Unusual search output behaviour from Outlook XP

H

Hong

Outlook XP SP2 with Exchange 2003

The following annoying search output behaviour was experienced

1. On a target shared (or personal) folder of several thousand items, invoke
Find on Outlook with a search string
2. Start seeing first interim search output with 20-Dec-2004, then items
older than Dec-2004
3. Next seeing the newer lot with Jan-2005 Feb-2005 etc. then a screen
shuffle until the complete serach output is produced with correct
chronological order.

I tried out against one Public Folder Favorite with 17,000+ items but no
such pattern occurred where I got search output from one single display
refresh.

The affected system claimed Outlook XP SP2 search worked 'correctly' with
latest-first-older-last search output against Exchange 5.5 and OWA client
also worked fine with Exchange 2003.Don't know of the behaviour from Outlook
2003 from this customer

Is there a registry setting or Outlook file settings in "Documents and
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook" that can suppress the temporary
search output, so only displaying the final search result?

Thanks

Hong
 
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