Outlook is too sluggish

This is the most common of Outlook’s problems. Over time, emails, notes, calendar entries, attachments etc. keep piling up in the Outlook PST making it abnormally large in size. It eventually reaches to such an extent that working with Outlook becomes nearly impossible due to its utterly slow speed.

Solution – The first solution here is to starve the PST. You need to remove any and everything that is causing the PST to bloat up. Find out the folder called “Larger Than 100 Kb” in Outlook 2007, it will contain all emails that are larger than 100 Kb. Delete all unwanted old emails (especially the ones with bulky attachments). If you really need an attachment, save it to the disk but clear it out of the PST. Also, delete all other unwanted emails and clear out the Trash.

The second thing that could do wonders is Archiving. Archive your emails by year. This will save large amounts of data to your disk relieving the PST of its burden.