Re: Outlook 2003 IN Terrible Shape

Thank you, DL, and everyone who has chimed in. I haven't responded for a
couple of days because the problems seems to have disappeared, at least for
now. I can best guess that it was related to my changing Outlook's security
zone to "Internet" rather than "Restricted sites" (see below, actually, my
restricted sites are still there after all, if I navigate over to that), as
advised in one of those links Peter sent me. I remain clueless as to the
implications of doing such. Can someone tell me if the "Internet" choice is
a bad one to keep for Outlook 2003?

Also, would anyone care to comment briefly on the inadvisability of going
back to IE6, particularly since I don't much like IE7 anyway?

If and when this problem resurfaces, I will try the tests advised.

Thanks very much!
Dean

"Dean" <whooshbopbang4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks, Peter. The 2nd link seems like a perfect match for my
configuration, office 2002 but upgraded to outlook 2003 and IE7. I guess
that author is hoping Microsoft will deal with it soon. Is there any
reason to think they know or care?

The first link has a lot of stuff which somewhat confuses me. There's a
lot about spybot being the problem. I do have it under add/remove
programs, from my last anti-spam campaign, but am pretty sure it is not
active. I uninstalled it just in case. There was also something about
changing the security Zone to "Internet" rather than "Restricted sites",
so I did that, though I am clueless as to the implications of such - can
you advise? It looks like it wiped out my restricted sites and that seems
like a bad thing, though no one seemed to warn against it.

Other than that, there was reference to removing two updates, but most
seemed too concerned to do that. Also, there was something about going
back to IE6 which would be ok with me, if it's safe. I actually liked IE6
better. Any thoughts?

For now, the problem seems better, but it seems to be somewhat
intermittent, coming and going.

The only other thing that concerns me is that I had other slowness
symptoms such as opening e-mails and switching from sent items to in boxes
whereas everyone in these threads seems to only mention issues with slow
typing.

I'd appreciate any other help to sort through this maze. As I said, if
IE6 is safe enough and IE7 is necessary to have a problem, I would be fine
with going back to IE6.

Thanks again!
Dean


"Peter Foldes" <okf22@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Dean

See if this anything in here will help
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1669902&SiteID=17

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1669726&SiteID=17
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Peter

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"Dean" <whooshbopbang4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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