Improve the Performance of Outlook – Here’s How

This article contains some tips that improve the performance of Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. So, if you are encountering any performance degradation in your Outlook application, then stay with us till the last. Because in the end, you will know how to improve the performance of Outlook to increase your productivity.

Note: If you are implementing these tips which we are going to discuss in this article, then make sure that you will follow all the steps properly to protect your application and your data.

What Kind of Performance Issues are Users Encountering In Outlook 2016?

There are lots of users reporting performance issue like

• Outlook seems to be unresponsive after a few minutes of opening.
• Microsoft Outlook freeze and stop responding for a long time.
• Facing data corruption in Outlook
• Insufficient storage space issue

Reasons for Performance Issues in Outlook.

• In the absence of the latest service pack and update.
• Oversized PST or OST files.
• In the case of using the third-party add-ins.
• Third-party anti-virus software interplay.
• Inefficient computer specification

How to Improve the Performance of Outlook?

In order to increase the performance of Outlook in this section, we are going to discuss all the possible solutions for the above-discussed reasons that are responsible for creating performance issues in Outlook.

Absence of Latest Service Pack and Updates Outlook.

If you are using the Outlook service pack, then you might face lagging freezing issues in your Outlook program. So to overcome this issue we recommend that go and install the latest application service pack or updates Outlook program. Follow the listed below steps to update your Outlook.

For Outlook 2013, 2016, and 2019

• First, open your Outlook program.
• Now go to the File option.
• From the File, option choose the account or office account.
• Now under product information option select update options then click on update now.

For Outlook 2010

• Firstly, open the Outlook 2010 application on your system
• Go to the File option and choose the Help option.
• Now from the help option and click on the Check for Updates.

Oversized PST file and OST file

We know that Outlook stores its data in PST file format or OST file format. And we also know that it ha a certain storage limit. Meanwhile, many of us think that it is enough space for an email client but I think you might be thinking wrong. Because the Outlook program is always suffering from mailbox data duplication issues and duplicate items like duplicate emails, calendar entries, contacts, tasks, journals are one of the major reasons for consuming your mailbox data space. And we said above that oversized data will affect Outlook performance. Also in some critical scenarios, you can also lose your data due to data corruption. So it is important to remove duplicate data from the Outlook mailbox.

But the sad reality is that Microsoft Outlook does not provide any direct method to eliminate duplicate files from Outlook PST and OST files which improve the performance of Outlook.

So at this troublesome situation users have only one solution and that is to try an automated solution for removing duplicates files from Outlook and enhance the performance of the Outlook program.

SysTools Outlook Duplicate Remover is one the most trusted and suggested tool by the professionals to delete duplicate items from Outlook. It a tool that is capable to duplicate items from Outlook PST, OST, and also from BAK files.

Also Read: How to Resolve Getting Multiple Copies of the Same Emails in Outlook

Using Third-Party Add-Ins

If you are using third-party or nonessential add-ins in your Microsoft Outlook, then you may face performance degradation in the Outlook program. To increase the performance of Outlook it important to remove those nonessential add-ins from your Outlook.

Here are the steps to view all installed add-ins in Outlook.

• Open Outlook program
• Click on the File option from the top ribbon menu bar
• Now click on the option and then click add-ins to display all the installed adults in yours.

Note: If you want to ensure whether the performance degradation is caused by add-ins, run the Outlook application in safe mode. To run the outlook program in safe mode, hold the control button when you start the Outlook.

Are you Using Third-Party Antivirus?

If you are using any antivirus including integration with Outlook, then you may encounter performance issues in the Outlook program. So in the case when you experiencing performance issues in your Outlook program, then disable all Outlook integration with the anti-virus software or you can also disable antivirus software add-ins that you installed in Outlook.

Note: Beware by using this workaround because this workaround may make your computer more vulnerable to attack by any malicious software or virus. We recommend you that do not try this but we are providing the information so that put this technique in our list.

An Efficient Computer Specification

To improve the performance of Outlook always make sure that the computer meets all requirements for the version of Outlook you are going to use. Because if you are computer specification is lower than the minimum requirement then it’s obvious that you will experience performance issues like freezing hanging stop responding in your Outlook program. So if you are specification is low then upgrade your computer to enhance the performance of your Outlook program.

Conclusion

There are lots of users around the globe experiencing performance degradation in their Outlook program. So if you are one of those users, then go through this article because here we have discussed all the possible reasons include with a solution that will help you on how to improve the performance of Outlook 2016, 2019, and all the below versions