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Microsoft Outlook Running Slow with Gmail IMAP ? Speed It Up
IMAP in Gmail is a godsend feature for people who live life inside Microsoft Outlook. You read messages offline in Microsoft Outlook and they are automatically marked as read on Gmail server the next time you go online. Similarly, when you delete messages in your Gmail Inbox, they disappear from your Outlook Inbox as well. [...]
13 Tips to Speed Up Microsoft Outlook 2007
While Outlook 2007 offers many new features that do indeed offer real benefits it can come at a price – performance. On my Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM Outlook 2007 originally took a good 20 seconds to fire up from a fully booted PC and appeared to be constantly sluggish. So what can [...]
What Slows Windows Down?
Introduction The Process What Should This Show Us? The Offending Software Results and Conclusions Introduction Any computer user that’s owned and installed software onto their computer knows that the more you install, the slower the beast runs. Most also know that it’s not just quantity and that what you install plays a large factor in [...]
What Really Slows Windows Down
Preamble The Host System The New Benchmarks Norton Internet Security 2007 The Contenders Results and Conclusions Preamble A week ago, I performed a study demonstrating how certain applications can slow down Windows. If you didn’t catch it, I’ll sum things up now. I took a clean Virtual PC install of Windows XP Pro (SP2a) and [...]
What Slows Down a Computer That Used to Be Really Fast?
It probably seems like yesterday your PC was going full speed ahead. With high speed Internet cable intact and plenty of RAM loaded up, you never had to wait for anything in cyberspace to appear right in front of your eyes. If you wanted a particular a website or program to run, all you had [...]
Improve computer capability
Defragmenting straightens everything up — sort of like arranging the books in your bookcase by subject. Unfortunately, the built-in disk defragmenter in Windows has always been a sluggard, and you’re not the first person to complain that it stalls out in mid-operation. Fortunately, the after-market has produced some good alternatives, the most popular of which [...]
A free utility that really does make your PC run faster
Support Alert, February 21, 2008 A free utility that really does make your PC run faster I’m skeptical about products that claim to make your PC run faster. I’ve tried many of these over the years and for the most part they either didn’t work or they messed up my PC so badly that any [...]