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Dave Ring
Day before yesterday, my wife complained that Outlook at her office had
slowed down to a crawl while loading, and as a result she couldn't read
her email. This sounded like problems I had encountered with Excel
slowing to a crawl on closing, which were due to accumulation of junk in
a toolbar preferences file. Sure enough, I found hints on the web that
trashing the file "outcmd.dat" could cure slow loading of Outlook, and
this worked immediately when she tried it.
The problem is that the same pref files that accumulate crud also
contain valuable customization. When you trash them, that gets lost and
has to be re-created. The second level solution is to re-customize
newly created default preference files, save these, and use them to
replace bloated files periodically.
But this would be easier if I could simple put the customized prefs
files in a "personal defaults" folder, where they would override the
plain vanilla defaults whenever a prefs file is trashed. Is there such
a folder that I am missing (for either Excel or Outlook)?
Dave Ring
slowed down to a crawl while loading, and as a result she couldn't read
her email. This sounded like problems I had encountered with Excel
slowing to a crawl on closing, which were due to accumulation of junk in
a toolbar preferences file. Sure enough, I found hints on the web that
trashing the file "outcmd.dat" could cure slow loading of Outlook, and
this worked immediately when she tried it.
The problem is that the same pref files that accumulate crud also
contain valuable customization. When you trash them, that gets lost and
has to be re-created. The second level solution is to re-customize
newly created default preference files, save these, and use them to
replace bloated files periodically.
But this would be easier if I could simple put the customized prefs
files in a "personal defaults" folder, where they would override the
plain vanilla defaults whenever a prefs file is trashed. Is there such
a folder that I am missing (for either Excel or Outlook)?
Dave Ring