Monday, June 24, 2013

Fix Slow Email Opening Issue In Microsoft Outlook

Outlook is a great software application that lets you manage your various email accounts with ease. Microsoft Outlook is not just a regular email client program used for managing your emails; you can make use of its various other features like calendar, task manager, contacts manager, notes etc to manage your multiple tasks. People use Outlook to sync their different email accounts with Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail etc. Microsoft Outlook syncs with the inbox of these email accounts and downloads email messages to your computer. Not just PC users, but even those using handhelds make use of Outlook even on their smart phones, to check their email.

Though Outlook can effectively manage your different email accounts, over time it might start to slow down its response. The frequent use and regular syncing makes your Outlook clogged and sluggish. If you think Outlook is taking more time to open your email than usual, then it is high time you optimized your Outlook application. The following Outlook Help guidelines will help you perform this easily.

Instructions

• Launch Microsoft Outlook on your computer. If you have too many read email messages in your inbox folder, move the messages to other folders to clear space. Try to keep emails fewer than 100 in your inbox folder. Click on an email and drag it over to a folder on the left pane by holding down the mouse key. If you want to move multiple emails at once, simply select the checkboxes next to the email messages, and then click and drag one of them to the destination folder you want.
• Another method to make your Outlook perform fast is to archive your Inbox folder. You can clear your Inbox folder by configuring the archive settings. Right-click your inbox folder and select Properties from the popup menu. This will bring up the Properties window. Now click on the "AutoArchive" tab and select the period from the drop down date box to set the time period that you want an email to remain in the folder before it becomes archived. You can set this as Daily, Weekly or Monthly, depending upon the number of emails you receive.
• Also empty the trash folder on your Outlook and on your computer to clear up space and speed up your Outlook. Right-click on the Trash folder on the left pane of Outlook, and select the Empty option. Perform the same with Spam folder too. Now go to your computer desktop and empty the Trash/Recycle Bin, by right-clicking and selecting the Delete option.
• Finally restart Outlook to bring the changes.

Go through the Outlook Help menu to get more tips and tricks on making Outlook perform faster.

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