Outlook 2003 - large volume, slow

[Richard Fangnail]

My boss at work has 1,000+ emails in his Inbox (many have attachments)
and lots more in other folders. Would this explain why Outlook is
very slow?

Or is there something we can do besides delete messages?

 

[Brian Tillman]

My boss at work has 1,000+ emails in his Inbox (many have attachments)
and lots more in other folders. Would this explain why Outlook is
very slow?

Likely not. Are you using an Exchange, an IMAP, or a POP account?

Or is there something we can do besides delete messages?

Depends. You haven't supplied enough data to make a guess. You need to be
more explicit in describing the symptoms and exactly when they happen.

 

[DL]

Archive?
what is the size of the data file?

 

[Richard Fangnail]

Likely not. Are you using an Exchange, an IMAP, or a POP account?


Depends. You haven't supplied enough data to make a guess. You need to be
more explicit in describing the symptoms and exactly when they happen.

In Outlook, when you click on something, it will do nothing for 5-10
seconds, and then suddenly do what it's supposed to do. Other apps
don't do that.

The "sent" folder has 5,000+ items but I don't know if that causes
slowness.

I just noticed he has an add-in program called Auto-Mate and that is
very likely causing a problem. I don't know how to turn it off.

 

[Brian Tillman]

In Outlook, when you click on something, it will do nothing for 5-10
seconds, and then suddenly do what it's supposed to do. Other apps
don't do that.

The "sent" folder has 5,000+ items but I don't know if that causes
slowness.

I just noticed he has an add-in program called Auto-Mate and that is
very likely causing a problem. I don't know how to turn it off.

In the Add-In Manager or COM Add-Ins wizard. Tools>Options>Other>Advanced
Options

 

[David]

Archive?
what is the size of the data file?




I was having the same problem. There was another post that suggested deleting or renaming the file outcmd.dat. Outlook recreates it automatically. I did that and it worked. Where it was taking 30 seconds to open an email, it now takes 1.

 

[DL]

http://www.pergenex.com/auto-mate/

In Outlook, when you click on something, it will do nothing for 5-10
seconds, and then suddenly do what it's supposed to do. Other apps
don't do that.

The "sent" folder has 5,000+ items but I don't know if that causes
slowness.

I just noticed he has an add-in program called Auto-Mate and that is
very likely causing a problem. I don't know how to turn it off.