If you want to try the other 2 themes in case they work better for you: Whoever thought that making the background grey, without giving users the option of a changing to a white background, was a good idea? I bet they had 20-20 vision and are 20 years old. The default "Silver" theme is in my view the least bad of a bad selection - I found the other two choices to be even harder to read. Yes Outlook stops too when I receive new emails, but only for a second, which I can live with.) Themes I've tried disabling reminders, visual and audio, it doesn't help. I just can't function with the constant hanging. (For anyone interested - I had to change to Outlook because Thunderbird kept freezing for ages everytime a new email arrived, and when version 5 still didn't fix it, I gave up on Thunderbird. If you want Outlook 2010 to be easier to view and read, and want as much information as possible to be visible to you without having to scroll, the steps I had to take to set up Outlook 2010, below, may be of use to you. In terms of accessibility, I consider it a step down down from Outlook 2003, but there y'go.
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This post is about how to change fonts and other settings to make the Outlook 2010 email window easier to read, if you have poor eyesight like me.