Vista - Vista and Office 2003 specifically Outlook problem

I have a new notebook running Vista Ultimate (160G T7200 Hard drive Dual core
duo processor, 2 g ram) I installed Office Pro 2003. Out look runs
unbelievabley slow. It takes minutes to look up a contact. There is a several
secon delay for each character when typing an email address, etc. Anyone
have any idea why? Will upgrading to 07 fix? It is so slow it is virtually
useless!

Thanks

Hi,
I'm not an expert on Vista Ultimate - I've used Home Premium mostly. But I
thought I might caution you about upgrading to Office '07.

I normally don't post this kind of opinion but I was actually told by a real
Microsoft Representative/Tech Support Agent over the phone that running
Office '07 takes a lot of resources and that the program may be too much for
a laptop to handle. And my laptop is new and a core 2 duo as well.

I'd hate to see your problem get worse, so I thought I'd share this with
you. I hope it helps,
Brightbelt



"AlwaysOverPacks" <AlwaysOverPacks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:38D8B48F-19E9-4647-BF9A-76FAC439B857@microsoft.com...
>I have a new notebook running Vista Ultimate (160G T7200 Hard drive Dual
>core
> duo processor, 2 g ram) I installed Office Pro 2003. Out look runs
> unbelievabley slow. It takes minutes to look up a contact. There is a
> several
> secon delay for each character when typing an email address, etc. Anyone
> have any idea why? Will upgrading to 07 fix? It is so slow it is
> virtually
> useless!
>
> Thanks

Also - for the record, I had actually bought and installed the Office '07
upgrade and upon the recommendation from the Microsoft Rep, I uninstalled it
and returned to Office '03.
Thanks, Frank



"Frank Bright" <Brightbelt@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:eFbkhP9fHHA.668@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I'm not an expert on Vista Ultimate - I've used Home Premium mostly. But
> I thought I might caution you about upgrading to Office '07.
>
> I normally don't post this kind of opinion but I was actually told by a
> real Microsoft Representative/Tech Support Agent over the phone that
> running Office '07 takes a lot of resources and that the program may be
> too much for a laptop to handle. And my laptop is new and a core 2 duo as
> well.
>
> I'd hate to see your problem get worse, so I thought I'd share this with
> you. I hope it helps,
> Brightbelt
>
>
>
> "AlwaysOverPacks" <AlwaysOverPacks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:38D8B48F-19E9-4647-BF9A-76FAC439B857@microsoft.com...
>>I have a new notebook running Vista Ultimate (160G T7200 Hard drive Dual
>>core
>> duo processor, 2 g ram) I installed Office Pro 2003. Out look runs
>> unbelievabley slow. It takes minutes to look up a contact. There is a
>> several
>> secon delay for each character when typing an email address, etc. Anyone
>> have any idea why? Will upgrading to 07 fix? It is so slow it is
>> virtually
>> useless!
>>
>> Thanks
>
>

"AlwaysOverPacks" <AlwaysOverPacks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:38D8B48F-19E9-4647-BF9A-76FAC439B857@microsoft.com...
>I have a new notebook running Vista Ultimate (160G T7200 Hard drive Dual
>core
> duo processor, 2 g ram) I installed Office Pro 2003. Out look runs
> unbelievabley slow. It takes minutes to look up a contact. There is a
> several
> secon delay for each character when typing an email address, etc. Anyone
> have any idea why? Will upgrading to 07 fix? It is so slow it is
> virtually
> useless!
>
> Thanks

Your problem is not common to all Vistsa installations. Mine works just
fine. Accordingly, I doubt if Office 2007 will fix the problem since it
seems to be unique to your installation.

"AlwaysOverPacks" <AlwaysOverPacks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>I have a new notebook running Vista Ultimate (160G T7200 Hard drive Dual
>core
> duo processor, 2 g ram) I installed Office Pro 2003. Out look runs
> unbelievabley slow. It takes minutes to look up a contact. There is a
> several
> secon delay for each character when typing an email address, etc. Anyone
> have any idea why? Will upgrading to 07 fix? It is so slow it is
> virtually
> useless!

You might want to post to one of the Office setup newsgroup or an Outlook
newsgroup. Look under microsoft.public.outlook
microsoft.public.office

Yours is not a normal situation. Many are running Office / Outlook 2003
fine in Vista.

You need to fix the underlying problem. Generally an upgrade would not be
the fix.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Close Outlook. Find and rename outcmd.dat to .old

You will need to rebuild any custom toolbars or customizations as the file outcmd.dat controls how the toolbars display. When it becomes corrupted, it will cause Outlook to hang

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"AlwaysOverPacks" <AlwaysOverPacks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:38D8B48F-19E9-4647-BF9A-76FAC439B857@microsoft.com...
>I have a new notebook running Vista Ultimate (160G T7200 Hard drive Dual core
> duo processor, 2 g ram) I installed Office Pro 2003. Out look runs
> unbelievabley slow. It takes minutes to look up a contact. There is a several
> secon delay for each character when typing an email address, etc. Anyone
> have any idea why? Will upgrading to 07 fix? It is so slow it is virtually
> useless!
>
> Thanks

Frank Bright wrote:
> Also - for the record, I had actually bought and installed the Office '07
> upgrade and upon the recommendation from the Microsoft Rep, I uninstalled it
> and returned to Office '03.
> Thanks, Frank

That's just sounds too ridiculous and very "fishy" to even be close to
being true. I have Office 2007 installed on a 4 yr old laptop that has
a 1.3 gig CPU, 1 gig of RAm and 32 megs of vram. I have Vista Ultimate
installed and it runs just fine although it will only run in Vista Basic
mode (not enough vram for Aero).
Office 2007 run great!
Tell me why you would purchase and install Office 2007, then call an MS
rep and he tells you to uninstall '07 and reinstall '03.
For what reason? They're not that much different.
Care to tell us a story that's makes more sense?
Frank, the real one.
(snort)

well I have a Vista Laptop with a T5600 2 gigs of ram and Outlook 2007. it
works fast and efficiently. No complaints.
G


"AlwaysOverPacks" <AlwaysOverPacks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:38D8B48F-19E9-4647-BF9A-76FAC439B857@microsoft.com...
>I have a new notebook running Vista Ultimate (160G T7200 Hard drive Dual
>core
> duo processor, 2 g ram) I installed Office Pro 2003. Out look runs
> unbelievabley slow. It takes minutes to look up a contact. There is a
> several
> secon delay for each character when typing an email address, etc. Anyone
> have any idea why? Will upgrading to 07 fix? It is so slow it is
> virtually
> useless!
>
> Thanks

i am running VistaHome Premium with Office Pro 2003; no probs at all

"Rock" wrote:

> "AlwaysOverPacks" <AlwaysOverPacks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> >I have a new notebook running Vista Ultimate (160G T7200 Hard drive Dual
> >core
> > duo processor, 2 g ram) I installed Office Pro 2003. Out look runs
> > unbelievabley slow. It takes minutes to look up a contact. There is a
> > several
> > secon delay for each character when typing an email address, etc. Anyone
> > have any idea why? Will upgrading to 07 fix? It is so slow it is
> > virtually
> > useless!
>
> You might want to post to one of the Office setup newsgroup or an Outlook
> newsgroup. Look under microsoft.public.outlook
> microsoft.public.office
>
> Yours is not a normal situation. Many are running Office / Outlook 2003
> fine in Vista.
>
> You need to fix the underlying problem. Generally an upgrade would not be
> the fix.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
>

Will uinstalling and reinstalling help?

"AlwaysOverPacks" wrote:

> I have a new notebook running Vista Ultimate (160G T7200 Hard drive Dual core
> duo processor, 2 g ram) I installed Office Pro 2003. Out look runs
> unbelievabley slow. It takes minutes to look up a contact. There is a several
> secon delay for each character when typing an email address, etc. Anyone
> have any idea why? Will upgrading to 07 fix? It is so slow it is virtually
> useless!
>
> Thanks