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Aaron Tech - 25 Sep 2007 18:00 GMT

I have had three laptops in the past and were all (at that time pretty
beefy). My currently laptop is an HP Dual Core 2.8Gh with 2GB's of Ram.

And whenever, I recieve email in Outlook 2007, I may recieve 10 to 20 email
messages, it grinds my entire laptop to a halt for around 3 minutes. The
hardrive lit is on continuously.

I do have three rules that sort my mail into folders - if "the following
strings are in the subject" move it to this folder. Would that cause this?

Is there a way of optimizing Outlook?

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stodj - 25 Sep 2007 21:04 GMT

Are you running any other programs when this happens? Maybe a virus
protection/spam filtering software?

> I have had three laptops in the past and were all (at that time pretty
> beefy). My currently laptop is an HP Dual Core 2.8Gh with 2GB's of Ram.
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> Is there a way of optimizing Outlook?

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VanguardLH - 26 Sep 2007 08:17 GMT

> whenever, I recieve email in Outlook 2007, I may recieve 10 to 20
> email messages, it grinds my entire laptop to a halt for around 3
> minutes. The hardrive lit is on continuously.

More likely is that you are receiving large e-mails and have scanning
enabled in your anti-virus program. That means your anti-virus
program has to interrogate your e-mail traffic before it can then
deliver it to the e-mail client. That takes time. Scanning of
e-mails is redundant (i.e., you lose no protection by disabling e-mail
scanning).

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