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Complete Guide to Making Outlook Faster (Than Molasses)

December 23, 2009 Computer Tips And Tricks

If you are stuck using Microsoft Outlook to send those TPS reports at your office, then you may understand how slow and irritating this may be. If so, read on and make use of a few tips and tricks which will enable you to solve these problems completely.

Install Service Pack 2 (or later)

While you might keep up to date on all of your Windows patches, you will still need to install the latest service pack, as there really are too many people all over the world who are actually making use of versions which are way too old and not effective at all.

Download Complete IMAP Items (Like POP Does)

You can make use of IMAP in order to effectively access your email accounts. You may be surprised to see that Outlook is actually able to hang and may start becoming completely unreliable. Outlook may completely start malfunctioning which will probably drive you completely mad, as it sure manages to drive me mad. You can actually solve this problem by getting Outlook to download an entire message each time that you synchronize, so that you won’t actually have to wait and be annoyed.

You could do the following by going to the ‘Send/Receive’ Groups panel by using the Ctrl+Alt+S hotkey, then scroll down into your account and choose ‘Download complete items including attachments’. The first time Outlook syncs with your mail server, it might take a little longer, but you should notice a significant improvement overall.

Set up Auto-Archive to Clean Your Mailbox

Most people don’t understand that if they actually keep a clean and tidy Mailbox, then this may prove to help the functioning of their entire Outbox, in the long run.

Compact Your Personal Folders (PST) File

You will need to go into the ‘Files’ > Data File Management menu, then make use of the certain ‘Settings’ button to take you to the dialog where you can actually compact your mailbox. This will actually save you lots of much needed space.
Run the Inbox Repair Tool

It has more than likely never occurred to you to run the built-in ‘Inbox Repair’ tool. It may be a very good idea to make use of this tool in order to actually help fix your problems which you may have. Some of these problems, you may not even know are there, but they could be causing you many problems. In order to do this you will need to go into the Outlook folder which contains the installation details. You will then need to find the scanpst.exe file in order to repair the entire process.

Disable Outlook’s RSS Feature

You can disable the RSS feature if you are not using it and this is going to really help you in the long run. This means that the system will function more effectively.

Save Attachments (So You Can Delete the Messages)

You could make use of the Outlook Attach View in order to clean up the messages which are causing your mailbox to be extremely full. All those emails which contain vast amounts of attachments can get changed both easily and quickly.
Use the Mailbox Cleanup Wizard

You could take a look at which mail is taking up the most space and then delete the mail, that is taking up the most space. In order to effectively pull this off, you need to make use of the ‘Mailbox Cleanup Wizard’ option that will help you in this regard.

Disabling Plug-ins Can Seriously Speed Things Up

There are some wonderful plug in and tabs that could seriously increase the speed of everything. If you teach yourself how to make use of all of this in the correct manner then you could really save yourself much unwanted trouble. The positive points will be that everything is going to function much better and work more effectively at the end of the day.

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