RE: OT - OutlookXP major performance problems since upgrade

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxx>]

Already disabled it, I had a word with our tech team at work and they
suggested a problem with the MAPI drivers and to remove / re-install,
I'll let you know how it goes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Brazier [mailto:simon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 August 2003 08:19
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT - OutlookXP major performance
> problems since upgrade
>
>
> Alex,
>
> I had something similar with this and traced it back to
> Instant Messaging.
>
> If you go into Tools, Options in Outlook and then click on
> the Other tab, and then check that the Enable Instant
> Messaging in Outlook checkbox is unticked. If not, then
> untick it, restart Outlook and have another go.
>
> Let me know if it solves it.
>
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Monaghan [mailto:ha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 06 August 2003 20:27
> To: Ukha_D
> Subject: [ukha_d] OT - OutlookXP major performance problems
> since upgrade
>
>
> I decided it was time to upgrade to XP, so upgraded W2K to
> WXP (Professional), also upgraded SWMBO's PC to WXP pro.
>
> I then installed OfficeXP Pro on my machine, it now takes an
> absolute age to do anything in Outlook, assuming I'd buggered
> up the server (knowing MS & Linux's history), I configured
> Outlook Express to pull mail from my local POP3 box and this
> pulls mail down at a  rate of several mails per second (as
> Outlook 2000 used to), went back to OutlookXP and it's 20-90
> seconds per message. Accessing my mailbox with anything other
> than OutlookXP is fine.
>
> Mail folder is on a Samba server acting as PDC (but this was
> no issue under 2000) PC is an AMD Duron 1.3GHz with 512Mb ram
> and 40Gb IDE HDD and is running between 7% & 35% on average
> CPU, Outlook doesn't appear to be CPU bound when it's doing
> it's mail download, I've even tried disabling the multiple
> rules I have and still no better performance.
>
> When not accessing the mailbox, it seems to run OK
>
> Anyone had any similar issues ?
>
>
>
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