Outlook XP opening REALLY slow!

[JackBurton]

This is REALLY pissing me off! I have Office XP with SP2 installed and Outlook opens up slower than hell. Does anyone know if there is a fix out for his? This is rediculous! :|

 

[BlueWeasel]

Do have alot of messages in any of the email folders? With the systems you have listed, OE should fly.

I assume its OE6?

 

[prosaic]

There are numerous possible causes for this. You might want to list all of the various (if any) applications (like messenger apps) that you are using with Outlook. Sometimes Outlook waits for a "helper" app like Messenger get logged on before Outlook will finish coming up. Also, configuring Outlook to work with http mail servers can really increase the Outlook startup time if the server is slow to grant a logon. (If the connection to the http mail server, like Hotmail, is timing out, this adds 60 seconds to the Outlook startup time.)

Of course a huge PST file may be a problem, too, but it would have to be really large to cause much of a slowdown on a newer system. If none of the items suggested in the first paragraph pan out you might try removing deadwood in various folders, and you might try compressing the file, too. Remember that Outlook doesn't free up space from deleted items until you shut the app down and restart it.

- prosaic

 

[snowguy]

Got this off the web...it worked for me.

There has already been one suggestion for fixing Outlook's load time after uninstalling Messenger, however if you don?t feel comfortable editing the registry simply open OE, click on the Tools menu, then Options, then go to the 'Other' tab, then un-check the box at the bottom that reads "Enable instant messaging in Microsoft Outlook".

 

[JackBurton]

Son of a b!tch, it worked!!! Thanks guys! Just to clarify something though, I'm running Outlook XP not Outlook Express. But anyway, I disabled MSN Messenger at start up in XP so I guess disabling it in Outlook was the key. I'm assuming Outlook kept trying to launch Messenger and since I disabled it, it was hanging. Thanks again guys! You are AWESOME! Now Outlook opens instantly!