DBinPhilly
04-27-2011, 04:15 AM
I know nothing about Outlook, but am forced to support it at one of my customers. He is using Office 2010.
Even though I have set up a shared file/folder system on the Network Access Device, the president of the company is more comfortable using Outlook as a filing system, and against my repeated recommendations, stores all his mail, including attachments, in Outlook.
He currently has an MS Outlook .pst of about 7 Gigabytes, and an Archive of about 5 gigabytes and it looks like he has both open all the time.
He complains to me bitterly about the speed of his workstation (he is running Windows 7 with 4 gigabytes of RAM), and usually has about a dozen windows open with several Excel spreadsheets, an Access database, several pdf's, and 3 or 4 emails.
His system freezes from time to time (several times a day apparently) and he reboots. He has no virus problem, no bots, no maleware.
Am I right about Outlook being the source of his problem? Does anyone have a solution?
Even though I have set up a shared file/folder system on the Network Access Device, the president of the company is more comfortable using Outlook as a filing system, and against my repeated recommendations, stores all his mail, including attachments, in Outlook.
He currently has an MS Outlook .pst of about 7 Gigabytes, and an Archive of about 5 gigabytes and it looks like he has both open all the time.
He complains to me bitterly about the speed of his workstation (he is running Windows 7 with 4 gigabytes of RAM), and usually has about a dozen windows open with several Excel spreadsheets, an Access database, several pdf's, and 3 or 4 emails.
His system freezes from time to time (several times a day apparently) and he reboots. He has no virus problem, no bots, no maleware.
Am I right about Outlook being the source of his problem? Does anyone have a solution?