Outlook 2007 Performance Improvements Hotfix
If you haven't heard already, we have released a Pre-SP2 hotfix that help improve Outlook performance and responsiveness in a big way. Here is an excerpt from the article.
Performance improvements
Performance and responsiveness are key concerns for all our customers. That is why we made the large performance tuning and optimization changes that are included in Office suite Service Pack 2 (SP2).
Outlook 2007 SP2 delivers performance improvements in four major areas:
- General Responsiveness
SP2 reduces I/O disk usage and UI response time. - Startup
SP2 removes long operations from initial startup. - Shutdown
SP2 makes Outlook exit predictably despite pending activities. - Folder/View Switch
SP2 improves view rendering and folder switching.
Before you go out applying this on your machine, you need to be warned of the first startup experience as we rebuild the tables and indexes in your OST. If you have a large OST, this is going to take some time, but I can tell you that the wait is well worth it. It is actually an entirely new experience at least for me anyway's since I have a good deal of email item counts in my folders. Switching between folders with large item counts is no longer painful and this hotfix provides immediate viewing of these folders.
Grab the hotfix from the following article:
Description of the Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook.msp): February 24, 2009
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/961752
Check out the plethora of improvements in this release in the following article as there are many.
Outlook 2007 improvements in the February 2009 cumulative update
[https://support.microsoft.com/kb/968009](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/968009 "https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;968009
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Hope this helps tame some of the larger mailboxes that you have.
Mike
Comments
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Thanks very much! I've been suffered the performance issue of Outlook 2007 since the upgrade. Now it is finally solved. Have to say the hotfixes bring a very apparent performance improvement.