My PC has recently become very slow when I click "Message, Block Sender" to
stop unwanted e-mails, and when I click "File, Switch Identity" to go to a
different e-mail account. Everything else seems to work fine, and when I run
Norton SystemWorks nothing shows up as a problem.

Does anyone have any ideas?
--
Phil

What is your Windows version?

Do you ever compact your folders?

Get rid of Norton.

Performance Problems:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/performance.htm
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Phil" wrote in message
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My PC has recently become very slow when I click "Message, Block Sender"
to
stop unwanted e-mails, and when I click "File, Switch Identity" to go to a
different e-mail account. Everything else seems to work fine, and when I
run
Norton SystemWorks nothing shows up as a problem.

Does anyone have any ideas?
--
Phil

Norton considerably slows down machines.

Email scanning should definitely be disabled. You may have to reset your
accounts after disabling it.

see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve

"Phil" wrote in message
...
My PC has recently become very slow when I click "Message, Block Sender"
to
stop unwanted e-mails, and when I click "File, Switch Identity" to go to a
different e-mail account. Everything else seems to work fine, and when I
run
Norton SystemWorks nothing shows up as a problem.

Does anyone have any ideas?
--
Phil

Block Sender is pretty worthless for dealing with spam. Most spam has
fake sender and they are constantly changing. If you have hundreds or
thousands of entries in the Block Sender list, it would be best to wipe
that out and take a different approach.

- http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm

To quickly wipe out the block sender list you would need to edit the
registry (with OE closed). The key you need to delete would be
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{unique identity
key}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Block Senders

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Phil" wrote in message
...
My PC has recently become very slow when I click "Message, Block
Sender" to
stop unwanted e-mails, and when I click "File, Switch Identity" to go
to a
different e-mail account. Everything else seems to work fine, and
when I run
Norton SystemWorks nothing shows up as a problem.

Does anyone have any ideas?
--
Phil