Outlook is a most famous email client introduced by Microsoft. New versions of Outlook i.e. Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 are highly in demand as they are bundled with very vast and extensive features. Vast and extensive features of Outlook are:
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- Social Media Connectivity
- Mailbox customization
- Weather bar Integration
- Attachment Reminder
- Data File compression
To sum all features of Outlook I can say outlook is all new. But while using outlook we usually faces a few common problems like Outlook stops responds to activities, outlook freezes or hangs, emails get stuck in mailbox and delivered late, email messages are received lately, problems in deleting file etc. Outlook performance slows down when work with Office 365 environment. Following are few steps that help you to resolve outlook annoying performances issues.
Outlook Annoying Performances Troubleshooting Tips:
Archive Outlook Mailbox:
Outlook mailbox stores all data in PST file format. Every outlook user has thousands of emails in their mailboxes. Most of time they forgot to delete unwanted emails from their mailboxes and Outlook mailbox sizes starts growing. This growing mailbox works as barrier for your outlook performance. To report this problem I would like to advise all Outlook users to maintain size of their outlook data file always.
Customize all mails monthly and make a new outlook data file for every month. By doing this outlook mailbox size will remain in maintained state and also there is no chance of PST file corruption.
NOTE: Growing mailbox size directly leads to corruption in PST file.
Disable all Unwanted Add-Ons:
To make outlook working more efficient and fast Microsoft provides a variety of Add-Ons. In which few add-ons are available to user at free of cost while few add-ons are need to purchase. Yes I agree add-ons will make our work easy but they also hamper outlook activity as they also occupy space on your outlook account. To clear your doubts follow few simple steps:
- Run Outlook in safe mode or also you can write command simply outlook.exe /safe)
- Notice speed of Outlook in safe mode. Check it’s slow or fast.
- In case if it seems Outlook is running slow then visit Trust center,
- Disable your suspect add-ons
- Restart Outlook
By doing these steps you will easily resolve your problem
Compact Outlook Data File
As I said above large sized Outlook data file leads to loss in data. Perfect solution to deal this problem in user can compact size of Outlook data file or also they can split their large sized outlook data files. To execute such operation successfully I would advised to use efficient PST Splitter and compact PST tool. After performing these operations now check again still outlook is behavior is annoying then it’s a clear sign your PST has got corrupt. Now, it’s time to repair your corrupt PST file.
Repair Corrupt Outlook Data File (PST)
Outlook data file works as a repository for user mailbox information. There are lot of another reasons for damage of PST file that may be: add-ons issue, hardware compatibility issue, virus scan and outgrowing size of mailbox. Whatever are the reasons behind the damage of PST file doesn’t matter? One complete solution is repairing of PST file. Microsoft provides a free utility to repair your damage PST file named as Inbox Repair Tool. There are few limitations of using scanpst.exe i.e
- Scanpst.exe will repair only header part of file.
- Scanpst.exe is applicable for PST files whose size 2GB only.
- Scanpst.exe will not let user to repair severely damaged PST file.
To overcome these limitations of Inbox Repair tool use professional PST Repair software. One such recommended software is Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST repair. Users can get this software from under-mentioned website: http://www.scanpst.net/
By following above mentioned steps user will overcome with the Outlook Annoying performances.
