Top 4 Ways to Overcome Slow Performance of Outlook

The dipped performance of Outlook is a clear indication of large Outlook personal folders (.PST) file. The problem with the large PST file does not stop here, instead ignoring such behavior of Outlook can corrupt the PST file, and thus can cause complete inaccessibility of your mailbox data.

Since you cannot control the number of emails in your mailbox, then what should be the best way to keep your Outlook neat and light? Well, mentioned below are top four methods by which, you can reduce the size of your Outlook PST file, and thus work smoothly with it:

Delete Unnecessary Items from Your Mailbox:

Sometimes cleaning up the ‘Deleted Items’ folder of your Outlook mailbox and deleting all other unnecessary items from your Outlook mailbox reduces the size of PST file. However, you should be very careful while deleting any file from your Outlook mailbox as it can cause loss of some important emails or other Outlook items.

Archive Outlook Mailbox Items:

At times archiving Outlook mailbox folders reduce the size of Outlook PST file. However, this too is not very effective method and does not give very satisfactory results in order to improve the performance of your Outlook.

Extraction of Large Email Attachments:

You can also try extracting large email attachments from your Outlook mailbox. However, this can again cause Outlook data loss if your emails are containing valuable Excel sheets, important documents, and precious image or video files.

Split Large PST into Smaller PST Files with Professional Tool:

One of the safest ways to reduce the size of your Outlook mailbox and maintain its high performance is splitting of large PST files. To do this you can take the help of any professional Outlook PST splitter software. Large number of Outlook PST splitters are available online that crop a large PST file into comparatively smaller PSTs, and thus make you feel that you are working in a newly installed Outlook.

Some of the advantages of having an efficient Outlook PST splitter are:

Reduced Outlook Corruption: One of the biggest advantages of having a PST file splitter is reduced level of Outlook PST file corruption, and thus inaccessibility of your precious data.

Improved Outlook Performance:

Moreover, with small PST file, you enjoy the better performance of your Outlook mailbox.

In this way a PST splitter is the easiest and most reliable way to get back the performance of your Outlook.

Russell Smith

About the Guest Author:

I am 'Russell Smith' and working as a data recovery specialist for email related applications.I write helpful articles about Microsoft Outlook and utility to break PST file for better performance of Outlook.