Comments on: Lookout 2000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:28:05 +0000

I have spurts of extreme slowness (mouse crippling levels) running Outlook 2000 / Word 2000, occurring on SP2 (SR1a) (NOT SP3 – I have not applied this yet) particularly on W98 but also sometimes on W2kSP3. Word is NOT the default mail editor. Any more ideas?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:13:04 +0000

Last issue of woodys watch tracked this down to using the 'office insecurity patch'. Put the backup copy of the dll it patches back before doing office SP3 and you should be ok. After that, you don't need the 'office insecurity patch' anymore, you can use atopt (or is that attopt?)since sp3 fixes the problem of not being able to change the attachment stuff through the registry. OTOH, if you reinstalled windows, it's probably not this bug that bit you. Worth checking nonetheless…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 04:01:48 +0000

We have had this issue at work with Outlook 2000 and the issue is not with Outlook, it is with Word. Our solution at work is to make sure Word is not the default email editor. At this point, we are only using Office 2000 SR-1, so it may not solve your issue. However, its worth a shot.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 03:21:49 +0000

A workaround, yes… but that has to be really annoying. I've switched to Entourage as my PIM. I bought an iBook, so I've got my email where ever I go (funny thing, but my Jornada is slowly losing it's usefulness). Hope you find a good PIM that doesn't suck… -up resources like outlook does. ;)