I have spent 14 hours and out of pocket money on a new Dell computer having
this issue. I tried to use my Palm Pilot, then an outside program to import
my contacts and saved email and tasks from an old laptop with Office 2000 to
a new one with Office 2003. Finally I exported to a .pst file, restarted
the computer to brand new condition (losing everything not backed up),
activated Office and imported the .pst file. Now it is running normally.
You would think they'd make this a lot easier.
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WW


"VEK" wrote:

When I import contacts from a .pst-file, outlook becomes very slow.
When I create a new mail profile (which is empty/no contacts imported yet),
outlook behaves normal again.