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.

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.

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.

====

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.

Outlook 2007 is slow, but the main problems are with large (in the GB
range) PST/OST files. If you have a smaller PST/OST file, you'll prob.
be fine with it.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
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" wrote in message
ups.com:

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.

====

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.

How large is your PST?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
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"absolutezero273c" wrote in
message :

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.

I am not using a local folder for e-mail in the form of .pst. I am using the
Mailbox on my exchange 2003 server, but I do have a .ost file for working
offline of course.

My .ost file is 1 GB in size.

But why should this be the reason for my Outlook 2007 to be this much slower
than my Outlook 2003 given identical factors on both machines, with the
exception of noted hardware changes?

Is Microsoft mandating that everyone use smaller Personal Folders/Mailboxes
in order to make Outlook 2007 perform as well as Outlook 2003?

I can only tell you that it is slower. Everyone is hoping that it will
be faster with SP1 though, but who knows?
If you want it faster now, see the thread "Outlook 2007 RTM still slow"
in the Microsoft.public.outlook.general group and read the suggestions I
posted there.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
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"absolutezero273c" wrote in
message :

I am not using a local folder for e-mail in the form of .pst. I am using the
Mailbox on my exchange 2003 server, but I do have a .ost file for working
offline of course.

My .ost file is 1 GB in size.

But why should this be the reason for my Outlook 2007 to be this much slower
than my Outlook 2003 given identical factors on both machines, with the
exception of noted hardware changes?

Is Microsoft mandating that everyone use smaller Personal Folders/Mailboxes
in order to make Outlook 2007 perform as well as Outlook 2003?

Thanks, Patrick. I'll take a look.

Hopefully MS will have an SP1 out before summer.

The size of the PST/OST doesn't affect this problem at all. My PST was
only 100 megs and it was crippling slow just trying to get it to move
or copy email around. It also had IMAP and POP problems, crashes,
freezes, email taking forever to download.

For business users and anybody who uses Outlook daily I don't recommend
upgrading to Outlook 2007 until these bugs have been fixed. It's to bad
because the rest of Office is pretty good, I wish they had taken more
time and had a longer beta testing period to work out these problems
before they reached RTM.

On Jan 11, 9:44 am, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]"
wrote:
Outlook 2007 is slow, but the main problems are with large (in the GB
range) PST/OST files. If you have a smaller PST/OST file, you'll prob.
be fine with it.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues:http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In:http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
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" wrote in oglegroups.com:

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.

====

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.