Archive for the Performance Category
Outlook 2010 – It’s a Love Hate Thing Argh!
I upgraded to Office 2010 earlier this year when I purchased a new PC and have been adjusting ever since. At first, I didn’t see much not to like (other than having to find a few things again). But then, disaster struck – Microsoft removed on of my …
Arrow-Tip #51 Limit Your Mailbox Size to Achieve Inbox Zero
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that for the past week I’ve been very focused on maintaining Inbox Zero status. For those of you who don’t know, “Inbox Zero” means that at the end of the work day your Inbox has zero messages in it. Yes, …
Loving my Blackberry Tour
On Sunday I decided I’d finally had enough of my 2nd Blackberry (8830 World Edition) that’s track ball kept sticking and that kept asking me to “say a comand” when the battery cover wasn’t falling off. Obviously I had issues with the 8830, but I have to say that I …
Arrow-Tip #48 Transitioning from Outlook 2003 to 2007
As many of my early readers know, I resisted the upgrade from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 for a long time (see Arrow-Tips #22 Should You Upgrade to Outlook 2007). Since that March 2008 post, Microsoft has released service packs for both Vista and Office 2007 which is always one of …
Arrow-Tip #41 Outlook Plug-Ins Take Three
In Arrow-Tip #23 I talked about Outlook plug-ins that may help increase your efficiency. That post was so popular that I decided to expand on it in another post called More on Outlook plug-ins back in April of last year. Well a lot can and did happen in …
Arrow-Tip #38 Improving Outlook Performance & Stability
For those of us heavily dependent on Outlook whether for email, calendar or contact management, the idea of Outlook crashing is unthinkable. But as many of you have learned the hard way, it can happen from time to time. My Facebook and Twitter pal Jim Turner recently ran …
How to Check Your Mailbox/Personal Folders Size
Even if you don’t have an Exchange Server Administrator sending you notices when your mailbox gets too big, it is still a good idea to keep an eye on how big your local Outlook files are so that you can keep them below the corruption danger zone (see Reducing Attachment …
Arrow-Tip #24 Reducing Attachment Size to Speed Up Outlook
More and more clients are experiencing issues with the size of their Outlook mailbox which can lead to corrupted data and very slow performance. One of the largest hogs of mailbox storage space is taken up by attachments so that is one of the first places I usually look …
How to Convert Your Archive Folders to Quarterly Archive Folders
In Arrow-Tip #9 I discussed why you should archive your Microsoft Outlook mailbox. One of the reasons for archiving is to keep the size of your mailbox down to help enhance performance. However, if you continue to archive to the same set of archive folders, you will begin …
How to Track Your OutTwit in a Separate .pst File
I started using OutTwit which is a Microsoft Outlook plug in that allows you to manage your Twitter activities from Outlook last week and so far I really like it. One issue that does concern me though is that if I let my OutTwit folder go for a few …