Outlook 2007: Remove or Disable RSS Feed Support

The integration between Outlook 2007 and Internet Explorer’s RSS system will slow down Outlook 2007. If you do not want to use Outlook 2007 for your feed reader or aggregator, here is how to remove this feature from Outlook.

Sadly, there is no command, option, or registry hack to hide the RSS icon or section in Outlook. We can, however, pretty much disable it.
If you do not want to use Outlook 2007′s RSS Feed Reader feature, you should remove it. It slows down Outlook. This also shows you how to remove the RSS feeds from the Outlook sidebar.
The main reason Outlook is made slower by RSS feeds is that Outlook will need time to sync with IE7′s feeds. By disabling this sync, you will improve Outlook’s performance.
Disable Outlook’s RSS Sync:

1. Open Outlook 2007
2. Click the Tools menu
3. Click Options
4. Select the Other tab
5. Click the Advanced Options button
6. Uncheck Sync RSS feeds to the Common Feed List
7. Click OK X 2

Woo-hoo. That will speed up Outlook. If you want to remove the RSS subscriptions from Outlook, you may wish to do this following.
Mass Remove Feed Subscriptions from Outlook:

1. Click Tools menu and then Options again.
2. Select the poorly named Mail Setup tab
3. Click the Data Files button
4. Click the RSS Feeds tab
5. Click the first feed and scroll down to the bottom of the feed list
6. Hold the SHIFT key and click the last feed. All feeds should now be selected.
7. Click the Remove button
8. Confirm you want them all deleted.

Now we’ll need to delete the old feed content as well…

9. Expand the RSS Feed folder under Personal Folders
10. Select each feed and press Delete. You’ll have to confirm the delete.
11. Repeat ad nauseum until all are gone.

 

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Unsubscribe from an RSS Feed

At any time you can stop receiving, or unsubscribe from, a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feed. You can either cancel the feed and remove all items from that feed in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, or cancel the feed and keep items downloaded from the feed.

 Note   If you want to keep the RSS Feed, but delete the downloaded items, open the folder for the RSS Feed, select the items to be deleted and then press DELETE.

Cancel an RSS Feed and remove all content from the feed

Delete the folder associated with the RSS Feed. Doing so will delete all of your downloaded items in the folder and cancel the RSS Feed.

1. In Mail, in the Navigation Pane, expand the RSS Feeds folder.

2. Select the RSS Feed that you want to delete.
3. Press DELETE.
4. When prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.

Cancel an RSS Feed and keep all content from the feed

1. On the Tools menu, click Account Settings.
2. Click the RSS Feeds tab.
3. Under Feed Name, click the feed you want cancel, and then click Remove.

 Note   To cancel multiple RSS Feeds, press and hold CTRL as you click RSS Feed names. This allows you to select multiple RSS Feeds.

Previously downloaded items from the feed are not deleted.