As Outlook needs to manage numerous email messages, it’s normal for Outlook to suffer occasional hiccups.
However, if you notice Outlook taking too long to open or load, it could be a severe issue. Also, you could face other issues like inbox taking too long to load and switching between them is painfully slow.
Sometimes it’s a minor glitch, and restarting the application or your system can solve the problem. But if the problem persists, you may require advanced troubleshooting.
Why Is Outlook Loading Too Slowly?
While multiple factors can lead to this issue, some of the most possible ones are as follows.
How to Fix Outlook Loading Too Slowly?
Before you move on to the technical fixes, verify if yoursystem meets the minimum requirementsto use Outlook on your system.
Also, the antivirus software can sometimes have false negatives and interfere with the Outlook app. So, try disabling the firewall temporarily and see if it solves your problem. Regardless, enable it as soon as possible to protect your system from various threats and malware.
On the other hand, ensure your network connection isn’t slow and is stable. If Outlook continues to load slowly, you may go through the following fixes.
Adding too many add-ins can slow down the Outlook app and thus result in your messages loading too slowly.
Furthermore, some add-ins might be corrupt or incompatible and cause issues by interfering with the app. To know if add-ins are causing issues, you may even run Outlook in safe mode. And if it works as expected, the add-ins are probably faulty.
Therefore, you should remove the unused/faulty add-ins and only keep the essential ones that you frequently use.
Also, to know if a particular add-in is causing the issue, disable the add-ins one by one until you find the problematic one. After that, you may remove it from the Outlook app. Some users have reported the antivirus add-in causing the issue, so disabling it could solve your problem.
Here’s how to disable/remove add-ins in the Outlook app.
Reduce the Size of Outlook Data Files
