We did the following:

1. deleted all temp files through my computer......%temp%
2. used the clean up function of internet explorer to delete cookies, temp
files. including off-line, history, cleared forms and passwords.
3. used disc clean-up to get rid of any other stuff.
4. used the search files and folders..........*.tmp.......and deleted what
was still remaining.
5. She had several sub folders in her inbox which she moved out to their own
folders (I didn't know about these!)
6. compacted all the mailboxes in outlook.
7. finally did a defrag.

Things seem to be working Ok for now, so if the problem returns I look into
things further.

One thing that bugged me, when compacting the mailboxes the msnmsg icon
returned and was activated in the start-up, I had unchecked it in msconfig.
Why does this keep coming back? It's easy to turn off, but it's like the
cousin that never goes home.

Thanks for all the help,

JB


"Steve Cochran" wrote:

I would make a backup and then she needs to do a File | Folder | Compact
all. Then clear the Temporary Internet Files in IE and then run a defrag on
the hard drive.

See if that improves the performance.

Also check www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 and 3

steve

"JB" wrote in message
...
Is there a limit to the size of mailboxes in Outlook Express 6? My wife
currently has over 28,000 messages stored in a variety of user mailboxes,
not
teh default mailboxes, and is now getting an error message when she tries
to
reply to an email "there was an error opening this message, there is not
enough memory"

Her total mailboxes contain about 1 gb, running windows xp pro sp2, with
512mb of memory.

She is also having trouble viewing email messages, when she scrolls the
message dissapears, or turns into lines on the page with no text, as if
the
program is lagging.

JB