Option 2: Switch off search indexing for OutlookĪll you have to do is remove Outlook from the locations Windows Search is set to index. If you wait long enough the process will complete and Outlook might load up quickly again. The problem is most likely because Windows is taking a long time to index everything in your Outlook folders. I am quite happy to use Outlook’s built in search facility.
It’s going to take Windows 10 a very long time to index everything I have in Outlook – but there is no need for that. I guess it is because I am terrible at email housekeeping and my Outlook message store is massive with thousands of messages spread across hundreds of folders. I did not have Indexing switched on before but while I was searching for a file in Windows Explorer a message popped up to say I could speed up searching by turning indexed search on. I eventually realised what was causing the problem – Windows Indexing. It appeared to have crashed but if left long enough it loaded up. Then all of a sudden Microsoft Outlook (2007) was taking forever to load up.
I recently upgraded to Windows 10 (from Windows 8.1 Pro) and everything was going pretty well.
How to fix the problem in Windows 10 which makes Microsoft Outlook 2007 take ages to start up or appears to hang or crash.
