So I've been bitching to myself for for a while now about Outlook being so god awful slow so I started the morning poking around for some answers and found quite a few people talking about the included RSS feed reader being the root of all their evils. I didn't think I'd been using the RSS reader at all but lo and behold It was automatically bringing in feeds for Microsoft at Home, Microsoft at Work, and MSNBC, the last of which had 3500+ unread messages in it. So I did the following...
1. Remove the RSS feeds from my Accounts Settings (Tools>Account Settings>RSS Feeds)
2. Delete the storage folders from the RSS Feeds folder.
Once I restarted Outlook performance is now noticeably better. For those who have to go the extra mile mention was also made of telling Outlook to not try to use the Common RSS Feeds List, something that is probably redundant if you've removed all the RSS feeds already but may be a better option. Anyway to clear this...
3. Go to Tools>Options>Other>Advanced Options and clear the check box for "Sync RSS Feeds to the Common Feeds List."
4/30/2008 9:51 AM
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