I have an icon down on my bottom bar to the left next to the start button.
When I click to start IE or OutlookExpress it will take from 30 seconds to
maybe two minutes to start to bring them up on the screen. I don't hear my
hard drive trying to work or anything. Once it opens everything seems to
work fine.
I have several shortcuts next to these icons on my bottom bar and on my
desktop and when I click on them it will start to take me to these site
immediately.
Any ideals? Thanks

http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/....htm#slowstart

Also, if you are going to the Inbox when starting, when was the last time
you compacted the mail folders.
--
Ron Sommer

"Rick" wrote in message
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I have an icon down on my bottom bar to the left next to the start button.
When I click to start IE or OutlookExpress it will take from 30 seconds to
maybe two minutes to start to bring them up on the screen. I don't hear my
hard drive trying to work or anything. Once it opens everything seems to
work fine.
I have several shortcuts next to these icons on my bottom bar and on my
desktop and when I click on them it will start to take me to these site
immediately.
Any ideals? Thanks

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...

Ooops :-)

Ron, I am running McAfee and could have done what they say, but I am running
Windows XP. Thanks
"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/....htm#slowstart

Also, if you are going to the Inbox when starting, when was the last time
you compacted the mail folders.
--
Ron Sommer

"Rick" wrote in message
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I have an icon down on my bottom bar to the left next to the start button.
When I click to start IE or OutlookExpress it will take from 30 seconds to
maybe two minutes to start to bring them up on the screen. I don't hear my
hard drive trying to work or anything. Once it opens everything seems to
work fine.
I have several shortcuts next to these icons on my bottom bar and on my
desktop and when I click on them it will start to take me to these site
immediately.
Any ideals? Thanks

I done a serch for the file Imagehlp.dll and found two. One in
C:\Windows\System32 and one in C:\Windows\ServicepackFiles\i386
They were both modified 8/4/2004
Thanks
"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/....htm#slowstart

Also, if you are going to the Inbox when starting, when was the last time
you compacted the mail folders.
--
Ron Sommer

"Rick" wrote in message
...
I have an icon down on my bottom bar to the left next to the start button.
When I click to start IE or OutlookExpress it will take from 30 seconds to
maybe two minutes to start to bring them up on the screen. I don't hear my
hard drive trying to work or anything. Once it opens everything seems to
work fine.
I have several shortcuts next to these icons on my bottom bar and on my
desktop and when I click on them it will start to take me to these site
immediately.
Any ideals? Thanks

"Rick" wrote in message
...
I done a serch for the file Imagehlp.dll and found two. One in
C:\Windows\System32 and one in C:\Windows\ServicepackFiles\i386
They were both modified 8/4/2004


Leave them alone.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"

"Rick" wrote in message
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I have an icon down on my bottom bar to the left next to the start button.
When I click to start IE or OutlookExpress it will take from 30 seconds to
maybe two minutes to start to bring them up on the screen. I don't hear my
hard drive trying to work or anything. Once it opens everything seems to
work fine.
I have several shortcuts next to these icons on my bottom bar and on my
desktop and when I click on them it will start to take me to these site
immediately.
Any ideals? Thanks

See:
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/....htm#slowstart
Also:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact
HTH?

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]

Maybe I should add that I am running Windows XP. Thanks
"Rick" wrote in message
...
I have an icon down on my bottom bar to the left next to the start button.
When I click to start IE or OutlookExpress it will take from 30 seconds to
maybe two minutes to start to bring them up on the screen. I don't hear my
hard drive trying to work or anything. Once it opens everything seems to
work fine.
I have several shortcuts next to these icons on my bottom bar and on my
desktop and when I click on them it will start to take me to these site
immediately.
Any ideals? Thanks

"Rick" wrote in message
...
Maybe I should add that I am running Windows XP. Thanks
"Rick" wrote in message
...
I have an icon down on my bottom bar to the left next to the start button.
When I click to start IE or OutlookExpress it will take from 30 seconds to
maybe two minutes to start to bring them up on the screen. I don't hear my
hard drive trying to work or anything. Once it opens everything seems to
work fine.
I have several shortcuts next to these icons on my bottom bar and on my
desktop and when I click on them it will start to take me to these site
immediately.
Any ideals? Thanks




Don't store messages in the default OE folders. Move them to folders that
you created as soon as possible.

Compact your folders regularly while working offline.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"

I only have 5 messages in my OE folder and my wife doesn't have any. I store
my messages I want to keep in a subfolder I made.
I did what the first message said about removing the two files of Messenger
from my HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT files. Didn't seem to help.
I'm thinking back now and also several months ago my computer started to act
like this, when I move my mouse to stop my screensaver it takes a long time
for that to act too.
"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote in message
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"Rick" wrote in message
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Maybe I should add that I am running Windows XP. Thanks
"Rick" wrote in message
...
I have an icon down on my bottom bar to the left next to the start
button. When I click to start IE or OutlookExpress it will take from 30
seconds to maybe two minutes to start to bring them up on the screen. I
don't hear my hard drive trying to work or anything. Once it opens
everything seems to work fine.
I have several shortcuts next to these icons on my bottom bar and on my
desktop and when I click on them it will start to take me to these site
immediately.
Any ideals? Thanks




Don't store messages in the default OE folders. Move them to folders that
you created as soon as possible.

Compact your folders regularly while working offline.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security"