RE: OT - OutlookXP major performance problems since upgrade

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxx>]

Changing the server NIC to 100Mb has made a great improvement, but still
doesn't explain why XP is so much slower than 2000.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Monaghan [mailto:ha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 1:49 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT - OutlookXP major performance
> problems since upgrade
>
>
> Removed Outlook XP, re-installed it, tried SP's, still no fix.
>
> Installed Outlook 2000 and normal speed was obtained again,
> looks like Outlook XP will not be featuring on my box again
> for a while.
>
> Holiday backlog of mail was reporting 4 hours under XP, with
> 2000 it took less than 10 mins (probably would have been
> quicker if I'd get round to replacing the server NIC with the
> 100Mb NIC currently sitting on the shelf :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Monaghan [mailto:ha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 August 2003 20:41
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT - OutlookXP major performance
> problems since upgrade
>
>
> 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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