RSS Feeds

[G-Man]

In Outlook 2007, how do I turn off or remove RSS Feeds. Outlook is so slow
I can hardly use it. I deleted all the items in the RSS Feeds folder, but
can I disable it all together?

G-Man

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

You can remove them here: Tools menu > Accounts Settings > RSS Feeds tab

 

[G-Man]

Thanks, I did remove the feeds I had, but was wondering if there was a way
to remove/disable it all together. I guess if there is no items in RSS, it
is doing nothing?

There has got to be a way to speed this pig up. When I open outlook, it
takes over 5 minutes to send/receive my mail. Outlook 2003 was less than a
minute.

G-Man

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Have you installed all the relevant updates for Office 2007? I seem to
remember a few that increased performance a bit.

 

[G-Man]

All patched up.

G-Man

Have you installed all the relevant updates for Office 2007? I seem to
remember a few that increased performance a bit.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Hmmm, how often are you polling for mail? Also, have you tried the usual
things like checking your PST file for issues with ScanPST.EXE.

 

[G-Man]

Scanned file many times, no errors.. I even reduced the size by deleting
and compacting it. the PST was originally a 2003 file, so I ended up
creating a new PST with 2007, and just copied the messages I wanted to keep
over. So I have a really fresh .PST file.

I poll every minute, but getting through that first round takes forever.
You can watch as it pulls each message and it's grueling. I have about 15
accounts I poll. They are pop accounts that I receive logs from different
servers. The bulk of the messages come to one account. it's like 20-30
seconds a message!

G-Man

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Polling every minute, especially with 15 accounts, is too often and could be
the cause of the problem. Try setting it to every 5 minutes and see what
happens. POP really isn't designed to be a real-time message system.

If you want to make sure RSS isn't causing an issue edit the Send/Receive
Group (CTRL+ALT+S) that includes every account and remove RSS from it.


--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm

 

[Diane Poremsky]

it's the too frequent polling - try at least 8 min (I think 5 min is still
too low with 15 accts)

 

[G-Man]

Worked fine with 2003.

it's the too frequent polling - try at least 8 min (I think 5 min is still
too low with 15 accts)

 

[Diane Poremsky]

I'm surprised - too frequent checks locks up the mapi transport (if its not
finished before the next cycle starts), preventing mail from being received
until you reboot. D/l a large message, many messages, or a hiccup in the
internet connection and mail flow stops.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Just because you managed to get it to work doesn't mean it's a good idea.
I used to date a woman who would drive with her knees while eating cereal
from a bowl with a spoon. She managed to not crash into anything but....

One really big e-mail could cause your successive POP polls to overlap and
cause unfortunate results.

POP3 isn't designed to be real-time.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm

 

[G-Man]

Well. I'll try to sum this up in a condensed version

I loaded Vista a few weeks ago on my Dell Dimension XPS Gen 4. This is no
mediocre machine. 3.6 Ghz, with 4 gigs RAM, RAID 1 drive mirroring.
Original system was XP SP2.

After loading Vista business, I loaded office 2007.

Then I had a RAID drive go bad. Replaced it.

System still acting wierd at times. Outlook very slow.

Raid drive goes south again. Dell sends me TWO new drives. Installed
Friday night. Saurday drive goes again. After much searching, I find out
the onboard Intel RAID controller I have and Vista do not play well
together. Dell says, hey, we sold it with XPS, you are on your own!

So Saturday night, I go back to XP, and load office 2007. Success! Outlook
runs fine. Speed is back to normal. Drives are not crashing!

No more Vista on this system for me I guess. What a shame. I have Vista on
my new laptop and it works fine. I was hoping to move to Vista, but at
least I have my answers.

G-Man