Outlook 2003 poor performance & hangs on my new Dell

[rleavitt]

received my new dell 4600 (2.8 GHZ, 1GB RAM, XPPro) 3
weeks ago and Outlook has been unbearable. Meanwhile,
it's performing great on my 6 mo old laptop.

Symptoms:
1. poor performance. Highlighting a message takes up to
30 seconds to appear in the reading pane. Shifting
messages causes a hang 1 in 10 times.

2. Not responding. It usually hangs within 15 minutes
of use.

My actions so far
- reinstalled (repaired) Office twice from CD
- used the scanpost utility to repair my .pst files
- exited my Mcfee virus scan in case it might be somehow
interfering (email seems to download fine, it's reading
moving around that cause all the headaches.)
- Most recently: reset XP's state back to the day I
bought it. This caused Outlook to act like it did on day
one (setup new account, etc.)

None of these have helped so far.

Suggestions?

 

[Tedd Riggs]

Do you have the Business Contact Manager installed on 2003 ? That can slow
things way down at times.Other then that and PST files that are too large
(ie greater then about 1.7 GB) I cannot think of what might be causing it.
What does the CPU utilization look like when you are running Outlook ? Also
do you have ActiveSync installed ? (This should not cause a slowdown except
when syncing)
Tedd