On 5 Sep 2006 09:37:10 -0700, "ship" gmail.com> wrote:

Outlook 2003, by itself, is not a particularly resource intensive
application. If you simply add more power to the shields, you may be
disappointed in how little that, by itself, improves performance.

You should first determine where the choke point is.

I'd start by temporarily disabling all those rules and see what
improvement you get from that alone. If it's substantial, you may want
to consider whether you actually need that many riles and/or if you
could get by with less, or managing your mail differently.

Next, see what happens when you disable the feature in Norton that
scans incoming mail. It may speed things up considerably.

Once you have a handle on what's causing your performance issue, you
could make a more informed decision on what to do about it.

A_C

outlook is very slow at downloading mail thanks to MAPI. Assuming you have
less than a gb, more ram might help, but not a lot - it generally is the
better investment though.

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Turn off Cached mode (if you are connected to an Exchange server).

--
Dab

Cut off: yourhead to respond

"ship" gmail.com> wrote in message
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Dab hotmail.com> wrote:

I'd disagree with this, in general. Cached Exchange mode enhances the
*apparent* performance of the User Interface because it can comminicate with
the Exchange server at a different rate that the user manipulates messages.
Messages in the cache already don't need to be otained from the server so
performance is improved. However, the OP didn't name his type of account,
so Cached Exchange mode may not even be applicable.

ship wrote:

Try using IMAP instead of POP. It will keep the mail on your server (as
well as keep local copies if you want) so you don't have to copy your
Outlook file from computer to computer.

Outlook was always slow and buggy when I was using it. It is ok at first,
but once you add more email accounts and the email piles up then it becomes
sluggish. Maybe try Thunderbird, a free replacement to Outlook:

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

It's not perfect either, but it's pretty good.

My experience with all versions of Outlook I have used (97, 98, 2000,
2003) is that what slows it down most is (a) a bad connection to the
mail server, or (b) a slow or overloaded mail server.

If you'd use IMAP you wouldn't need to download the messages, and
probably your performance problem would be solved.

However, I have found that Thunderbird interacts much better with IMAP
than Outlook, so I use OL only where I need to access Exchange Server.

ship wrote:

ship wrote:

How about using descent rules at the server level to fend off some of
the spam before it gets to you. Try to keep your pst below one gig and
scanpst is a last resort. Might also create a clean profile/pst as
they can get trashed, I had one wouldn't delete deleted items... what a
pain. Also if you have google desktop and norton and XPPro indexing
all at the same time, nothing will help. Try rebooting and killing off
google desktop and Norton, then rerun outlook and see what kind of
speen increase you get. I have quite a few addresses and sites and
understand the frustrations. I also have tried other tools and they
all have problems, outlook works when it works, but when it doesn't -
what a pain.

Software:
- Outlook2003
- WinXP Pro (SP2)
- Google Desktop
- Norton (on one PC) /McAfee Virus Scan (on another PC)

Hi

I am looking for ways to SPEED UP Outlook!

Should I:
a) Increase RAM OR
b) put in a dual processor ??

As webmaster, I am using Outlook to handle huge amounts of mail.
Quite a lot of it is unavoidable legit stuff (receipts, feedback forms
etc)
though I confess quite a lot of spam/viruses etc.

I would try somewhere like microsoft.public.outlook....

You are unlikely to get the best advice here...

I would start with disabling add-ins especially your virus scanner
integrating with Outlook.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

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"ship" gmail.com> wrote in message
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Software:
- Outlook2003
- WinXP Pro (SP2)
- Google Desktop
- Norton (on one PC) /McAfee Virus Scan (on another PC)

Hi

I am looking for ways to SPEED UP Outlook!