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Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)



 
 
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Old September 13th, 2006, 07:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook
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Default Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)


You only have the caching option if you're connected to an Exchange server.


Thanks drat I feared as much.

Ship

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Old September 13th, 2006, 08:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook,alt.www.webmaster
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Say I've had an idea...!

Suppose I keep TWO .PST files always open:
- One with the last (say) 7 days in it
- One with all the stuff I really need over (say) the last 6 months
(about 1GB!).

So if I keep the .PST file that I DOWNLOAD into really, really small,
*maybe* Outlook(2003) wont get so 'confused' and do it somewhat
quicker!

I could then regularly run an archiving function to archive
everthing over a few days old.

OR do you think that this wont work - because it will have to
load the whole (??) of "last 6 month" file - i.e. 1GB and that would
then slow up Outlook...!

Any thoughts?

Ship
Shiperton Henethe

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Old September 13th, 2006, 09:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook
Brian Tillman
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Default Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)

ship wrote:

But I'm using POP3 and not msExchange !


Well then of course you can't use Cached Exchange Mode. From its very name
you can tell it requires Exchange.
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Old September 13th, 2006, 09:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook
Brian Tillman
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Default Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)

ship wrote:

OR do you think that this wont work - because it will have to
load the whole (??) of "last 6 month" file - i.e. 1GB and that would
then slow up Outlook...!


I'd be really surprised if Outlook loads the whole PST into memory, so even
if the 1GB PST is the only PST, I doubt it would slow Outlook 2003
significantly if it;s a Unicode PST.
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Brian Tillman

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Old September 14th, 2006, 03:37 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook
ship
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Default Best way to _SPEED UP_ Outlook2003 ? (e.g. More RAM, Dual processors...?)


Brian Tillman wrote:
ship wrote:

OR do you think that this wont work - because it will have to
load the whole (??) of "last 6 month" file - i.e. 1GB and that would
then slow up Outlook...!


I'd be really surprised if Outlook loads the whole PST into memory, so even
if the 1GB PST is the only PST, I doubt it would slow Outlook 2003
significantly if it;s a Unicode PST.
--
Brian Tillman


I have 2GB of RAM and Windows certainly does NOT load the whole
think into RAM. Interestingly it now appear that my poor hard disk is
taking quite a hammering (I hadnt realised - mainly because it's the
first HD that I've ever had that is almost absolutely silent!)

It's strange how windows is needing to write QUITE so much to
disk when I can see from the "Local Area Connection" / TCP/IP
icons (which are intermittently glowing icons bottom right on the
screen),
that there is almost nothing being downloaded - just a very slow
trickle.

Strange I wonder if it's downloading so slowly because the PST
is still corrupted in some way and whether all that writing to disk
is a side effect of said corruption...

Ship
Shiperton Henethe

 




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