painfully slow Outlook 2000

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katiec

I am currently using Outlook 2000. When I go to create a new email, clicking
"New" it takes about 10 seconds to open. When it hit "Reply" it is about 10
seconds until a new window pops up so that I can type my message. When I
click on some larger emails to view them, it will take about 5 seconds to
respond and show me the message.
I have about 25 folders attached to my inbox, though they don't have a whole
lot in each one. I have about 1500 records in delete and send.
A co-worker has a slower computer than I do, with less memory. She has about
10,000 records in sent and delete, with a couple folders attached to her
inbox. When I sign in on her computer New opens right away, send works almost
immediately, and I have no trouble with viewing emails. Basically, on slower,
crappy computer her Outlook still works like it is supposed to, and we both
have Office 2000.

Does anyone know what could be the problem? Our tech guy doesn't know what
it is and has given up. Please help--it drives me crazy! :)
 
R

Ron P

katiec said:
I am currently using Outlook 2000. When I go to create a new email,
clicking
"New" it takes about 10 seconds to open. When it hit "Reply" it is about
10
seconds until a new window pops up so that I can type my message. When I
click on some larger emails to view them, it will take about 5 seconds to
respond and show me the message.
I have about 25 folders attached to my inbox, though they don't have a
whole
lot in each one. I have about 1500 records in delete and send.
A co-worker has a slower computer than I do, with less memory. She has
about
10,000 records in sent and delete, with a couple folders attached to her
inbox. When I sign in on her computer New opens right away, send works
almost
immediately, and I have no trouble with viewing emails. Basically, on
slower,
crappy computer her Outlook still works like it is supposed to, and we
both
have Office 2000.

Does anyone know what could be the problem? Our tech guy doesn't know what
it is and has given up. Please help--it drives me crazy! :)
Click to expand...

If you have deleted something, delete it and get rid of it. Create a backup
of your current PST file by exporting your messages to a backup PST file.
After doing that, empty out your deleted file folder completely (why keep
stuff that is supposed to be deleted). Pick a date that you consider to be
"current" and delete all messages that are older than that date (you do have
your backup if you need to retrieve something). Now, compact all folders.
Turn off Journaling if you have that turned on.

Don't use your Inbox to store messages. Move messages that you want to keep
to other folders appropriate to the content of the messages.

While you are at it, follow the above with a defragging of your hard drive.

Having around 1500 messages on your machine is really nothing at all. I had
over 20,000 messages which contained over 1 gigabyte in attachments and
experienced no slowdowns at all and I don't consider that I had a lot of
messages in the overall scheme of things.
 
D

DL

As posted here on a daily basis niether Import or Export is the correct way
to deal with OL data.
With OL closed the pst is simply copied.

You have something against Archiving?
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

You can call it BS but I look forward to your post when your import has caused loss of:

Custom forms
Connections between Contacts and Activities
Connections between Contacts and Calendar (birthdays and anniversaries)
Received dates on email messages
Distribution lists
etc.

Import/export is meant for translation of non-Outlook data to a format that OUtlook can understand. Do you *import* Word documents in a new version of Word? NO, you open them. So why would you poo-poo opening a native Outlook data file in Outlook? Shows how much you know.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Ron P asked:

| || As posted here on a daily basis niether Import or Export is the
|| correct way
|| to deal with OL data.
|| With OL closed the pst is simply copied.
|
| BS
 
D

DL

thanks

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
You can call it BS but I look forward to your post when your import has
caused loss of:

Custom forms
Connections between Contacts and Activities
Connections between Contacts and Calendar (birthdays and anniversaries)
Received dates on email messages
Distribution lists
etc.

Import/export is meant for translation of non-Outlook data to a format that
OUtlook can understand. Do you *import* Word documents in a new version of
Word? NO, you open them. So why would you poo-poo opening a native Outlook
data file in Outlook? Shows how much you know.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Ron P asked:

| || As posted here on a daily basis niether Import or Export is the
|| correct way
|| to deal with OL data.
|| With OL closed the pst is simply copied.
|
| BS
 
R

Ron P

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
You can call it BS but I look forward to your post when your import has
caused loss of:

Custom forms
Connections between Contacts and Activities
Connections between Contacts and Calendar (birthdays and anniversaries)
Received dates on email messages
Distribution lists
etc.

Import/export is meant for translation of non-Outlook data to a format that
OUtlook can understand. Do you *import* Word documents in a new version of
Word? NO, you open them. So why would you poo-poo opening a native Outlook
data file in Outlook? Shows how much you know.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Ron P asked:

| || As posted here on a daily basis niether Import or Export is the
|| correct way
|| to deal with OL data.
|| With OL closed the pst is simply copied.
|
| BS
 
R

Ron P

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
You can call it BS but I look forward to your post when your import has
caused loss of:

Custom forms
Connections between Contacts and Activities
Connections between Contacts and Calendar (birthdays and anniversaries)
Received dates on email messages
Distribution lists
etc.

Import/export is meant for translation of non-Outlook data to a format that
OUtlook can understand. Do you *import* Word documents in a new version of
Word? NO, you open them. So why would you poo-poo opening a native Outlook
data file in Outlook? Shows how much you know.


It ain't gonna happen....I have over 30 chronological backups of all my data
from all my programs.....how many do you have?
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Enough. And a daily ghost.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Ron P asked:

| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | You can call it BS but I look forward to your post when your import
| has caused loss of:
|
| Custom forms
| Connections between Contacts and Activities
| Connections between Contacts and Calendar (birthdays and
| anniversaries) Received dates on email messages
| Distribution lists
| etc.
|
| Import/export is meant for translation of non-Outlook data to a
| format that OUtlook can understand. Do you *import* Word documents
| in a new version of Word? NO, you open them. So why would you
| poo-poo opening a native Outlook data file in Outlook? Shows how
| much you know.
|
|
| It ain't gonna happen....I have over 30 chronological backups of all
| my data from all my programs.....how many do you have?
 
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