Outlook receives fix for error that caused slow startup, confirms Microsoft

2023-10-21 10:05:00

In June of this year, Microsoft officially confirmed on its support page that Outlook, an email application that is part of Microsoft 365, had a performance problem that made the app slower at startup, keeping the home screen longer. than expected.

At the time, the Redmont giant had already signaled that the problem would be related to the synchronization of the entire OST (Outlook Data Files contain email messages, calendar, tasks and other items on your computer) most of the time when is initialized.

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Now, a few months after work began on resolution, Microsoft has confirmed that it has reached a solution to the problem in question, with availability starting in build 16929.15000 for the Microsoft 365 Beta Channel, with this update being

With this, the expectation according to Microsoft itself is that users who use the stable version of the program will have access to the correction at the end of November, through version 17029.20000 and higher, that is, this correction already exists but it should still take 1 month until be delivered to everyone.

For those currently experiencing this instability in Outlook, there are two potential workarounds to mitigate the problem:

1 — Change REST through the Windows registry:

Open Windows Registry Access Path HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftOffice16.0OutlookOptionsCalendar
Select the option RestUpdatesForCalendar and change the value to 1
restart the computer

2 — Specify the REST state in the account settings:

Go to File > Account Settings > Account Settings In the “Email Account” dialog box, click the Exchange account name, then click Change More Settings Advanced Note that the “Enable Shared Calendar Enhancements” option is enabled. Disable it and enable it immediately. Click OK. Outlook may warn you about the need to restart. No, but you can if you want. Click the X to close the Exchange Account Settings dialog box. Click Close.

So, if you have noticed this issue on your PC, keep an eye out for Outlook updates to install as soon as they are available to everyone.

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