Outlook 2003 Painfully Slow!

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Pete McAlpine

After installing Outlook 2003, use of Outlook became
painfully slow. True, I do have a large .pst file
500,000. Even simple things like moving an email to
another file folder takes forever and I get little
messages like "Outlook 2003 Preparing View"! Why,
Outlook use to be instantaneous.

What is the answer to this? If no answer, what do I have
to do to remove Outlook 2003.

Is .pst file size a factor? Do I need to keep the .pst
file smaller!? How would that be an improvement?

Are things going on in the background with Outlook 2003
that can shut-off? Something is very different since 2003
installed. I scanned for viruses and covert
programs....no problem there.

Pete McAlpine
 
I believe the max is 2GB, so that shouldn't be your problem. Still, the
smaller the faster. You should periodically empty your deleted items and
set up autoarchive for really old messages that your're very unlikely to
need day-to-day. In any event, it shouldn't be that much slower than the
prior version (if noticeable at all). Did you change OS or anything else at
the same time?

Is Outlook the only program that's slow? Do the other Office applications
work OK? Have you tried a HUGE Excel spreadsheet or Access database or Word
document? How much stuff do you keep open at the same time?

As far as returning to 2002 or whatever, you should be careful. If you read
through this newsgroup, you'll find someone who's been unable to use the
send/receive button ever since. Nobody's come up with a good answer to the
problem, but the suspicion is something left behind by 2003.
 
In any event, it shouldn't be that much slower than the
prior version (if noticeable at all). Did you change OS
or anything else at the same time?
Click to expand...

Pete Sez: No, nothing else changed.
Is Outlook the only program that's slow? Do the other
Click to expand...
Office applications work OK? Have you tried a HUGE Excel
spreadsheet or Access database or Word
document? How much stuff do you keep open at the same
Click to expand...
time?>>>>>>>>

Pete Sez: You mean I should introduce a huge spread
sheet or database? No, I have not done that. Everything
else closed.

PETE SEZ: I used the MicroSoft task manager to find-out
what all the action in the background is! MSKSrver.exe
RUNS ALL the time at 85 to 95 CPU and the CPU total usage
is near 100% ALL the time with nothing major running but
MSKSrver.exe! Whenever I try to do anything else, the
new application takes forever to get going as it must
compete with MSKSrver.exe! Why is that database server
working all the time? What is it doing? I do not
use "Favorite Folders" or "Business Contact Manager" yet,
though those are areas show in MAIL, empty. I don't have
the most powerful PC in the world, but I do have 500
megahertz and 256 memory. When I disable MSKSrver.exe,
everything works great UNTIL I try to download mail.
Apparently, that won't work without MSKSrver.exe.

HELP! I can't get my work done!

Pete McAlpine
 
I had the same unbearably slow email and lots of timeout errors - as I read these many messages on slow mail (about the first dozen posts), it occurred to me that maybe my email account was messed up - after trying a few things to no avail, I remembered that PC-cillin had forced some changes so it could intercept the mail. So, I changed back to the original config and it seems to fetch the mail quickly and without errors after several tries.
 
I recently upgraded one of our Execs to Outlook 2003 and he had the sam
issue you describe, horrible slowdowns. His Laptop was actually
little faster than what you have and had more ram. We put his accoun
on a P3 1.2 with 512 and the issue disappeared. We just bought him
new machine copied his entire profile over and its running without
hickup. I think Outlook 2003 is a resource hog
 
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