Outlook 2007 SP2 with Windows 7 Home

michgal2kmichgal2k
edited December 2010 in Science & Tech
Having an issue when using Outlook....whenever I change tabs within Outlook - the program hangs-says not responding for a few seconds - then loads the new tab. This just started happening. Any ideas? Everything else appears to be working fine with the computer. Just a bit annoying.

I have deleted a bunch of unread emails. My .pst file is 4.52 gb.

Appreciate any help you can give.

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2010
    well that is likely the problem right there your pst file is getting absurdly large. 2gigs is about the comfortable level for a pst file. Larger then that and it starts to act strange.

    Turn archiving on and set it to 6months. That should at least halve your pst file.
  • michgal2kmichgal2k
    edited December 2010
    OK Silly question - how do I turn archieve on? I am also still deleting things - had some photos too
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2010
    When you delete things are you just deleting them, in which case they end up in your deleted items or are you permanently deleting them (shift+delete) or after you deleted them then emptying your trash. Bottom line is that unless you permanently delete it it's not really deleted, just moved.

    To turn archiving on in Outlook 2007 I'm not 100% sure. But in past versions you go into Tools then Mailbox Cleanup and you'll see the archive features and options.
  • michgal2kmichgal2k
    edited December 2010
    While looking at Microsoft for info on my missing Archive stuff - I found a link to
    KB2412171 which is an updadte that caused autoarchive to go away and caused my problems with outlook. Once uninstalled - everything works great & autoArchive is back.
    Just wanted to pass along:) Thanks
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited December 2010
    Point of information: The PST used in Outlook 2003 and newer uses the Unicode format and can grow to around 20GB. The old ANSI-formatted PSTs were limited to 2GB.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2010
    True, but based on performance in the field it still gets cranky the larger that PST file gets.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited December 2010
    Well yeah, that goes for nearly any kind of database.
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