Slow to move email attachments in a To-Do List task in Outlook 200

[Hushpuppy]

Hi,
I use my Outlook tasks to keep track of my work. I generally copy all my
email messages into a particular task that that email is concerned with.

Sometimes I need to move email attachments around. This worked fine in
Outlook 2000 at my old job.

Here, at my new job, we are running Office 2007. This is a new install.
Say I open a task. Grabbing a mail message icon and moving it to another
line within that task takes a reeealllllyyyy looooonnnnnngggg time- like 1-2
minutes! I have created a new local .pst file and put a Tasks folder there,
and copied my current tasks into it, then opened a task, and tried to move an
email message icon- no help.

Is this a known issue? Thanks.
-Mike Schwager

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello]

Do you have all the latest updates for Office 2007 installed? Outlook 2007
had a lot of slowness issues when it was first released.

 

[Hushpuppy]

I'll give it a try. Thanks for the tip...! We'll see what happens...

 

[Hushpuppy]

I have checked with my Windows administrators... Yes, I do have all the
latest updates.

I should mention that I save copies of a lot of my emails into my individual
tasks, so I can annotate the notes about my work with the appropriate
conversations. The reactions of my coworkers indicate to me that this is not
done too often, so maybe not a lot of people experience this problem.
However, I did this with Outlook 2000 at my old job and it worked fine, over
a long period of time.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello]

I'm pretty sure that even with the updates, Outlook 2007 is slower in general
than Outlook 2000 was.

 

[Hushpuppy]

In this case, Outlook 2007 is not slower. It's positively post-glacial...
what took 5 seconds (or less) in Outlook 2000 is taking a minute or two in
2007. It's even that slow when the Task's pst folder is local to the
machine... :-(

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello]

Take a look at http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/slow.htm and see if
you find any useful info there.