I'm having the same problem with Outlook 2003. It seems to have begun as
soon as I installed IE 7.

Any suggestions?

Steve Morris

"Michael Moser" wrote in message
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Outlook 2002 has a rather annoying behavior when I click onto a URL in a
mail:

First, this obviously blocks Outlook until it has started or forked of
Internet Explorer. Can one change that, i.e. that it starts IE in another
thread, so one can continue operating Outlook, and e.g. advance to the
next mail?
Second, starting IE from within Outlook takes FOREVER! Normally, when
start IE directly it is up and ready to accept a URL within 2 seconds.
When it is started via Outlook it easily takes up to 30 seconds until the
window appears and its status field then says "connecting..." for another
10-30 seconds until the page is finally downloaded and displayed. I.e. the
entire process from clicking onto a URL until the page is finally
displayed and viewable easily take 30-60 seconds.

It is much faster to display the source of an HTML-mail, locate the URL,
copy it, start IE directly and paste the URL into the address field.

But - I mean, pardon me - but this can't be it, can it? Any idea, what
could cause these delays? What program might interfere here? Any idea how
to analyze or debug this to locate the culprit?

Michael