There are many reasons your computer could be being slow. For example, your computer may have been left on for a significant amount of time which causes background processes to build up which use more system resources therefore making you computer seem slower.

The best way to resolve this however would to be to give your computer a reboot as this will close any unused background processes. If this does not resolve the slowness you could try opening task manager if you’re on windows to see if a large amount of your systems resources are being used by any services or applications.

To change your password, you would press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together and then click change password. If you are using a remote desktop server, e.g. use an icon to connect to the server, you could press Ctrl+Alt+End which would open the same menu but in the server.

This issue could be due to cached mode being enabled inside Outlook.

Cached mode essentially caches (stores) some of your Outlook data on the local pc for offline use as an .ost file. An .ost file is an offline outlook data file used by Microsoft Outlook for cached mailboxes to work offline. Depending on how big your mailbox is this can take up a lot of storage space. (An .ost file has a limit of 50GB which is also the limit of a standard outlook mailbox.)

To check if cached mode is enabled you would navigate to the dropdown that says account settings, then click account settings again the you would double click on your mailbox then this will bring up a popup which will say cached exchange mode with a tick box next to it.

Usually this would be okay but some Microsoft 365 licenses increase the size limit of a mailbox to 100GB. Which means if you’re in cached mode and you have a license that increases the maximum mailbox size, Outlook will try to make the .ost file larger than it physically can be.

Therefore, the only way to resolve this issue is to either turn off cached mode completely or turn down the amount off time “mail to keep offline” is set to.

If you’re at a loss as to why you have slow WiFi, think about the wireless channel that your router is running on as it might be congested. If you change that it’s still slow, there’s a possibility that your router is faulty, or the walls in your house are too thick, or your not close enough to the router and need to consider extenders. Here are some ways to improve WiFi signal in your business.