Outlook 2003 Virtual memory full and slow start

[Zaephod]

Hello,
I am running WinXP MCE and MS Office 2003 with all the latest patches
on a Dell Inspiron 6000.
This configuration has been running fine until I installed HP print
drivers and Carbonite online backup.
Oulook now takes about 10 minutes to start, during which time the
virtual memory fills up ending with the usual system message asking to
increase it.
I uninstalled the HP and Carbonite software but with no chganges to
the problem.
It starts normally with the Outlook /safe switch and I can use it as
usual (all emails from my local .pst file are there), send and receive
emails fine.
I have disabled all plugins (basically the ESET NOD32 anti virus
addin) but this changes nothing. I have reinstalled Outlook completely
and reapplied SP3, still nothing.

Another thread mentioned a possible ATI video driver conflict so I
reinstalled the Dell ATI drives... nada.

There are many threads that raise this Outlook 2003 virtual memory
problem but none of them have posted the solution (apart from a
complete system reinstall....)

Any and all suggestions are most welcome,

Cheers!
James

 

[Mike]

Hello,
I am running WinXP MCE and MS Office 2003 with all the latest patches
on a Dell Inspiron 6000.
This configuration has been running fine until I installed HP print
drivers and Carbonite online backup.
Oulook now takes about 10 minutes to start, during which time the
virtual memory fills up ending with the usual system message asking to
increase it.
I uninstalled the HP and Carbonite software but with no chganges to
the problem.
It starts normally with the Outlook /safe switch and I can use it as
usual (all emails from my local .pst file are there), send and receive
emails fine.
I have disabled all plugins (basically the ESET NOD32 anti virus
addin) but this changes nothing. I have reinstalled Outlook completely
and reapplied SP3, still nothing.

Another thread mentioned a possible ATI video driver conflict so I
reinstalled the Dell ATI drives... nada.

There are many threads that raise this Outlook 2003 virtual memory
problem but none of them have posted the solution (apart from a
complete system reinstall....)

Any and all suggestions are most welcome,

Cheers!
James

How much RAM do you have? Have you thought about increasing your page
file size? This would allow the system to utilize your hard disk for
RAM type storage.

Mike

 

[Zaephod]

How much RAM do you have?  Have you thought about increasing your page
file size?  This would allow the system to utilize your hard disk for
RAM type storage.

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Thanks Mike but the system worked fine for 2 years in this
configuration until a week ago.
The specs are : 512MB RAM and 1.5Gb to 3GB Custom PF

The strange thing is it works fine starting Outlook with the /Safe
switch.

James