Under system information, total physical memory is 1 GB, available physical
memory is 179 MB with excel and word and IE7 and outlook express and outlook
open. Is this the right measure and, if so, is it enough, or small enough to
slow things down? If I have multiple big excel spreadsheets open, as
opposed to just one, now does that matter much?

Thanks!
Dean

"Charles W Davis" wrote in message
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Uninstall and reinstall will do nothing that Detect and Repair didn't do.

Since you state that your hard drive is 80BG, I would guess that you
should look to the amount of RAM that is installed on your machine.
Additional RAM is relatively cheap. When you have Outlook open you are
using a large amount of RAM and the computer is constantly paging due lack
of RAM. When hard drive space is low, the paging is further hampered.

Just a thought.
"Dean" wrote in message
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I added the following to an old thread I had done and got no response for
awhile, so I think that, maybe, I should have posted as a new item, so
here goes:

My outlook has been exhibiting more and more delays. As K Orland
originally recommended, I did detect and repair, then scanpst.exe, and
then compacted my PST but it hasn't helped. My Outlook is so slow as to
be almost useless now. I can type say, 5 words, at a time, then have to
wait 30 seconds for it to catch up, etc, etc.

Does anyone have any helpful ideas for me, PLEASE!!! I did later notice
that I only had about 2.7GB left on my hard drive of about 80GB and so I
ran the equivalent of scandisk. then deleted so that I would have more
than 15% free which then allowed me to run defrag. Even with only 2.7G
free, Outlook was the only program exhibiting slowness symptoms that I
could notice. Still things are no better.

If the problem is likely in Outlook rather than in my PST, does it make
sense to uninstall Outlook, then reinstall and import the PST?

Thanks much!
Dean