Outlook 2000 slow response, busy, unresponsive, freeze
 

Hello,

I'd set up a brand new laptop running XP with office 2000 and Outlook
2000 is running slow. It seems that every 30 seconds Outlook will
freeze up for about 2-3 seconds at a time. When this happens, I can't
open up emails or navigate through the system until that 2-3 second
pause is over. When I type a new email, it will freeze up for the 2-3
seconds, which prevents me from being able to type emails without
having to wait for it to unfreeze and have the text catchup to where I
am typing.

It seems to be only an Outlook thing for the rest of the computer seems
to be working fine. It seems that every 30 seconds or so, it is
downloading or running something (which is the cause of this hiccup),
but I've changed the settings to download messages every 10 minutes. I
had a large PST file open (over 1.5 GB), but the problem still occurs
even after I closed the PST file.

The outlook profile is set up to recieve POP email and have it
downloaded into the computer. The large PST file is located on the
desktop. So, it is not connected to a Exchange server. I'd ran detect
and repair on outlook a couple of times, uninstalled and reinstalled
office a few times, and also did a repair of office a few times and the
same problems keeps happening.

I am running AVG 7.5 on the laptop. I turned off email scanning and
the problem still happens.

Is anyone familiar with this problem and know how I can go about fixing
it?

Thank you.

Phong