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  1. 06-28-2006, 11:29 AM #1
    LostBok
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    Outlook chews LOTS of memory!

    I'm running Outlook on my laptop:

    IBM T42, 2Gb DDR333, 1.8Ghz Centrino, 60Gb Toshiba HDD.
    winXP SP2, Office 2003 SP1

    The laptop is logged onto the company domain and it is setup for one of the Exchange 2003 servers.

    When I launch Outlook 2003, it consumes >900Mb memory!

    I first noticed this in task manager and when you examine the detailed proceseses in Task Manager, you can see that OUTLOOK.EXE loads approx 60-80Mb straight into memory and then around 900Mb into the "VM Size" column - this happen as soon as I launch Outlook, before I've even chosen if I wish to work online or offline.

    e.g. double click "Outlook", memory = 31Mb, VM size = 840Mb, click "Online" and it jumps to about 80Mb in use and a 900Mb VM size.

    Any ideas??
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  2. 06-28-2006, 01:06 PM #2
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    Outlook is a pig when it comes to using system resources. You have 2gigs in this machine so Outlook is probably grabbing all it can....Unused ram is wasted ram...

    Are there any similar machines in the office you can compare yours too?

    Probably wouldn't hurt to get SP2 for Office 2003..
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  3. 06-28-2006, 02:42 PM #3
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    i would suggest to switch to ThunderBird (Mozilla FireFox email software)


    it's lightning fast, and easy on memory, very PDA friendly as well
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  4. 06-28-2006, 03:22 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by AllGamer
    i would suggest to switch to ThunderBird (Mozilla FireFox email software)


    it's lightning fast, and easy on memory, very PDA friendly as well
    The OP may not have a choice on what he/she is allowed to run as a client. But I agree with the advice.
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