Outlook 2003 very slow to open

[Carmel Coate]

Outlook has been fine until very recently. Now extremely slow to open (up
to 5 mins). I thought it might be the datafile was too large so created a
new datafile, but still slow. Any solutions? - Carmel

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Usually this is caused by an add-in that you have installed.
Does it load more quickly in Outlook Safe Mode?
Start-> Run; outlook.exe /safe

To troubleshoot add-ins see;
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/88

 

[Carmel Coate]

Yes it loaded faster in Safe Mode - the only new thing is Outlook Connector.
Can you tell me how to remove this?
Thanks
Carmel

 

[Roady [MVP]]

If you are not using the Outlook Connector, you can uninstall it via Control
Panel-> Add/Remove Programs (Windows XP) or via Uninstall a Program (Windows
Vista and Windows 7).
Make sure you first remove any Outlook Connector account from your mail
profile in Outlook via Tools-> E-mail Accounts-> Next

However, the Outlook Connector is not known to cause such startup delays.
Did you troubleshoot the other add-ins already as per the link I gave you in
my original reply?

 

[Carmel Coate]

Yes I did but no change to startup
Regards Carmel