Vista Slow or Unresponsive (outlook 2007 unresponsive)

All I have been fighting a battle with vista that has been killing me and many others. There are tons of posts about this issue but i think I have found it and it is an age long problem that has been around for years but we often forget about it.

How many of you have had the infamous I am typeing and it takes a while for the screen to catch up. or outlook hanging and saying "not responding" it seems now that I have found my problems. I was at a point that vista was almost unusable but I kept digging at it. and here is what I found.

First Turn off Aero it seems to improve things considerably. I did find going to classic view helped a ton. But I still had problems with outlook and other things.

Second I went into Anti-virus and excluded scans on ost’s, pst’s, and I excluded the outlook.exe executable.

I restarted my machine and what a surprise I have been functioning back at windows XP levels of speed again it is awesome.

About Mitch Roberson

Having worked as a consultant at multiple VAR’s as well as Microsoft. Mitch has had the experience of Seeing a multitude of environments. As well as working with both Network, Systems and Security teams. This has allowed him to broaden his knowledge in many areas of IT. Because of this broad experience it has driven him to an almost fanatical desire to have visibility in his environments so he can understand what is happening with in an environment. He still is responsible for day to day operations of Active Directory, Exchange, and much more. But his passion is to learn how applications communicate so he can decrease mean time to resolution.

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