Friday, July 14, 2006

Getting My Outlook up to Speed

I just cleaned up my Outlook. I was having all kinds of problems with it locking up and having to run Detect and Repair often. My outlook.pst file was over 1/2 a meg. So I deleted & archived and deleted & archived (would you believe a large part of it was my CyberStar folder?) and got it down to 250k. Then I compacted (File>DataFile Management>Settings>Compact Now) it.
(That took about a half hour).

Then I ran scanpst.exe (which I found in C:\Program Files\Common
Files\System\MSMAPI\1033 folder) on my outlook.pst file (usually found in the c:\Documents and Settings\myname\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder). It found over 40 "corruptions" and fixed them all.

Now my outlook is smoking.