[GEOFF]

My new Dell 6400 with Vista Home Premium has plenty of power and 2 G Ram and everything runs like lightning except Outlook. I Googled "Outlook runs slow" and bingo...up came tons of sites with people in the same boat.

Check out these couple of posts I copied below. By the way, my system won't let me uncheck the Outlook Addins that the posts below advise, as I get a message saying can't do, connected to registry!? How to work around this? Are they XP maybe that this is being tried on?

Or, I could just uninstall Outlook add-ins but, I would rather uncheck them then just uninstall a program if I could.

Anyway, mine runs slow enough that my text cannot keep up with typing and believe me I type slowly: If I can't figure out how to uncheck them then I will uninstall Outlook Addins. My pst file is only 11,000KB by the way.

Maybe the following will help those of us with Outlook running so slow and I hope the Advanced computer skill people on this site can sort through this and help those of us with slow Outlook problems through this. It appears Dell has their own particular problem with Outlook Add-In Setup from Cyberlink connected with Media center and then there is the ccase of all the other Add-Ins it seems.

Here is the link: http://forums.microsoft.com/technet/...&tf=0&pageid=8

Here are a few posts:

Ernie lovecars


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I am having the same problem, except I'm running the release version of Vista Hope Premium and the Release version of Office 2007....

Very Slooooowwwww hickups...

In other words the CPU goes from 2% to 90% every 4 or 5 seconds...

The only way I can run pretty well is running Outlook in safe mode...

I've turned off all plug ins that I could find, also turn off RSS's, I don't know what else to turn off.

Looking at the task manager only shows Outlook.exe hogging up the CPU cycles...

It's pretty agravating, specially since this is a new computer..

NEVER MIND......

I was searcing the Dell Forums and found out that you need to uninstall the OutlookAddin Setup from Cyberlink, it's a part of MediaDirect. It suppossed to let you view your emails etc without turning on the computer..... I guess the bug were never worked out.

So.. Now I'll go back to turning on features to see if Outlook behaves...




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09 Feb 2007, 12:11 AM UTC
Boston22


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I spent 2 hours with Dell Tier 3 support and we can up with the same conclusion. You need to open outlook as an administrator (by right clicking on the exe file in the Office 12 folder). Then, go to tools/trust center/addins. then click on "go..." at the bottom. I would uncheck outlookaddins. That solved all of my problems! To be extra safe, and to maximize speed, I unchecked everything except indexing (which is the only useful one). That solved my problems. Good luck to everyone!!


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09 Feb 2007, 8:54 AM UTC
Bart-Rennes


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Boston22 wrote:
You need to open outlook as an administrator (by right clicking on the exe file in the Office 12 folder). Then, go to tools/trust center/addins. then click on "go..." at the bottom. I would uncheck outlookaddins. That solved all of my problems! To be extra safe, and to maximize speed, I unchecked everything except indexing (which is the only useful one). That solved my problems. Good luck to everyone!!





YES IT WORKS ! i have also a Dell with 2go ram...

Thanks a lot...

Anyway, that is what I stumbled on........ Sorry if I have broken any Forum rules, but I am just trying to shed light on what I see as a significant and growing problem.
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[GEOFF]

I unchecked Outlookaddin in the Outlook 2007 Trust Center and Outlook runs very fast now as does my complete system.
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[sagym]

Thank you so much for that information! It helped a lot !!

[GEOFF]

Glad to hear it helped.

Though I am surprised that Microssoft Office has not sorted this out yet with a patch or something from the sounds of things as it has been six months now. My system and Outlook are still running fast ever since that Outlook Addin was unchecked.
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I have read this thread and thought yippee, problem solved. Alas, no

When I tried to uncheck the Outlookaddin box I got a message saying " The connected state of Office Addins registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed.

Can anyone tell me what I can do about this? I have 4 boxes still checked, MS Outlook Mobile Service, MS VBA for Outlook Addin, Outlook Addin, Windows Search Email Indexer. I want to uncheck all except the indexer as recommended above.

I am running Outlook 2007 in Administrater mode, on Windows Vista.

Hope someone can help, Outlook has made my laptop so slow it is virtually unusable.

Thanks
Sue

[GEOFF]

Let's double check if you are going about this in the right way?

Make sure Outlook is closed.

Then from the Start button open Computer and go: C\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Outlook .exe and then right click on Outlook.exe and click run as administrator. When Outlook opens go to trust center and uncheck the Outlookaddin box. You will not be allowed to uncheck addins when Outlook is opened in the normal fashion. I think that may be why you are getting that message.
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Thanks Geoff - I thought I had done that but I obviously hadn't! :$

Boxes now unchecked and my fingers firmly crossed that Outlook now speeds up!

Cheers

[GEOFF]

Ok. I think it should speed up after a reboot and you open Outlook the normal way.

By the way, I only unchecked one box to speed things up. That was the Addins box, the others were left checked. If things speed up nicely then you could go back and check a box one at a ime and see if things run ok after each box check, but leave the Addins box unchecked.
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So far so good, hugely noticeable. What am I missing by leaving the others unchecked? If they don't do much for me I may just leave them.

[GEOFF]

Glad it improved things! Sure, leave them unchecked. You can always go back and check an item you notice down the road that you need.
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Geoff, you have saved my life. I really can't believe the difference in performance and speed of my laptop now.

I don't suppose you've got any similar tips to speed up my filing have you? Pile never seems to go down

Cheers.

[GEOFF]

I know, it really is an incredible difference. I remember how good I felt when I got it sorted out. As for the filing, well, the only solution I have that seems to work is gathering it all up once a week and chucking it in my firepit out behind the house!
Enjoy.
Geoff

[elkadio]

This problem may have been simple to some but was a huge nightmare to me . I even contemplated buying a new computer to resolve it .

Some times the problems reduced me to tears and while my business require fast responses and heavy e-mail usage, I was paralyzed by the slowness of Outlook.

Now I understood the trick that Microsoft would never tell you; you must open Outlook as an administrator or you will not be able to unchecked the Add Ins.

Why on earth doesn't Microsoft consider these ad dins as Bl.... VIRUSES.

Really thank you from the heart and bless you all.

Elkadio

[GEOFF]

Anyone who has had this problem knows how frustrating it is......it absolutely cripples Outlook's performance. It is such a relief to solve it and yes, without knowing you must open Outlook as an Administrator, you are doomed.

Hard to believe Outlook 2007 was released and dumped on the public when it really did not work correctly. I am not sure if this is Vista specific, but still, somebody in testing missed something pretty basic considering Microsoft sells both.

Just happy to hear of anyone sorting this problem out............believe me, I remember how frustrating it was.
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[elkadio]

Hi Geoff

You know the amazing thing after solving this problem, is that I feel like having a new computer all together.

The performance has considerably improved in every other area including surfing the web.

What on earth are these Add-Ins any way and where the H... do they come from? and who need them?

Does any one knows... Please...

Regards

Elkadio