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Make Outlook Stop Using Internet Explorer’s RSS Feeds
Have you ever noticed that Microsoft Outlook uses the feeds from your IE7 or IE8 common feed list? If you don’t actually use Outlook as an RSS reader, there’s really no reason to have that feature enabled and wasting space in your mailbox.
If you have a ton of feeds, this could also theoretically speed up Outlook—at the very least it makes your system a little cleaner.
Note: If you aren’t using Internet Explorer or Outlook as a feed reader, you could simply delete all of the RSS feeds.
Disable Outlook Common Feed RSS Sync
To turn this off, go to Tools –> Options from the menu and click the Advanced Options button on the Other tab.
Now you can uncheck the item “Sync RSS Feeds to the Common Feed List”.
Now that you’ve disabled the Sync feature, you can delete all of the feeds from under the RSS Feeds folder.
You’ll probably want to also empty your Deleted Items folder after removing the feeds.
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- Published 06/8/09
Was driving me crazie.
Thank you. I looked everywhere and could not find an answer.
Your solution was clear, easy to follow and solved the problem.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I HATED THOSE THINGS!
Thanks, the 10,000 articles showing up in my unread items every day was irritating.. :)
i don’t want to remeove all feeds, just the ones i am through with. i have followed your instructions but contiue to receive those feeds that i “cancelled”. i removed them from the list in Tools/Account Settings/RSS Feeds as well as the folder. any other suggestions?
THANK YOU!! YOU’RE HELPING ME MUCH!! THOSE SYNCHRONIZING THINGS just made my retrieving email so hard when I’m in remote area.
Thank you sooo much!!!
it works thanks………………
is there a way to get rss feeds in outlook 2003?
Thanks for this.
Was driving me nutts.
I missed reading a number of my important messages.
I dont understand how microsoft can become so crasy. it is like changing all thier classic items that worked ok. Now almost unusable when they decided to change things.
Crazy Crazy…
Thanks How-to-Geek – that’s another 12,000 pieces of unwanted Bill Gates’ junk got rid of!