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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
ship wrote:
Softwa - Outlook2003 - WinXP Pro (SP2) - Google Desktop - Norton (on one PC) /McAfee Virus Scan (on another PC) Hi I am looking for ways to SPEED UP Outlook! Try using IMAP instead of POP. It will keep the mail on your server (as well as keep local copies if you want) so you don't have to copy your Outlook file from computer to computer. Outlook was always slow and buggy when I was using it. It is ok at first, but once you add more email accounts and the email piles up then it becomes sluggish. Maybe try Thunderbird, a free replacement to Outlook: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ It's not perfect either, but it's pretty good. |
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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
My experience with all versions of Outlook I have used (97, 98, 2000,
2003) is that what slows it down most is (a) a bad connection to the mail server, or (b) a slow or overloaded mail server. If you'd use IMAP you wouldn't need to download the messages, and probably your performance problem would be solved. However, I have found that Thunderbird interacts much better with IMAP than Outlook, so I use OL only where I need to access Exchange Server. ship wrote: Softwa - Outlook2003 - WinXP Pro (SP2) - Google Desktop - Norton (on one PC) /McAfee Virus Scan (on another PC) Hi I am looking for ways to SPEED UP Outlook! Should I: a) Increase RAM OR b) put in a dual processor ?? As webmaster, I am using Outlook to handle huge amounts of mail. Quite a lot of it is unavoidable legit stuff (receipts, feedback forms etc) though I confess quite a lot of spam/viruses etc. I am using about 30 "rules" to filter the emails into the correct folders. The big problem is that downloading my mail seems to KILL my PC's speed! i.e. Whilst it is downloading ANYTHING (form an external POP3 server) the PC immediately becomes almost unusable (to do anything else at the same time). I am forced to have my email housed in a POP3 server because I work from 3 different physical offices. (What I do is simply copy the entire PST file to/from my iPod - it copies quite fast about 1 GB in say 2 minutes...) My .PST file varies between c. 750MB to 1.75GB depending on how much I have archived off how recently. But even when it's down to 750MB, it's still DAMNED SLOW whilst Outlook is downloading. Btw, I regularly use SCANPST.exe to clean up the PST file. So... what's the best way to improve speed: - More RAM - A second processor - Or is there some Windows setting that can stop Outlook from grabbing so many "resources" (Incidentally the REALLY strange thing is that if I fire up Contol/Alt/Del and get the task manager the processor almost NEVER seems very busy and the Page File useage seems quite low... and the physical memory only ever seems about half used too... so why is it SO SLOW!!) Any thoughts? Ship Shiperton Henethe P.S. Here is the spec of my hardwa PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium 4 based system MOTHERBOARD: Intel Pentium 4 D945GNTLR system board Integrated Intel GMA950 graphics *Intel High definition audio *Intel 10/100 LAN*8USB 2.0 *4 conventional PCI *2 PCI Express x1 *1 PCI Express x16 *1 Serial*1 Parallel *4 Serial ATA interfaces *1 Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA33, ATA-66/100 *PS/2 Keyboard port *Mouse port *Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Processor 775 chipset 800FSB 2Mb cache RAM: 1Gb (2x 512Mb) 533 DDR2 memory GRAPHICS CARD: Matrox Millenium P650 PCle 128 - 128Mb Dual DVI/VGA PCI Express X16 - s/n: KEW37452 CASE: ATX Midi tower with 300W 12V PSU DISK: Seagate 120Gb 7200rpm SATA hard drive OPTICAL: DVD RW dual layer +&- drive FLOPPY: 1.44mb 3.5" Floppy disk drive |
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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
ship wrote: Softwa - Outlook2003 - WinXP Pro (SP2) - Google Desktop - Norton (on one PC) /McAfee Virus Scan (on another PC) How about using descent rules at the server level to fend off some of the spam before it gets to you. Try to keep your pst below one gig and scanpst is a last resort. Might also create a clean profile/pst as they can get trashed, I had one wouldn't delete deleted items... what a pain. Also if you have google desktop and norton and XPPro indexing all at the same time, nothing will help. Try rebooting and killing off google desktop and Norton, then rerun outlook and see what kind of speen increase you get. I have quite a few addresses and sites and understand the frustrations. I also have tried other tools and they all have problems, outlook works when it works, but when it doesn't - what a pain. |
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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
In article , Pat Willener wrote:
However, I have found that Thunderbird interacts much better with IMAP than Outlook, so I use OL only where I need to access Exchange Server. There is no good IMAP client; they all suck to various degrees: ** Outlook works well as an IMAP client, but as a Microsoft product you always have to worry about security vulnerabilities. ** I just stopped using Thunderbird as an IMAP client because although it is superior in many ways, it seems to have problems removing folders from its local cache when the folders are deleted from the server. There are a coupl other minor issues too, although for many people, it or Outlook will work fine. ** I'm now using Mulberry. Mulberry used to be maintained by Carnegie Mellon University, the people that maintain Cyrus, the IMAP/POP3 server software my mail server runs. It has some extremely cool features but has some quirks too. I'm still exploring all of its quirks and capabilities... ** Pegasus -- well, I just am not terribly fond of Pegasus, especially the fact that it tends to treat IMAP as the ******* child (in my opinion). -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room. |
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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
Hi - thanks for all the feedback folks - OP here. 1. No one has told me whether/how much a second processor would help in practice 2. What about having a HUGE amount of RAM - does anyone think that the problem might be paging sections of the .PST to/from disk? Maybe I should get another 1GB or even take it up to say 4GB total does anyone think that would help much? 3. Like I say I work from 3 different offices in 3 different geographical locations. So I'm not sure that MAPI would work (??) 4. Regarding turning off my anti-virus filtering of emails as they come in - that sounds irresponsible in the extreme! That would mean that the anti-virus software would only have ONE chance to kill a virus - i.e. when you actually open the email. I think I'd rather have the think kill them as they come in, unread. 5. XP Pro's indexing. Now I'm not at all clear about this. If you do a search using WinXP it seems to be BL**DY slow - certainly about 1000 times slower that GoogleDesktop! Nonetheless it sometimes IS useful because GoogleDesktop cant filter properly on size, specific date ranges, partial names etc. Now quite frankly being as WinXP Pro is *SO* slow at searching even with the indexing turned on, it seems to me that I may as well turn it OFF - because if a search is going to take more that 20 seconds it may as well take a couple of minutes for all the use it is. And if turning off the indexing speeds up the entire rest of the PC significantly then that would be well worth it! Can anyone tell me how to turn off the XP indexing? (And is there some way to bet back the filespace used by the indexes too...?) With thanks Ship Shiperton Henethe Concreteman wrote: ship wrote: Softwa - Outlook2003 - WinXP Pro (SP2) - Google Desktop - Norton (on one PC) /McAfee Virus Scan (on another PC) How about using descent rules at the server level to fend off some of the spam before it gets to you. Try to keep your pst below one gig and scanpst is a last resort. Might also create a clean profile/pst as they can get trashed, I had one wouldn't delete deleted items... what a pain. Also if you have google desktop and norton and XPPro indexing all at the same time, nothing will help. Try rebooting and killing off google desktop and Norton, then rerun outlook and see what kind of speen increase you get. I have quite a few addresses and sites and understand the frustrations. I also have tried other tools and they all have problems, outlook works when it works, but when it doesn't - what a pain. |
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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
"z" wrote in message ... Maybe try Thunderbird, a free replacement to Outlook: Thunderbird is *not* a replacement for Outlook. It can't do half of the things that Outlook can do. That said, it is a decent email client and I use it sometimes myself. |
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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
1) In a way it is answered; it is not processor intensive so you are fine on
this level. 2) Depends on what else you are doing with the computer but in general you won't get much more of a performance increase (at least from Outlook) when taking it past the 1GB. After this you only benefit from the System Cache. 3) I'm not sure what you mean by this. Location doesn't have to do anything with things. I can read my e-mail from anywhere from the planet as long as I have an Internet connection. 4) LOL this myth is definitely ranked #1 here. 5) You can't compare native XP search and a true indexed search. Use Windows Desktop Search and not XP search if you want to compare results with Google Desktop Search. Rightclick the disk- Properties and you'll find your indexing option. Either way; it is not going to speed up your machine so I wonder why it is this topic. -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more ----- "ship" wrote in message oups.com... Hi - thanks for all the feedback folks - OP here. 1. No one has told me whether/how much a second processor would help in practice 2. What about having a HUGE amount of RAM - does anyone think that the problem might be paging sections of the .PST to/from disk? Maybe I should get another 1GB or even take it up to say 4GB total does anyone think that would help much? 3. Like I say I work from 3 different offices in 3 different geographical locations. So I'm not sure that MAPI would work (??) 4. Regarding turning off my anti-virus filtering of emails as they come in - that sounds irresponsible in the extreme! That would mean that the anti-virus software would only have ONE chance to kill a virus - i.e. when you actually open the email. I think I'd rather have the think kill them as they come in, unread. 5. XP Pro's indexing. Now I'm not at all clear about this. If you do a search using WinXP it seems to be BL**DY slow - certainly about 1000 times slower that GoogleDesktop! Nonetheless it sometimes IS useful because GoogleDesktop cant filter properly on size, specific date ranges, partial names etc. Now quite frankly being as WinXP Pro is *SO* slow at searching even with the indexing turned on, it seems to me that I may as well turn it OFF - because if a search is going to take more that 20 seconds it may as well take a couple of minutes for all the use it is. And if turning off the indexing speeds up the entire rest of the PC significantly then that would be well worth it! Can anyone tell me how to turn off the XP indexing? (And is there some way to bet back the filespace used by the indexes too...?) With thanks Ship Shiperton Henethe Concreteman wrote: ship wrote: Softwa - Outlook2003 - WinXP Pro (SP2) - Google Desktop - Norton (on one PC) /McAfee Virus Scan (on another PC) How about using descent rules at the server level to fend off some of the spam before it gets to you. Try to keep your pst below one gig and scanpst is a last resort. Might also create a clean profile/pst as they can get trashed, I had one wouldn't delete deleted items... what a pain. Also if you have google desktop and norton and XPPro indexing all at the same time, nothing will help. Try rebooting and killing off google desktop and Norton, then rerun outlook and see what kind of speen increase you get. I have quite a few addresses and sites and understand the frustrations. I also have tried other tools and they all have problems, outlook works when it works, but when it doesn't - what a pain. |
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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
On 6 Sep 2006 02:00:45 -0700, "ship" wrote:
Hi - thanks for all the feedback folks - OP here. 1. No one has told me whether/how much a second processor would help in practice Based on the specs you published, I doubt going dial core would speed things up much. It would however, allow you to multitask more effectively. 2. What about having a HUGE amount of RAM - does anyone think that the problem might be paging sections of the .PST to/from disk? Maybe I should get another 1GB or even take it up to say 4GB total does anyone think that would help much? I think the performance increase would be minimal. 4. Regarding turning off my anti-virus filtering of emails as they come in - that sounds irresponsible in the extreme! Not permanently. Just as an experiment, to see what impact it has on performance. If Norton turns out to be the biggest culprit, you could seek another anti virus solution. A_C |
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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
z wrote:
Outlook was always slow and buggy when I was using it. It is ok at first, but once you add more email accounts and the email piles up then it becomes sluggish. Maybe try Thunderbird, a free replacement to Outlook: Hardly. A free replacement for Outlook Express, maybe, but not Outlook. -- Brian Tillman |
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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)
ship wrote:
1. No one has told me whether/how much a second processor would help in practice Probably not. If I/O is the bottleneck, adding processor power won't help. 2. What about having a HUGE amount of RAM - does anyone think that the problem might be paging sections of the .PST to/from disk? Maybe I should get another 1GB or even take it up to say 4GB total does anyone think that would help much? Files don't get paged, process address space does. 3. Like I say I work from 3 different offices in 3 different geographical locations. So I'm not sure that MAPI would work (??) If those MAPI connections were to three different Exchange accounts, it would be a problem (but separate profiles could handle it), but otherwise that won't make a difference. 4. Regarding turning off my anti-virus filtering of emails as they come in - that sounds irresponsible in the extreme! That would mean that the anti-virus software would only have ONE chance to kill a virus - i.e. when you actually open the email. I think I'd rather have the think kill them as they come in, unread. Then kill them unread. You still don't need a scanner for that. Your eyes, the sender, and the subject of the message should suffice. -- Brian Tillman |
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