First startup experience after upgrading Outlook 2007 with SP2
Amartya commented on my previous Windows 7 blog post that network activity notification icon issue would be resolved by upgrading to Office 2007 SP2 (http://www.infosysblogs.com/microsoft/2009/05/windows_7_system_tray.html#comment-123052). Over the weekend I upgraded my system with Office 2007 SP2. As i suspected still my network notification icon mismatch problem persists 
Today I find that Outlook is taking too much time to start up. I got a dialog that system is Preparing Outllook for first use. After 10 mins when I looked at the dialog I found the following ( 45 mins remaning). Check the below picture.
Upon further investigation found that there is a KB article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968774. Check the section "First Startup experience". As mentioned in the article delays are because "Outlook must update internal PST data structures that are used in SP2 performance optimizations"
Though the above dialog shows that 45 mins remaining. Overall it took about 30 mins to start Outlook on my machine. So please check the KB article on the steps to mitigate this delay. Don't fret and fume if you are in hurry to check mails after upgrading to SP2. I am yet to check up the performance optimizations that have been promised in SP2.
