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    Problem with Vista and Outlook 2007 on e1405/640M

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by breidemalm, Mar 20, 2007.

  1. breidemalm

    breidemalm Newbie

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    Is it just me or is Outlook 2007 running crazy slow on Vista. I have tried to change all possible settings. What to do?
    I got CD2 2.0 7200, 2gig ram and 100gig 7200 harddrive. No games and i did a clean install of Vista. It should be fast enough to run Outlook one would think. All other office 2007 programms runs really smoth and fast. In fact everything works like a charm except Outlook.
    Sorry for my spelling. I am Swedish
     
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  2. David Allen

    David Allen Newbie

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    Are there anyone who are having problems installing VISTA , it pretty easy . To bad it messes up your computer . I just bought a DELL 1501 laptop and its on the fritz . Are there people who are haveing problems installing upgrade ( VISTA ) and what did they do to fix the problem .
     
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    David Allen Newbie

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    well I've been talking to a tech. and the easiest way is to re-install Windows ( what ever that means ) and try to re-install Vista . I haven't the time to start this , but as soon as I do I'll e-mail back to let you know how I made out . In detail too .
     
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  4. Genom

    Genom Notebook Guru

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    Cant say I had any trouble, but I did a fresh vista install, and then just restored my user data from a backup. Office installed with no issues and the machine has been running fine, although it has only been 4 days.

    1.6Ghz CD, 2GB RAM, 60GB 7200RPM HD
     
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  5. gohanssjn

    gohanssjn Notebook Evangelist

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    No problem with a 1210 with Vista and Outlook 2007 here.
     
    gohanssjn, Mar 20, 2007
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    quiong Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Are you sure that the problem is with outlook and not your internet connection or your email server? When my email server is being retarded, things take a long time in outlook, but it's not really outlook's problem. Try a different email client (like mozilla thunderbird) and see if you still have the same problems.
     
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    zenecis Notebook Enthusiast

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    when you say crazy slow you mean it's crazy slow when it's receiving mails from your e mail client? or the program is crazy slow when you try to run it?
     
    zenecis, Mar 21, 2007
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    The programm is running really slow when looking in calendar etc. My internet connection is fine. When running windows mail it works like a charm. It is just outlook 2006 which is slow. I have found other people with the same problem

    The problem -- which is absolutely inexcusable -- is that Office 2007 (Outlook, specifically) crawls, even on this superfast machine. The hard-drive is also constantly in motion, slowing things down even more. I'm not alone in these observations. You can read other Office 2007 horror stories here and here. Despite a small .PST file -- I reduced mine from close to a gig to less than 150 MB -- my Intel Centrino Duo-driven notebook chugs along like a 386 trying to run an application originally written for a mainframe system. Even such tasks as composing a simple email are delayed by a few seconds before my typed words ultimately appear on the screen (and send / receives and related activities take an eternity).
     
    breidemalm, Mar 21, 2007
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