"Peter" wrote in message
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I'm running a pentium 667mhz w/ 128mb ram. When we open outlook 2000
it takes a long time to open, about 5 to 10 minutes while we wait to
download 1 message and look at other message. I'm thinking of adding
an extra 256mb but its so slow I don't think it'll help much.
Should I get the extra 256mb or is it not going to make that much
difference?

Thanks,
Pete


The machine I'm running currently is a P3 at 617MHz, 384Mb and XP runs
Outlook without any problems. Your issue may be several things. Is the time
taken different to what it used to be, or has it always been 5-10 minutes?
If it has suddenly changed, or been a gradual increase in time it can point
to some possible causes. I just opened it on this PC- it took 10 seconds
(and I have Outlook Express and it is downloading newsgroup messages, 2
Internet Explorer sessions, 1 Firefox with 3 windows sessions, 3 File
Explorer windows, Spyware Blaster open, AVG, Firewall and some more stuff
all running).

General Questions: Do you defragment? Hard disk size/free space? How much is
in your inbox / what is the file size (have you tried compressing the file?)
Have you got up to date virus and spyware programs (which ones?) and run
scans? XP works better with 256Mb or more- but *if* the time taken has
increased while you have left the memory the same then that isn't the cause
of any change is it?