OT: Caveat about Outlook

[Fyron]

Don't ever have outlook log anything. It was set to log stuff like commands issued and such for me, and it's log file grew to an enormous 2.8 GB! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Of course, this was over a year or so, but still. No wonder why my comp was acting weird! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif The window's partition had no space left for virtual memory and such. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

You can turn the "troubleshooting" logging stuff in Tools > Options > Maintenance.

[ May 27, 2003, 20:50: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Phoenix-D]

You know, you gennerally aren't supposed to leave troubshooting programs/commands on -all the time-. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[tesco samoa]

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[PvK]

I always delete all Versions of Outlook from every computer I can use, whenever possible. If I need to use MS Mail, I use Outlook Web Access, a browser interface which leaves everything on the server.

PvK

[Jack Simth]

Fyron - Did you miss the warning label? You know, the one that says "Microsoft" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ May 27, 2003, 22:23: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[Fyron]

Microsoft products normally work much better than people give them credit for.

P-D, the problem is that I don't recall ever turning it on in the first place. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

you should set your swap file to a permanent size, it works faster that way. otherwize, windows resizes it all the time. or so i've heard, and it seems to work better permanent. also, on the two sites i found, the referance was for 2.5 of your memory size.

[Fyron]

Actually, it is best to have the swap file make up the difference between your amount of RAM and a certain size, which I do not recall off the top of my head. It is not just 2x the RAM you have or anything like that.

And, setting a permanent swap file size only gives noticeable performance increases with low amounts of physical RAM on lower end systems. It really does not do much for most PCs.