Outlook 2007 is really really slow. I don't recommend it yet especially
on a laptop. The main problem is CPU spikes which can freeze the whole
machine.

Apparently they switch the HTML rendering engine from IE to Word and it
is causing some problems.

I'm sure Microsoft will fix it, I think they pushed Outlook out the
door before it was ready, something that software companies are doing a
lot lately.

The only solution is to downgrade to Outlook 2003.

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On Jan 11, 7:29 am, absolutezero273c
wrote:
Sorry. Forgot to mention both are running XP Pro SP2 and working off of
Exchange 2003.

"absolutezero273c" wrote:
I was hoping I might be able to find some help. I have installed Office 2007
Pro Plus on my new laptop. A Dell Latitude 820 with the Intel Core 2 Duo
T7400 with 2 GB of RAM.

The thing is it is 3 times SLOWER than Office 2003 Pro on my old laptop. A
Dell Latitude D600 with an Intel Pentium M Dothan, 1.8GHZ and 1 GB of RAM.

To be fair, I mainly work in Outlook, so this is where I am seeing the huge
hit in performance. And I don't even have the Instant Search/Desktop Search
installed yet.

I would have thought hardware alone would be enough to cover any added
demands of the new Office 2007.

Are there any issues known that affect the performance and that can be
resolved?

Thanks in advance.