Slow Outlook – Fix the confusion in the KB

Regarding http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925

I didn’t have any of the registry keys and I found the article a bit confusing. Especially when I could not copy and paste from the article to regedit.

The worse thing is that copy and paste from the KB to outlook fails. So I have 4 suggestions for the KB:
#A – Add another column

Figure: #1 Add a column in front to indicate ANSI or Unicode

Figure: #1 Add a column in front to indicate ANSI or Unicode

#B – Copy & paste from the KB doesn’t work because regedit doesn’t allow 0x0000c800 as hex number

Figure: You should be able to copy and paste from the KB to the Regedit

Figure: You should be able to copy and paste from the KB to the Regedit

#C – Add a little explanation on how to get the HEX numbers
E.g.:

  1. Open calc.exe
  2. Switch to “Programming mode”
  3. Make sure to have the calculator switched to “Dec”
    Calculator
  4. Enter the decimal number that you want to have as filesize
  5. Click on “Hex”
  6. Use that number


#D – How do I know that my changes were applied?

Tell me?