Hi,

I am running Outlook 2007 (non-beta, 12.0.4518.1014) on a relatively new
laptop (Thinkpad T60p, 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, XP), with all extensions turned off,
RSS unused, one exchange and one POP account. WDS 3 / Instant Search are
NOT installed.

I have a 4.6GB OST (Exchange 03) and two PSTs, of 2.5GB and 0.7GB in size.
My job and my personality require me to have relatively ready access to a
large number of historic emails, and Outlook 2003 had NO problems with this.

I like the interface and some of the new features of Outlook 2007. I thought
Instant Search would be very useful but uninstalled it in an effort to speed
things up. But it is wonderfully, terribly, horribly slow. Starting new
messages, moving messages between folders, send and receive, inserting
pictures into HTML messages all involve a 1-5 second lag - as does pretty
much everything but typing text into a Plain Text message while nothing else
is happening.

Before I uninstall, go back to Outlook 2003 and install Google Desktop
Search, could someone tell me if there's hope on the horizon for Service Pack
that will improve performance, or a silver bullet tweak to make this better?

I have already spent hours defragging the hard drive, eliminating some mail,
chasing around some performance tweaks (turning off extensions helped), etc.

I find it hard to believe that the only advice (after "Turn off all
extensions") for most new users is "Archive your mail", when Outlook 2003 did
just fine with very large mailboxes. Several people that I know have similar
size mailboxes and archiving mail to a place where it is either unsearchable
or in a different hierarchy of folders is untenable. We are also folks that
don't want to tolerate unresponsive applications for things as simple as
sending mail. Do testers for this software have only the fastest machines
and smallest mailboxes?

What do we do??

When will this be fixed??

Thanks!