Outlook Causing Slowdowns

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I originally started this thread in the Powerpoint group, but now it seems I've narrowed my problems down to Outlook. Here's the quick summary

Painfully slow performance when Archiving files in Outlook and when Opening files in Powerpoint keeps returning

I initially reported on Sunday this problem appeared after loading a contact manager application called Plaxo and remained after I uninstalled. Suggestion was to restore my system back to a known good checkpoint. This worked and performance problems were all fixed

This only lasted for one day, when I noticed the slow performance issues returned. I did not make any known changes to my system, other than working in various applications.

So now today I restored back to the same checkpoint, and performance returned as expected. However this time I imported some backed-up archive files in Outlook, and closed an unused personal folder in Outlook. Following these actions my slow problems returned in both Outlook and Powerpoint. So it appears I've narrowed the cause of my problems down to making folder changes in Outlook

Any suggestions on next actions to take in attempting to solve this problem? I'm leaning toward removing Outlook and moving back to Outlook Express. Although for compatibility issues with other applications I use, I'd prefer to keep Outlook
 
I had this problem with outlook unfortunately it is a
memory hog and I went to 2003 and it got worse. I just
removed Outlook, I love and hate it. I will keep an eye
out for a resolution also but for now no one has been able
to help me either.
Sorry
Joe
-----Original Message-----
I originally started this thread in the Powerpoint group,
but now it seems I've narrowed my problems down to
Outlook. Here's the quick summary:
Painfully slow performance when Archiving files in
Outlook and when Opening files in Powerpoint keeps
returning.
I initially reported on Sunday this problem appeared
after loading a contact manager application called Plaxo
and remained after I uninstalled. Suggestion was to
restore my system back to a known good checkpoint. This
worked and performance problems were all fixed.
This only lasted for one day, when I noticed the slow
performance issues returned. I did not make any known
changes to my system, other than working in various
applications.
So now today I restored back to the same checkpoint, and
performance returned as expected. However this time I
imported some backed-up archive files in Outlook, and
closed an unused personal folder in Outlook. Following
these actions my slow problems returned in both Outlook
and Powerpoint. So it appears I've narrowed the cause of
my problems down to making folder changes in Outlook.
Any suggestions on next actions to take in attempting to
solve this problem? I'm leaning toward removing Outlook
and moving back to Outlook Express. Although for
compatibility issues with other applications I use, I'd
prefer to keep Outlook.
 
I don't believe Outlook hogging ram to be the actual issue causing my
problem. I've had everything running fine at times, then after making
changes to my personal folders in Outlook, both Powerpoint and Outlook
permanently slow down. Regardless of whether Outlook is running or not. So I
know under certain conditions they both work fine. If we could trace down
why changing folders in Outlook causes Powerpoint to slow down we'd have it
solved.

Also, these are huge clues, it seems only so many things would cause this
behavior in both programs. Also, it seems the right Microsoft engineer would
quickly know what is causing this.
 
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