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Finally a real tip to speed up Outlook 2007!

by Tris Hussey on March 14th, 2007

 One of the big problems folks have been having with Office 2007 is Outlook.  Frankly, it can be a serious dog.  Sluggish, serious performance lags.  All the things you don’t want in your “latest and greatest” e-mail client.  Looks like, thanks to Mack D. Male, there is a solution:

DELL has gotten back to me with a solution that seemed to work.

Following these steps:

1. Open Outlook as an Administrator by going to C:Programs/Microsoft Office/Office12 and right clicking on the Outlook exe program.  Choose “Run as Administrator”.

2. Then once Outlook opens, go to Tools, then Trust Center, then Addins.

3. Click “Go…” at the bottom and uncheck Outlookaddins.

4. To maximize speed, they recommended to uncheck everything EXCEPT Windows Indexing, which, according to them, is the only useful addin anyway.

When I did this, the speed of my Outlook 2007 improved significantly; although, we will all have to wait for Microsoft to release the update that fixes this issue completely. I hope this helped you.  Microsoft Discussion Groups Home

I did this last night and I think it’s working.  Mack and I would both like to see what others find.  Truth be told I didn’t disable Evernote clipping or ClearContext (of course!), but I still think there was a boost.

Give this tip a shot and let me know if it works for you.  Best of all you can “undo” it very, very easily.

 

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29 opinions for Finally a real tip to speed up Outlook 2007!

  • Big AL
    Mar 22, 2020 at 3:32 am

    Thanks. The fix for Outlook 2007 worked!

  • Brian
    Mar 28, 2020 at 12:37 pm

    I just did the changes and saw a significant improvement in start time. It also made my system run smother as well. The only plug-ins I left was Plaxo and Google Indexing. Thanks for the post.

  • Tris Hussey
    Mar 28, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    You’re welcome guys I’m glad it worked. I think it worked for me as well. But given the other beta stuff I’m testing, well I take system weirdness in stride.

  • pj
    Mar 31, 2020 at 2:42 pm

    I did this, and didnt notice any significant improvement, my system is really slow with outlook, any suggestions anyone?

  • Patrixon
    Apr 5, 2020 at 4:06 am

    It really help ! Try it. Thank you for this hint.

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  • Alex
    Apr 23, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    I did this and it worked well.thanks

  • Liam
    Apr 24, 2020 at 2:04 am

    This is great, thanks. Disabled everything apart from the Indexing service, and the OneNote add-on. Instant improvement.

    I’m just about to restart it, to see if the load time’s decreased.

  • Ryan
    Apr 27, 2020 at 8:20 am

    This has worked a treat. I have been trauling the web for a solution to the pitiful lags I’ve been experiencing with Outlook ‘07, and this is the only fix that really worked! Thank you! I have unchecked everything except indexing, and now I can’t believe how quickly outlook runs. Time and time again, restart after restart, Outlook is faster. And so is my system. Thanks again!

  • Tris Hussey
    Apr 27, 2020 at 8:48 am

    I’m glad that this worked for all of you! I think I need to take my own advice and disable more stuff too … man sometimes Outlook just grinds to a freakin’ halt.

  • Scott
    May 30, 2020 at 12:53 pm

    Huge improvement. Thank you - outlook was making a Dell XPS 4G dual core system pause for about 10 seconds sometimes and sometimes 4 - 5 minutes during startup. What were they thinking?

  • Gary Radley
    Jun 9, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    The biggest slowdown starting Outlook is getting the “Inbox” up.
    I have been using the following macro loaded into the “This Outlook Session” folder in the VBE to make Outlook load ‘instantly’.
    It basically copies all of the “Inbox” messages into a sub folder called “Inbox_Archive” when you close Outllook. If the folder does not exist, it is created. To go back and look at ‘Old’ messages, you just click on the “Inbox_Archive” folder.
    Pretty easy.

    Private Sub Application_Quit()
    Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
    Dim myNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
    Dim myInbox As Outlook.Folder
    Dim myDestFolder As Outlook.Folder
    Dim myItems As Outlook.Items
    Dim myItem As Object
    Dim folder_exists As Boolean
    Dim inbox_Folders As Integer
    Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace(”MAPI”)
    Set myInbox = myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
    inbox_Folders = myInbox.Folders.Count
    For Count = 1 To inbox_Folders
    If myInbox.Folders.Item(Count) = “Inbox_Archive” Then
    folder_exists = True
    End If
    Next
    If folder_exists = False Then
    Set myDestFolder = myInbox.Folders.Add(”Inbox_Archive”)
    End If
    Set myItems = myInbox.Items
    Set myDestFolder = myInbox.Folders(”Inbox_Archive”)
    For Each myItem In myItems
    myItem.Move myDestFolder
    Next
    End Sub

  • Gary Radley
    Jun 9, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    Sorry
    This was the original code.
    The new code is …
    Private Sub Application_Quit()
    Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
    Dim myNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
    Dim myInbox As Outlook.Folder
    Dim myDestFolder As Outlook.Folder
    Dim myItems As Outlook.Items
    Dim myItem As Object
    Dim folder_exists As Boolean
    Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace(”MAPI”)
    Set myInbox = myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
    For Count = 1 To myInbox.Folders.Count
    If myInbox.Folders.Item(Count) = “Inbox_Archive” Then
    folder_exists = True
    End If
    Next
    If folder_exists = False Then
    Set myDestFolder = myInbox.Folders.Add(”Inbox_Archive”)
    End If
    Set myItems = myInbox.Items
    Set myDestFolder = myInbox.Folders(”Inbox_Archive”)
    For Each myItem In myItems
    myItem.Move myDestFolder
    Next
    End Sub

    Just a bit quicker.

  • Tom
    Jun 11, 2020 at 11:58 am

    Most of the items in the add on list say they cannot be changed. Any ideas?

  • Matt Glover
    Jul 1, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Worked a treat here. I disabled everything!

  • Jeff
    Jul 25, 2020 at 5:04 pm

    I disabled everything except for the windows indexing and it worked great, but now I don’t see the new mail desktop alerts pop up. Anybody else have this problem?

  • Trinae
    Sep 27, 2020 at 12:33 pm

    I tried the tips and i do notice a difference in performance. can anyone tell me why is seems that Office 2007 is a memory hog?

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  • Raul Cardenas
    Jan 13, 2020 at 7:11 am

    I did it and then got a message that Application was experimeted a serius problem and needed to restart the application. I did, and when starting asked to re start the Mc Affee Add in, so checked that one and worked OK.

  • Chris M. Olson
    Feb 24, 2020 at 1:51 pm

    I bought Vista and Office 2007 when they first came out. Outlook has been getting progressively slower and I could never find out why. I found this article and it improved my Outlook response significantly. I run Outlook, Business Contact Manager, and Outlook Connector and I do not have any significant problems anymore. Also, I was surprised to find the “addins” that had been assigned to Outlook and could be deleted without apparent affect.

    Thanks a million for the information!

  • Sean Menefee
    May 20, 2020 at 1:53 am

    After getting the latest SP3 XP pack, and using this trick with Outlook 2007, Office is finally working at an acceptable speed to upgrade my office to.

    Even though I’m a bit late on posting to this article, I still wanted to say thank you!

  • ennuianomie
    May 21, 2020 at 3:01 pm

    Thank you… I’ve seen this tip on a few sites and I just implemented it. Outlook 2007 now runs like any other program… quick to start.. quick to quit. Thanks a million to everyone that’s putting this tip out there…

  • ennuianomie
    May 21, 2020 at 3:02 pm

    btw… there’s a lot of chat about Xenobi. out there. Prior to this fix Xenobi made outlook unworkable and infuriating. However.. it may function more efficiently now with this fix… i’ll let you know.

  • Vincent Vicci
    May 27, 2020 at 1:24 pm

    Jeez! My Outlook is like F16 now…

  • Nelson
    May 29, 2020 at 7:37 am

    I tried to run the program as an administrator but I dont know the administrator password and it wont let me just use a blank password, but I never had a password in the first place, how do I get around this?

  • Wykidangel
    May 29, 2020 at 4:35 pm

    Thanks for the tips. With this, the SP1 update for Vista and getting rid of the unneeded addins, my pc is running smoothly with Outlook.

    @ ennuianomie, Xobni works well with Outlook 2007, you should check it out again.

    http://www.xobni.com/

  • Cam Johnston
    Jul 31, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    I think this may have worked, brilliant, just brilliant

  • Wali
    Aug 11, 2020 at 4:27 am

    Yes, It did work for me as well. after removing the marks from those addin except index so now oulook 2007 working smoothly and fast. thank you very much.

  • michael
    Oct 15, 2020 at 3:07 pm

    you rock so much. I just finally got the bravery to wade through and delete some stuff and found this while whining about wanting to keep my big folders.

    This was amazing. Thanks so much.

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