I hesitate to post this, since I fear you folks will lose interest and the
problem will come back soon (it already has shown these signs of
intermittency), but things are OK again now. However, I have not rechecked
anything on the msconfig startup tab and nothing is checked except ctfmon,
which seems to have checked itself.

What should I do to put startup back? I didn't think to record what was
checked and what wasn't. Other than the warning each time I reboot, the
computer seems none the worse for wear for having nothing but cftmon
checked.

It may be my imagination, but it almost seems like if I rush into Outlook,
right after it says its finished sending and receiving and all, it is
absurdly slow (and after that it doesn't speed up, except possibly upon
reboot), but if I give it another 5 minutes, it's OK. Doe this make any
sense?

One last thing. I have been having lots of problems with Microsoft .NET
Framework, Version 1.1. I assume this would be unrelated to these Outlook
slowness problems, right?

Thanks!
Dean



"Dean" wrote in message
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Ok, problem is back today (strange intermittency of problem) and I did
what you said. After rebooting, I noticed that nothing on the startup tab
is checked but most things on the services tab were checked - is that the
way it should be?

In any event, it did not help Outlook at all. Still long delays. So what
does that tell us and what to do next?

Thanks!
Dean


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
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What happens with OL if you use msconfig to disable all startups, then in
Services Tab hide all MS disable the rest, then reboot - you will get a
warning msg which you should accept. Then start & use OL, same behaviour?
NB this process will disable any AV & third party Firewall

"Dean" wrote in message
news
Under system information, total physical memory is 1 GB, available
physical
memory is 179 MB with excel and word and IE7 and outlook express and
outlook
open. Is this the right measure and, if so, is it enough, or small
enough
to
slow things down? If I have multiple big excel spreadsheets open, as
opposed to just one, now does that matter much?

Thanks!
Dean

"Charles W Davis" wrote in message
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Uninstall and reinstall will do nothing that Detect and Repair didn't
do.

Since you state that your hard drive is 80BG, I would guess that you
should look to the amount of RAM that is installed on your machine.
Additional RAM is relatively cheap. When you have Outlook open you are
using a large amount of RAM and the computer is constantly paging due
lack
of RAM. When hard drive space is low, the paging is further hampered.

Just a thought.
"Dean" wrote in message
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I added the following to an old thread I had done and got no response
for
awhile, so I think that, maybe, I should have posted as a new item, so
here goes:

My outlook has been exhibiting more and more delays. As K Orland
originally recommended, I did detect and repair, then scanpst.exe,
and
then compacted my PST but it hasn't helped. My Outlook is so slow as
to
be almost useless now. I can type say, 5 words, at a time, then have
to
wait 30 seconds for it to catch up, etc, etc.

Does anyone have any helpful ideas for me, PLEASE!!! I did later
notice
that I only had about 2.7GB left on my hard drive of about 80GB and
so
I
ran the equivalent of scandisk. then deleted so that I would have
more
than 15% free which then allowed me to run defrag. Even with only
2.7G
free, Outlook was the only program exhibiting slowness symptoms that
I
could notice. Still things are no better.

If the problem is likely in Outlook rather than in my PST, does it
make
sense to uninstall Outlook, then reinstall and import the PST?

Thanks much!
Dean