Make Outlook start faster by removing unnecessary add-ons installed by iTunes

For anyone using Outlook (or any other Office program) it is a mystery that the proliferation of heavy add-ons or not very useful can cause performance problems or delays when starting some of these programs. Unfortunately, seeing the list of installed add-ons many times is not so easy to know which ones are necessary and which ones we can uninstall without problem.

However, researching around I came across 2 add-ons that are clearly useless in the vast majority of cases, and However, many users may have them installed and working in Outlook.These are “ Outlook Change Notifier ” and “ iTunes Outlook Addin ”, a couple of add-ons that are automatically added when you install iTunes, and that allow the Apple player to sync contacts and calendar with iPhone via USB cable.

The truth is that this is a function that hardly anyone uses. For one, many of us who use iTunes to play music don't have an iPhone or other Apple device (but the plug-in still adds and runs without prompting). And if we do use an iPhone, synchronization via iCloud or Microsoft Exchange is much more reliable and practical than manual synchronization from Outlook desktop.

But despite not giving us almost anything positive, the presence of these add-ons does cause us discomfort, such as delaying the start of Outlook, reducing stability and slowing down the synchronization of the accounts we have added to the mail client.Therefore, if we do not use the aggregation of contacts and calendar through iTunes, it is best to deactivate both add-ons

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To achieve this we must run Outlook with administrator permissions (by right-clicking on the icon we use to access it, and then selecting Run as administrator) and then go to the menu File > Options. In the configuration box that will be displayed, select the Add-ons tab>"

This will open a new dialog box where most of the installed add-ins for Outlook will appear. There you must select the 2 add-ons linked with iTunes (Outlook Change Notifier and iTunes Outlook Addin) and then press the remove button Finally we restart Outlook, and that's it. It's not like we're going to see a radical change after that, but it will improve the loading time and stability of the app to some extent.

Via | Bruceb News