Question : Outlook 2007 very slow to start - up to six minutes

I am running Office 2007 SP1 and XP Pro SP3 on a fairly good spec notebook.
Up until Monday of this week, Outlook started up in << 30 seconds. Suddenly,
it takes up to 6 minutes to start and get to update.

I am running Outlook in cached exchange mode to a hosted Exchange 2003
server, and have been for over a year. It connects via RPC/HTTP. The startup
now runs thus:-

Click on the Exchange icon.
The profile choice box appears immediately.
Click on OK for the default profile
Outlook shows "Not responding" in the title bar for up to three minutes.
The password dialogue box appears and I enter my username and password.
The password box disappears and Outlook shows "Not responding" in the title
bar for up to three minutes more.
My inbox appears and starts to update from the Exchange server.
Outlook runs normally with no hang-ups or speed issues.

I have installed the profile on a second computer and do not have the same
issues, Outlook runs normally. This would suggest a machine specific problem,
rather than server or connnection.

Looking at the task manager during Outlook startup, there are no obvious
issues, with 95-98% CPU free.

Any ideas?

Madrilleno

Answer : Outlook 2007 very slow to start - up to six minutes

Unfortunately it seems that everything we try it would not fix the issue that you experience... In this situation I would consider re-imaging or reinstalling the affected machine. In the end, it would be the fastest solution to this issue.