slooow outlook

[pabo]

Some time ago my outlook started taking a long time to
open and close. Messages take a while to open and close
as well. It hangs when moving from one window to
another. Uses 100% CPU, then drops to nearly 0 when the
task is done. Just in one instance it went back to work
at normal speed, but the next time I opened it went back
to be as sluggish as it has been and I had not done
anything special; it just happened then went back to
slow. I tried the repair tool, reinstalled it, tried
various virus scans, deleted most messages, and anything
I could think of, but to no avail.
I use OL2000 sp3 on Windows XP Pro.

Please help!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Does it still happen when you start Outlook in safe mode?
Start-> Run; "path to outlook.exe" /safe

If it runs quickly now disable all your add-ins and see if it still fast. If
so; enable them one by one to determine the one that's causing you the
issues

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Navigation Pane Tips & Tricks
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

 

[Guest]

It gets fast again when I run it in safe mode, but there
was no improvement when running from the shortcut even
after disabling the add-ins.

-----Original Message-----
Does it still happen when you start Outlook in safe mode?
Start-> Run; "path to outlook.exe" /safe

If it runs quickly now disable all your add-ins and see if it still fast. If
so; enable them one by one to determine the one that's causing you the
issues

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Navigation Pane Tips & Tricks
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

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Some time ago my outlook started taking a long time to
open and close. Messages take a while to open and close
as well. It hangs when moving from one window to
another. Uses 100% CPU, then drops to nearly 0 when the
task is done. Just in one instance it went back to work
at normal speed, but the next time I opened it went back
to be as sluggish as it has been and I had not done
anything special; it just happened then went back to
slow. I tried the repair tool, reinstalled it, tried
various virus scans, deleted most messages, and anything
I could think of, but to no avail.
I use OL2000 sp3 on Windows XP Pro.

Please help!

.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Try disabling the Office integration from within your virrusscanner's
configuration.

In addition locate outcmd.dat and extend.dat and rename them to .old. This
will reset the Toolbar and the add-in configuration cache.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Navigation Pane Tips & Tricks
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

-----

It gets fast again when I run it in safe mode, but there
was no improvement when running from the shortcut even
after disabling the add-ins.

-----Original Message-----
Does it still happen when you start Outlook in safe mode?
Start-> Run; "path to outlook.exe" /safe

If it runs quickly now disable all your add-ins and see if it still fast. If
so; enable them one by one to determine the one that's causing you the
issues

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Navigation Pane Tips & Tricks
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

-----

Some time ago my outlook started taking a long time to
open and close. Messages take a while to open and close
as well. It hangs when moving from one window to
another. Uses 100% CPU, then drops to nearly 0 when the
task is done. Just in one instance it went back to work
at normal speed, but the next time I opened it went back
to be as sluggish as it has been and I had not done
anything special; it just happened then went back to
slow. I tried the repair tool, reinstalled it, tried
various virus scans, deleted most messages, and anything
I could think of, but to no avail.
I use OL2000 sp3 on Windows XP Pro.

Please help!

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