My new Dell 6400 with Vista Home Premium has plenty of power and 2 G Ram andeverything runs like lightning except Outlook. I Googled "Outlook runs slow" and bingo...up came tons of sites with people in the same boat.
Check out these couple of posts I copied below. By the way, my system won't let me uncheck the Outlook Addins that the posts below advise, as I get a message saying can't do, connected to registry!? How to work around this? Are they XP maybe that this is being tried on?
Or, I could just uninstall Outlook add-ins but, I would rather uncheck them then just uninstall a program if I could.
Anyway, mine runs slow enough that my text cannot keep up with typing and believe me I type slowly: If I can't figure out how to uncheck them then I will uninstall Outlook Addins. My pst file is only 11,000KB by the way.
Maybe the following will help those of us with Outlook running so slow and I hope the Advanced computer skill people on this site can sort through this and help those of us with slow Outlook problems through this. It appears Dell has their own particular problem with Outlook Add-In Setup from Cyberlink connected with Media center and then there is the ccase of all the other Add-Ins it seems.
Here is the link: http://forums.microsoft.com/technet/...&tf=0&pageid=8
Here are a few posts:
Ernie lovecars
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Re: Office Outlook 2007 VERY SLOW!
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I am having the same problem, except I'm running the release version of Vista Hope Premium and the Release version of Office 2007....
Very Slooooowwwww hickups...
In other words the CPU goes from 2% to 90% every 4 or 5 seconds...
The only way I can run pretty well is running Outlook in safe mode...
I've turned off all plug ins that I could find, also turn off RSS's, I don't know what else to turn off.
Looking at the task manager only shows Outlook.exe hogging up the CPU cycles...
It's pretty agravating, specially since this is a new computer..
NEVER MIND......
I was searcing the Dell Forums and found out that you need to uninstall the OutlookAddin Setup from Cyberlink, it's a part of MediaDirect. It suppossed to let you view your emails etc without turning on the computer..... I guess the bug were never worked out.
So.. Now I'll go back to turning on features to see if Outlook behaves...
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Ernest Aguilar
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09 Feb 2007, 12:11 AM UTC
Boston22
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I spent 2 hours with Dell Tier 3 support and we can up with the same conclusion. You need to open outlook as an administrator (by right clicking on the exe file in the Office 12 folder). Then, go to tools/trust center/addins. then click on "go..." at the bottom. I would uncheck outlookaddins. That solved all of my problems! To be extra safe, and to maximize speed, I unchecked everything except indexing (which is the only useful one). That solved my problems. Good luck to everyone!!
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09 Feb 2007, 8:54 AM UTC
Bart-Rennes
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Re: Office Outlook 2007 VERY SLOW!
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Boston22 wrote:
You need to open outlook as an administrator (by right clicking on the exe file in the Office 12 folder). Then, go to tools/trust center/addins. then click on "go..." at the bottom. I would uncheck outlookaddins. That solved all of my problems! To be extra safe, and to maximize speed, I unchecked everything except indexing (which is the only useful one). That solved my problems. Good luck to everyone!!
YES IT WORKS ! i have also a Dell with 2go ram...
Thanks a lot...
Anyway, that is what I stumbled on........ Sorry if I have broken any Forum rules, but I am just trying to shed light on what I see as a significant and growing problem.
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