Why is Office 2007/Outlook suddenly sluggish and non responsive?

[Rob Currens]

I have a new (3-07) Compaq running Vista and have upgraded to Office 2007.
After a while I noticed that Searching Contacts failed to work properly, then
I'd get a
"whited out" screen with a message in the upper left border saying Outlook
nit responding. I then installed Business Contact Manager and the entire
program has slowed down my computer entirely and has acted very unstable.

Is something I can do to correct this, like a re-install or Disc De-frag?
I'm primarily a MAC user and am used to things just working. I'd appreciate
any help!

Thanks,

Rob Currens

 

[ryan]

I don't know how to help but I have noticed the same thing on my computer
when it comes to checking my hotmail. it takes a few secs for the outlook
to think

 

[Luther]

I don't know how to help but I have noticed the same thing on my computer
when it comes to checking my hotmail. it takes a few secs for the outlook
to think






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One thing to do is check what services are running in the background.

My wife complained that Outlook was unbearably slow, and with her
login Outlook was taking twice as long to do anything. I checked the
running process and found a Media Player service using up 50% of CPU.
I check its options and Media Player was configured to pull a bunch of
information from the network. I turned all those things off and the
service stopped noticably using CPU.

The other thing I noticed is that for the first three days after
upgrading, the Windows Search Protocol Handler (or something with a
similar name) was busy indexing the everything in Outlook and BCM.