PST Files

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Dennis

I have a freind who uses outlook 2000.
He is currently at about 400megs on the pst file.
He can open outlook, he can read, sort, view and download
more email. But the second he double clicks on an email
to open it to respond..etc. Outlook locks up, window
error message say... dangerously low on system resources.
He is running 98 with the latest patches, 25 gig of free
space on the hdd, and 512megs of ram.

Im of the opinion that its just to large of a pst for the
computer/os to handle. Ive had him clean it up, used to
be 712megs in size. He was okay till about 2 weeks ago.
No idea what what changed. I ran scanpst.exe on his
file..said some problem..nothing major and did a repair.
The the problem still exists.. any ideas? Im about to
recommend he go to XP, and 2002 outlook, but not sure
that will work... any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
Dennis said:
I have a freind who uses outlook 2000.
He is currently at about 400megs on the pst file. ....snip...
Im of the opinion that its just to large of a pst for the
computer/os to handle.
Click to expand...

Your opinion would be wrong. PSTs can be up to 1.83 Gb, with usually
error-free operations up to about 1.25-1.5 Gb (about three times bigger than
what your friend has).

Tell him to rdisable all startup programs (with MSCONFIG) or by holding down
the Shift key while WIndows is booting and then see if he has a problem. If
not, then the fault probably lies with one of the programs he starts at boot
time. Reenable the startup programs one at a time until the problem recurs
and you'll probably fid the culprit.
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