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Outlook 2007 attachments slow to open.

Updated: 18 Mar 2011 | 2 comments
Christopher O'Brien's picture
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We are running the latest version of SEP client, 11.0.6200.754 on our Widows XP SP3 systems.  My attachments are taking 10-15 seconds to open in Outlook 2007. It does not seem to matter what the attachment is, PDF, JPEG, DOCX, everything is slow. Disabling the client appears to resolve the issue.

I would rather not turn off the protection for Outlook.

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Mithun Sanghavi's picture
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2011
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Add/remove feature of SEP

Hello,

What are the features of endpoint being installed.

To start with you can install only AV/AS on the test machine and then check for the behaviour. You can later go to add/remove programs and add the other features of endpoint one by one. This way you will know the bottleneck area.

How to add or remove features to existing Symantec Endpoint Protection client installations

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH90936&locale=en_US

Disabling certain features is a way to narrow down the potential problem and is used only as a diagnostic tool or workaround instead of as a solution.

Also I am curious as to the CPU usage on the machine during this issue.

My guess is you have a process that is eating up the CPU, and that is what is causing the slowdown. So if you could check to see if any processes are using lot of the CPU and report back with the process name that would be great.

Mithun Sanghavi
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Chetan Savade's picture
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2011
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  Hi, Try doing some changes

 

Hi,

Try doing some changes in Antivirus & Antispyware policies as per below 
 
Go to Policies --> Antivirus and Antispyware policies ---> Edit assigned policy --> Click File system auto protect --> Click Advanced scanning and monitoring --> Select scan when a file is modified and uncheck scan when a file is backed up.
 
This is applicable only if you are using Symantec endpoint protection manager (SEPM).
 
Screenshot is attached for reference.
 
 

Thanks and Regards, 

Chetan Savade

Technical Support Analyst,

End Point Security, Enterprise Technical Support