SPEEDING UP WINDOWS OUTLOOK

Keeping a nice, clean mailbox is probably one way of speeding up your Outlook experience. You can do this by using the Auto-Archive feature. Archiving simply moves the emails to a backup file.

You can turn on the built-in Auto Archive feature by heading into: Tools -> Options -> Other--- and setting up your preferences for when to archive—you may need to tweak them to fit your own emailing behavior, but the key is to keep your daily mailbox nice and small.

RESTORING WINDOWS OUTLOOK ARCHIVED FILES

The process for restoring the archived file is:

1. On the File menu, click Import and Export.
2. Click Import from another program or file. Click Next.
3. Click Personal Folder File (.pst). Click Next.
4. In the File to import box, change the default file name in the path from backup.pst to the name of the archive file you're importing from. Click Next.
5. Click the folder to import from. If you want, click Include subfolders.
6. Specify how you want Outlook to handle duplicate items.
7. Click Import items into the same folder in, and then click the folders with the same name as the folders you're importing from.
8. Click Finiish