"WMB" wrote in message
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Windows XP(Home) SP3, OE6, IE8; Plenty of RAM & HHD space. Continuous
checks for Virus/Malware
1.4Ghz, VIA Technologies, Inc. 8 kilobyte primary memory cache, 256
kilobyte secondary memory cache, P4X266-8233, Enclosure Type: Desktop V2
Premier, Windows XP (Home) SP3, 2 Calvary External USB 400/500 GB Hard
Drives (NTFS), 1.5 GB Ram, Upgraded PSU, Belarc Advisor, Multimedia -
lists, MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device - Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R)
Audio Controller - Standard Game Port. Circuit Board: P4X266-8233, Bus
Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
09/05/2001, Virus/Malware Protection - Windows Live One Care, MS Windows
Malicious SW
Removal Tool, SUPERAntiSpyware, HiJackThis, Malwarebyte Anti-Malware,
Registry Mechanic 8.0.0.900, CCleaner, and Alvira AntiVir Personal.

I read the below comment by poster VanguardLH in
internetexplorer.general newsgroup.

"I've had 72 tabs open but ran out of memory (they weren't text-only
pages) before IE starting getting overly slow probably due to excessive
paging. However, you can hit web pages that deliberately attempt to
consume your CPU and bandwidth by doing refreshes at very short
intervals or by constantly downloading streams of new content (even if
YOU don't see a change in the page because the new content looks just
like the old content). Even with just a couple tabs open, having
visited one of these rude busy-making pages can make opening other tabs
very slow or using the other tabs for already opened pages."

Concerning - "by doing refreshes at very short intervals"

Question: I use Outlook Express 6, to read newsgroups, can the message
refresh rate be extended or shortened as desired, if so how?

Thank you



Are you checking for new news messages when OE polls for new messages?
(Tools | Accounts | News | Properties | General Tab, with Get XXX headers
ay a time unchecked?). The setting has to be the same for News and Mail,
unless you set up a new identity and have one ID for each.

I normally recommend checking for mail no less that ten minutes, but you
can go lower if you don't get a lot of messages and they are not of
considerable size. If a download doesn't complete before the next check,
it will start over and you will end up with multiple messages, but not all
of them.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA