Slow to move email attachments in a To-Do List task in Outlook 200

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Hushpuppy

Hi,
I use my Outlook tasks to keep track of my work. I generally copy all my
email messages into a particular task that that email is concerned with.

Sometimes I need to move email attachments around. This worked fine in
Outlook 2000 at my old job.

Here, at my new job, we are running Office 2007. This is a new install.
Say I open a task. Grabbing a mail message icon and moving it to another
line within that task takes a reeealllllyyyy looooonnnnnngggg time- like 1-2
minutes! I have created a new local .pst file and put a Tasks folder there,
and copied my current tasks into it, then opened a task, and tried to move an
email message icon- no help.

Is this a known issue? Thanks.
-Mike Schwager
 
Do you have all the latest updates for Office 2007 installed? Outlook 2007
had a lot of slowness issues when it was first released.
 
I have checked with my Windows administrators... Yes, I do have all the
latest updates.

I should mention that I save copies of a lot of my emails into my individual
tasks, so I can annotate the notes about my work with the appropriate
conversations. The reactions of my coworkers indicate to me that this is not
done too often, so maybe not a lot of people experience this problem.
However, I did this with Outlook 2000 at my old job and it worked fine, over
a long period of time.
 
I'm pretty sure that even with the updates, Outlook 2007 is slower in general
than Outlook 2000 was.
 
In this case, Outlook 2007 is not slower. It's positively post-glacial...
what took 5 seconds (or less) in Outlook 2000 is taking a minute or two in
2007. It's even that slow when the Task's pst folder is local to the
machine... :-(
 
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