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One of the big problems folks have been having with Office 2007 is Outlook. Frankly, it can be a serious dog. Sluggish, serious performance lags. All the things you don’t want in your “latest and greatest” e-mail client. Looks like, thanks to Mack D. Male, there is a solution:
DELL has gotten back to me with a solution that seemed to work.
Following these steps:
1. Open Outlook as an Administrator by going to C:Programs/Microsoft Office/Office12 and right clicking on the Outlook exe program. Choose “Run as Administrator”.
2. Then once Outlook opens, go to Tools, then Trust Center, then Addins.
3. Click “Go…” at the bottom and uncheck Outlookaddins.
4. To maximize speed, they recommended to uncheck everything EXCEPT Windows Indexing, which, according to them, is the only useful addin anyway.
When I did this, the speed of my Outlook 2007 improved significantly; although, we will all have to wait for Microsoft to release the update that fixes this issue completely. I hope this helped you. Microsoft Discussion Groups Home
I did this last night and I think it’s working. Mack and I would both like to see what others find. Truth be told I didn’t disable Evernote clipping or ClearContext (of course!), but I still think there was a boost.
Give this tip a shot and let me know if it works for you. Best of all you can “undo” it very, very easily.
Oh WOW! Thank you so much!!!!
Great! it did work, thanks!
Great Thanks, It Works ..
Thanks! Just what I needed to clear up the 30+ second delay when switching folders.
WORKS…WORKS….WORKS…..get rid of those useless Addins….my Outlook 2007 works fast now ! ! !
Thanks very much. I’ve noticed a definite immediate improvement. I’m hoping it will allow for faster indexing as well.
Excellent!
I installed Outlook 2007 as a replacement to Thunderbird about a year ago because the mail indexing in Thunderbird was so slow, but then had constant problems with the speed of Outlook 2007!
This seems to have worked…..for now ;)
Thanks again!
Fabulous, thank you.
I spent 3 days with only my Iphone for exchange mail, I had done everything I could think of and find on net – nothing worked.
Your advice fixed it in a couple of minutes and a program restart.
I’m very grateful.
Mike
didnt notice any difference what so ever :((
Thanks for the tip. Don’t forget to keep the PDF pluggin enabled if you use it for your documents though.
Thanks for the tip. Don’t forget to leave the PDF pluggin enabled if you use Acrobat for anything within Outlook.
Major Major Major difference, I can finally upgrade from 2003 now that I have found this, thnaks for this tip, many thnaks
Oh man, thanks so much. After a year of complaining about how slow it made my whole system this is a life saver. What a HUGE difference!
Thanks for the solution, it worked!
I taught it was just a crappy client, it was just overloaded…
you rock so much. I just finally got the bravery to wade through and delete some stuff and found this while whining about wanting to keep my big folders.
This was amazing. Thanks so much.
Yes, It did work for me as well. after removing the marks from those addin except index so now oulook 2007 working smoothly and fast. thank you very much.
I think this may have worked, brilliant, just brilliant
Thanks for the tips. With this, the SP1 update for Vista and getting rid of the unneeded addins, my pc is running smoothly with Outlook.
@ ennuianomie, Xobni works well with Outlook 2007, you should check it out again.
http://www.xobni.com/
I tried to run the program as an administrator but I dont know the administrator password and it wont let me just use a blank password, but I never had a password in the first place, how do I get around this?
Jeez! My Outlook is like F16 now…