My old HP would slow down like that when I compacted..I would restart
and it'd be fine. No idea why. Just compact..restart and go get a
drink..when you get back it's ready...

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
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| If you have XP with SP2 installed, the only way to "forestall" the
| compacting operation is to keep track of the number of times the
program is
| opened and then do a registry edit of the "Compact Check Count" in the
right
| hand pane under this registry key:
| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID for Identity
| involved}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0
|
| Otherwise the compacting will automatically take place after 100
| opening/closing sequences of the program. That is the only workaround
| unless you use a 3rd party tool to reset it. Failing to compact
regularly
| will eventually lead to problems since the database will become
"bloated"
| since the space occupied by moved/deleted messages is not recovered
until
| compacting occurs. It's quite possible to have an Inbox.dbx file that
| approaches the theoretical limit of 2 GB for any Windows file, even
though
| it may contain only a few messages, if you never compact. Your
computer,
| your choice, but what's the problem with doing it when you desire and
know
| the computer is free of other tasks? Try using OETool from
| http://www.oehelp.com/OETool/Default.aspx to do that (and it resets
the
| registry count to zero). It's only 37KB in size and it's "free."
| Personally I wouldn't be without it.
| --
| Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
|
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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helped.
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| "D. W. K." wrote in message
| ...
| With all due respect to all of you, and I appreciate your attempts
to
| help, but I DO NOT WANT OE6 DOING ANY COMPACTING! I understand the
need
| for this but the way Microsoft designed the software it wreaks havoc
on
| the operating speed of my computer for quite some time afterwards!
|
| I do have a lot of files but they are in separate folders. Anyway,
thanks
| for offering the help. I have to go... DWK
|
|
| "D. W. K." wrote in message
| ...
| Hello to all! Does anyone know how I can prevent IE6 from
automatically
| "compacting" every so often on its own?
|
| The problem is that every time it does this it takes forever to do
it and
| when it is done my entire computer runs incredibly SLOOOOOOOOOW!!
|
| This is extremely aggravating to me! I don't know why it has this
effect
| on my computer but every single button click, selection or other
action
| after a "compacting" event responds in glacial time for at least
the
| first 15 minutes or more for each program I open up!
|
| Thank you,
|
| DWK
| Simi Valley, CA
| USA
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