Hard drive runs continuously when Outlook is running.

[Skipster]

How do I stop Outlook from constantly running and slowing down my PC
tremendously? The hard drive never stops, and it takes forever for anything
to happen. When I do a search in Contacts, it may take 5 minutes to have the
name pop up. Help!!!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Without any details there could be many reasons for this. A heavily
fragmented hard disk, truncation taking place, a search indexer accessing
Outlook, etc...

 

[VanguardLH]

How do I stop Outlook from constantly running and slowing down my PC
tremendously? The hard drive never stops, and it takes forever for anything
to happen. When I do a search in Contacts, it may take 5 minutes to have the
name pop up. Help!!!

Do you have any file indexing utilities installed and running?

Google Desktop
Microsoft Search
Copernic
just to name a few possibilities

If so, either uninstall them or configure them to NOT scan your e-mails
(the .pst file).

Yet tried disabling the e-mail scanning feature in your anti-virus
program? That isn't sufficient and instead you have to uninstall and
then do a custom install where you do NOT include their e-mail scanner.
AVG is like that. I think CA was, too.

 

[Pat Willener]

Are you running Outlook in cached Exchange mode? That could be
constantly synchronizing Exchange data with your OST file.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Constantly? Neih, only the changes after the initial synchronization has
completed. You must be having a very high level of mutations per minute for
it to be constantly syncing ;-)