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"steve m" wrote in message
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Everything was fine for years, then suddenly it just started taking 5 to
10 minutes to start up. It's literally "go away and make a cup of
coffee" - that's what I do.

I tried everything I could think of, searched help, google ...etc...
nothing worked. I tried taking away the pst file and making it work with a
completely empty one. It took just as long to start. I bought a new state
of the art pc and transferred my stuff over, thinking "this will do it" -
but horror, even after upgrading to Office 2003, and rebuilding the pst to
the new database format, Outlook still takes 5 to 10 minutes to start.
I think this started happening the day I installed some Sony-Ericcson
software for a new mobile phone (a few monts ago) on my old system, so I
uninstalled all of that but still the same.
After running for a while Windows always comes up with the warning
"Virtual Memory too low - increasing page size". But I've tried every bit
of help and every setting imaginable with System / Virtual Memory settings
and nothing makes any difference. Anybody got any ideas what the problem
might be?

desperately yours,
steve m (london)