If your Outlook system shows abnormal symptoms in the delivery of actions and shows sluggishness in responding to the comments that you give, then one thing is for sure that you are approaching a disaster in which you will lose the files and data stored in it for ever. The reasons behind this system malfunction can be stated under many headings, but in most of cases this is the result of the increased file size, that you have been storing for past days of hectic schedules. The best way to solve this issue is to Split large PST files.
Is it you that caused the problem? Your MS Outlook application carries sufficient number of folders and provides you with the provision to create subfolders in it. Usually your own actions are the reasons behind the dramatic increase of the PST file size. There can be action that you delivered unknowingly in order to comfort yourself like, instead of having a Custom contact folder with only a few subfolders, you installed a custom contact form and for the rest of the folders and subfolders, set this new custom form as the default. And you continued adding contacts to the contact folders that already was there and on the other hand enhancing the dramatic increase of the PST files. This can be one reason for the increased size of the PST files thus resulting in the slow performance of the Outlook.
How to reduce the size of PST: The increased PST file size can cause PST file corruption and thus resulting in the slow performance of the Outlook. The problems with the PST file size are more with the ANSI PST files (which is used in MS Outlook older versions like Outlook 97, Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002 and XP). Now the PST files had crossed the limit of the storage capacity and the only way remained is to perform the Split PST process. The query of how to reduce the size of PST file can be solved by practicing the given methods
· Perform the PST Archiving: Reduce the size of a PST file, by creating new PST files and move some of the contacts from the large PST file to the new PST file.
· Perform the Cleaning: Reduce the size of PST file by deleting and removing the read and unnecessary emails and the list of contacts from the folder.
· Split PST software: Utilize the facilities of a quality utility, that is a extraneous software with the ability to split PST file that is huge in size to several small PST files. PCVITA Split Magic is software, created with the advance algorithms which will specifically split the file size and not the data that the file contains, that means no data alteration will occur if you split PST file with the Split magic software
