Outlook 2013 - Slow Performance?

Has anyone made the switch from Office 2010 to 2013 and see the performance decrease difference? I disabled hardware acceleration and animations like many of the posts you will find in searches suggest, and that did fix the issues going between Mail, Calendar, and People...

BUT, is anyone seeing slowness when you first click reply and when you click send on an email? It seems to sit there for 5-7 seconds. If you start typing, it normally puts what you typed in to the email, but it is still annoying. Overall I really do not like Outlook 2013 too much (2010 MUCH better visually and stability wise), but you cannot use ActiveSync with 2010. So, 2013 it is...

Anyone have any fixes?

Solution 1:

For me what worked was checking 'Use Cached Exchange Mode' under File/Account Settings/Change Account/Server Settings.
(Earlier, I tried checking the "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" (from File/Options/Advanced/Display) and the Safe Mode (hit Ctrl while starting Outlook) but both didn't help.

Solution 2:

You're not the only one. It seems to be a common theme that Outlook 2013 is slower than Outlook 2010 (other users report an astonishing 7-second speed difference as well).

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officeitpropreview/thread/5c94c06f-d6ca-4447-8b41-d9bd52ad3e65

Judging from user feedback, this looks like the best suggestion on that forum:

In my case, text just disappears sometimes after inserting paragraphs in text with footnotes that causes the document to repaginate. Also, on one of my machines the typing speeds gradually but steadily slows down until I can watch characters appear almost only one per second. Saving resets the fight with the slouch.

Disabling hardware acceleration, subpixel positioning and showing content while dragging may have helped with the speed thing [slow performance].

Also check this out- goes into detail on disabling hardware acceleration. Worked for someone:

Increase Outlook 2013 performance?

Solution 3:

I also had this problem. I tried all the recommended fixes such as disabling hardware acceleration, checking add-ins etc... Everything was slow. In my case, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth I noticed that I had 2 Skydrive accounts connected, or rather 1 connected and another needing log-in info (this was my job Skydrive and my personal Skydrive). So I removed the personal Skydrive connection and got an instant speed boost. Why? Your guess is as good as mine.

By the way this is accessed in File/ Office Account