Outlook 2007 Slow – Easy Fix

When using Microsoft Outlook 2007 you will possibly have come across the problem of the program freezing when you are composing an email. This is often frustrating as it could be frozen for several seconds every 30 seconds. One way around this frustrating problem is to use notepad to compose emails and then copy and paste the full email in to Outlook once ready to send. However, that isn’t what most people want to do and really, we shouldn’t have to as we pay good money for software like this.

This tutorial will help you to find the source of the problem of Outlook 2007 Running Slow.

How to Prevent Outlook Running Slow

If your Outlook 2007 is running slow and you feel you have enough RAM and processing power to run it (which if your computer is even 3 or 4 years old it shouldn’t be a problem) then the problem more then likely to do with a few simple settings which I will cover here…

1.)Open up Outlook 2007 and login

2.)Click Tools > Trust Center

3.)Click Add-ins (located on the left menu bar)

4.)Click Go (found near the bottom of the Window)

5.)Uncheck all boxes that you do not recall permitting to use (for me it was all of them)

6.)Click OK and you should be good to go

After going through these simple steps you should find that Outlook is far more responsive then prior to the changes. If you find something is not working then repeat the steps above but test each of the boxes 1 at a time to find the one you need and leave all those you do not need, unchecked.

Please post any comments or questions below.