A small follow-up on my previous note about the Outlook patch. One of the problems I did have consistently with Outlook 2007 before applying it was that sometimes mail queued to go out would stall interminably in the outbox before it would finally send. After the update, this has not happened.
Performance: April 2007 Archives
Outlook 2007 is a staple application on my desktop; it's always running, and I probably get more use out of it than Word on most days. But it's also suffered periodically from a kind of stodginess that seems to be totally unrelated to machine speed, fragmentation or anything else of the kind. Many people reported similar problems, and after gathering a good deal of user data Microsoft finally released a patch (validation needed) designed to address these problems, which they claim were due to contention issues in .PST access.
Thinking I could do no worse than I already was, I downloaded it and tried it out. The change was dramatic: Outlook now starts up markedly faster, and all operations with messages -- opening, moving, deleting, previewing -- are far speedier than they used to be. If you're running O2K7, go get it.
