I’m not experiencing slowdowns but it does make me wonder about usuing Outlook 2007 as a feed agregator.
“Adding RSS feeds can quickly swell the in-boxes of many users to more than 2GB of data, according to O’Kelly. He said that causes Outlook 2007, especially when it’s running on PCs that don’t have large amounts of memory, to write to the hard drive much more often than it typically does — resulting in performance slowdowns. Hopefully, Microsoft will be able to better tune that part of the software before the next major release, O’Kelly said.”
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Slow Performance From Outlook 2007?”
I’ve been able to speed things up by installing the following patch found here:
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/outlook/fix-outlook-2007-slow-instant-search/