Hi All,

Generally OE is ok but when I first sync it is taking 30 seconds or so for
the dialogue that tells you what is going on to populate with all the tasks
it has to do.

My Outlook Express folder (under local settings) is now over 1GB in size and
am subscribed to about 40 newsgroups. For the larger NG's I only download
headers.

PC is running W2K. Processor is an Athlon XP running at 1800MHz. Memory is
512MB. There is plenty of disk space available.

I don't think there is anything wrong as such, simply that I need to do some
maintenance, but I'm not sure what to do. Main thing is that I don't want to
lose replies to messages I have posted to newsgroups.

I have tried compacting messages but it has not really made any difference.

Can anyone advise please?

Thanks.
Bill.