Why does my MS OUTLOOK take so long to start up???

[davidos]

There seems to be like a 15 second delay when it is starting which is very annoying....... Should I uninstall/reinstall it or is there some setting that would help???
Thanks!

 

[burnedout]

Nope. That's how Outlook is most of the time.

When some of our users in one particular department migrated over from Outlook Express to Outlook, they had the same complaints. Best practice is to start it and leave minimized. Also keep in mind about sending MS Office attachments to Outlook Express recipients in HTML. Switch to Plain Text or Rich Text if including MS Office attachments to an OE recipient or otherwise they will be unable to open it.

 

[Loggitt]

It has something to do with MS Messenger. Look here for tips on tweaking. I disabled Messenger and had the same problem. Now, it's only slow the first time (not 15 seconds by a long shot), but not as slow as before the tweak!

TweakXP

 

[JeSpre]

When I tried Outlook after years of OE, I found the same thing. I realized that It launches winword.exe (MS word) in the background, because MS Word is apparently what is used for composing. That's horribly inefficent, so I'm back to OE. This was installed as part of the office package, so if you have a standalone Outlook, maybe this isn't your problem.

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: JeSpre
When I tried Outlook after years of OE, I found the same thing. I realized that It launches winword.exe (MS word) in the background, because MS Word is apparently what is used for composing. That's horribly inefficent, so I'm back to OE. This was installed as part of the office package, so if you have a standalone Outlook, maybe this isn't your problem.

You can change that in the options, and force Outlook to use it's own integrated composer if you wish.

 

[bozo1]

Mine comes up in less than a second, that that's with it launching Word as my editor. <shrug>

 

[wjsulliv]

Its totally an Instant Messanger problem.

For me, my desktop was taking a long time to load and a long time to switch between messages. But my laptop was fast, basically instant switching of messages in the preview window.

So I search here and found this thread and remembered that I might not have shut off IM on my Desktop (I know I did on the laptop). So I went into Tools --> Options --> Other and deselected Enable Instant Messaging in Outlook and hit the apply and ok buttons.

After closing and restarting Outlook, its as fast as my laptop, which is basically no delay. As good as any other e-mail client.

 

[hamburglar]

use outlook express.