Finally a real tip to speed up Outlook 2007!
March 14, 2007 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Jobs
One of the big problems folks have been having with Office 2007 is Outlook. Frankly, it can be a serious dog. Sluggish, serious performance lags. All the things you don’t want in your “latest and greatest” e-mail client. Looks like, thanks to Mack D. Male, there is a solution:
DELL has gotten back to me with a solution that seemed to work.
Following these steps:
1. Open Outlook as an Administrator by going to C:Programs/Microsoft Office/Office12 and right clicking on the Outlook exe program. Choose “Run as Administrator”.
2. Then once Outlook opens, go to Tools, then Trust Center, then Addins.
3. Click “Go…” at the bottom and uncheck Outlookaddins.
4. To maximize speed, they recommended to uncheck everything EXCEPT Windows Indexing, which, according to them, is the only useful addin anyway.
When I did this, the speed of my Outlook 2007 improved significantly; although, we will all have to wait for Microsoft to release the update that fixes this issue completely. I hope this helped you. Microsoft Discussion Groups Home
I did this last night and I think it’s working. Mack and I would both like to see what others find. Truth be told I didn’t disable Evernote clipping or ClearContext (of course!), but I still think there was a boost.
Give this tip a shot and let me know if it works for you. Best of all you can “undo” it very, very easily.
Thanks. The fix for Outlook 2007 worked!
I just did the changes and saw a significant improvement in start time. It also made my system run smother as well. The only plug-ins I left was Plaxo and Google Indexing. Thanks for the post.
You’re welcome guys I’m glad it worked. I think it worked for me as well. But given the other beta stuff I’m testing, well I take system weirdness in stride.
I did this, and didnt notice any significant improvement, my system is really slow with outlook, any suggestions anyone?
It really help ! Try it. Thank you for this hint.
I did this and it worked well.thanks
This is great, thanks. Disabled everything apart from the Indexing service, and the OneNote add-on. Instant improvement.
I’m just about to restart it, to see if the load time’s decreased.
This has worked a treat. I have been trauling the web for a solution to the pitiful lags I’ve been experiencing with Outlook ‘07, and this is the only fix that really worked! Thank you! I have unchecked everything except indexing, and now I can’t believe how quickly outlook runs. Time and time again, restart after restart, Outlook is faster. And so is my system. Thanks again!
I’m glad that this worked for all of you! I think I need to take my own advice and disable more stuff too … man sometimes Outlook just grinds to a freakin’ halt.
Huge improvement. Thank you – outlook was making a Dell XPS 4G dual core system pause for about 10 seconds sometimes and sometimes 4 – 5 minutes during startup. What were they thinking?
The biggest slowdown starting Outlook is getting the “Inbox” up.
I have been using the following macro loaded into the “This Outlook Session” folder in the VBE to make Outlook load ‘instantly’.
It basically copies all of the “Inbox” messages into a sub folder called “Inbox_Archive” when you close Outllook. If the folder does not exist, it is created. To go back and look at ‘Old’ messages, you just click on the “Inbox_Archive” folder.
Pretty easy.
Private Sub Application_Quit()
Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
Dim myNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim myInbox As Outlook.Folder
Dim myDestFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim myItems As Outlook.Items
Dim myItem As Object
Dim folder_exists As Boolean
Dim inbox_Folders As Integer
Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace(”MAPI”)
Set myInbox = myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
inbox_Folders = myInbox.Folders.Count
For Count = 1 To inbox_Folders
If myInbox.Folders.Item(Count) = “Inbox_Archive” Then
folder_exists = True
End If
Next
If folder_exists = False Then
Set myDestFolder = myInbox.Folders.Add(”Inbox_Archive”)
End If
Set myItems = myInbox.Items
Set myDestFolder = myInbox.Folders(”Inbox_Archive”)
For Each myItem In myItems
myItem.Move myDestFolder
Next
End Sub
Sorry
This was the original code.
The new code is …
Private Sub Application_Quit()
Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
Dim myNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim myInbox As Outlook.Folder
Dim myDestFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim myItems As Outlook.Items
Dim myItem As Object
Dim folder_exists As Boolean
Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace(”MAPI”)
Set myInbox = myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
For Count = 1 To myInbox.Folders.Count
If myInbox.Folders.Item(Count) = “Inbox_Archive” Then
folder_exists = True
End If
Next
If folder_exists = False Then
Set myDestFolder = myInbox.Folders.Add(”Inbox_Archive”)
End If
Set myItems = myInbox.Items
Set myDestFolder = myInbox.Folders(”Inbox_Archive”)
For Each myItem In myItems
myItem.Move myDestFolder
Next
End Sub
Just a bit quicker.
Most of the items in the add on list say they cannot be changed. Any ideas?
Worked a treat here. I disabled everything!
I disabled everything except for the windows indexing and it worked great, but now I don’t see the new mail desktop alerts pop up. Anybody else have this problem?
I tried the tips and i do notice a difference in performance. can anyone tell me why is seems that Office 2007 is a memory hog?
I did it and then got a message that Application was experimeted a serius problem and needed to restart the application. I did, and when starting asked to re start the Mc Affee Add in, so checked that one and worked OK.
I bought Vista and Office 2007 when they first came out. Outlook has been getting progressively slower and I could never find out why. I found this article and it improved my Outlook response significantly. I run Outlook, Business Contact Manager, and Outlook Connector and I do not have any significant problems anymore. Also, I was surprised to find the “addins” that had been assigned to Outlook and could be deleted without apparent affect.
Thanks a million for the information!
After getting the latest SP3 XP pack, and using this trick with Outlook 2007, Office is finally working at an acceptable speed to upgrade my office to.
Even though I’m a bit late on posting to this article, I still wanted to say thank you!
Thank you… I’ve seen this tip on a few sites and I just implemented it. Outlook 2007 now runs like any other program… quick to start.. quick to quit. Thanks a million to everyone that’s putting this tip out there…
btw… there’s a lot of chat about Xenobi. out there. Prior to this fix Xenobi made outlook unworkable and infuriating. However.. it may function more efficiently now with this fix… i’ll let you know.
Jeez! My Outlook is like F16 now…
I tried to run the program as an administrator but I dont know the administrator password and it wont let me just use a blank password, but I never had a password in the first place, how do I get around this?
Thanks for the tips. With this, the SP1 update for Vista and getting rid of the unneeded addins, my pc is running smoothly with Outlook.
@ ennuianomie, Xobni works well with Outlook 2007, you should check it out again.
http://www.xobni.com/
I think this may have worked, brilliant, just brilliant
Yes, It did work for me as well. after removing the marks from those addin except index so now oulook 2007 working smoothly and fast. thank you very much.
you rock so much. I just finally got the bravery to wade through and delete some stuff and found this while whining about wanting to keep my big folders.
This was amazing. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the solution, it worked!
I taught it was just a crappy client, it was just overloaded…
Oh man, thanks so much. After a year of complaining about how slow it made my whole system this is a life saver. What a HUGE difference!
Major Major Major difference, I can finally upgrade from 2003 now that I have found this, thnaks for this tip, many thnaks
Thanks for the tip. Don’t forget to leave the PDF pluggin enabled if you use Acrobat for anything within Outlook.
Thanks for the tip. Don’t forget to keep the PDF pluggin enabled if you use it for your documents though.
didnt notice any difference what so ever :((
Fabulous, thank you.
I spent 3 days with only my Iphone for exchange mail, I had done everything I could think of and find on net – nothing worked.
Your advice fixed it in a couple of minutes and a program restart.
I’m very grateful.
Mike