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    Outlook Express 6 - Takes Two Minutes to Open

    Pooky1 another good suggestion. I counted 67 posts in my in box and then moved or deleted 37 so that the new count is 40. Express took its usual 120 seconds to load. I should say that this problem almost seems like somewhere in the OS is a delay set to 120 seconds. This Express program loads...
  2. benhammer

    Outlook Express 6 - Takes Two Minutes to Open

    JMatt I went through your suggestions (thanks for the effort) and still no change. The Microsoft references are for XP and I running Win 2000. Well pedromoreno I tried yours just because it seems so straight forward that it might work - sadly it still takes 120 seconds for Outlook Express 6 to...
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    Outlook Express 6 - Takes Two Minutes to Open

    Thanks jmatt for taking the time to check out the solutions you have included. I tried you suggestion about "hosts" but even though the file was on my computer changing it didn't make any difference on opening time with Outlook still took two minutes. I even re-booted in hopes that...
  4. benhammer

    Outlook Express 6 - Takes Two Minutes to Open

    This has been happening with my Win 2000 system for some months. Checked all the software to see if conflict was occurring, spoke to a number of experts and most have said that Express doesn't have a way to delay it at startup. The interesting thing is that once you click on the icon you can...

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