Re: Outlook 2003 IN Terrible Shape

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Uninstall and reinstall will do nothing that Detect and Repair didn't do.

Since you state that your hard drive is 80BG, I would guess that you should look to the amount of RAM that is installed on your machine. Additional RAM is relatively cheap. When you have Outlook open you are using a large amount of RAM and the computer is constantly paging due lack of RAM. When hard drive space is low, the paging is further hampered.

Just a thought.
"Dean" <whooshbopbang4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:WPCdnaqqI_oHfPvbnZ2dnUVZ_sCinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I added the following to an old thread I had done and got no response for awhile, so I think that, maybe, I should have posted as a new item, so here goes:

My outlook has been exhibiting more and more delays. As K Orland originally recommended, I did detect and repair, then scanpst.exe, and then compacted my PST but it hasn't helped. My Outlook is so slow as to be almost useless now. I can type say, 5 words, at a time, then have to wait 30 seconds for it to catch up, etc, etc.

Does anyone have any helpful ideas for me, PLEASE!!! I did later notice that I only had about 2.7GB left on my hard drive of about 80GB and so I ran the equivalent of scandisk. then deleted so that I would have more than 15% free which then allowed me to run defrag. Even with only 2.7G free, Outlook was the only program exhibiting slowness symptoms that I could notice. Still things are no better.

If the problem is likely in Outlook rather than in my PST, does it make sense to uninstall Outlook, then reinstall and import the PST?

Thanks much!
Dean


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