Thanks for all the advice
"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
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> Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus. You will still be protected.
>
> Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
> corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
> your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
> folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.
>
> After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
> working *offline* and do it often.
>
> Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no
> folders are open. Then: File>Work Offline (or double click Working Online
in
> the Status Bar). File>Folder>Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until
> the compacting is completed.
>
> In Tools>Options>Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and
> leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
>
> And see:
> http://www.insideoe.com/problems/performance.htm
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS MVP - Outlook Express
> ~IB-CA~
>
> "MAL" <hubba12@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:jUdvf.3460$Hl6.456@newsread3.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> > All of a sudden my OE part of IE6 has become very slow in opening
> > messages.
> > I have Earthlink DSL and it works fine. When I download the message
> > headers, it goes very fast. Then I try to open an individual message
and
> > it
> > struggles and hangs up and goes very slow compared to how it worked just
a
> > few days ago. Eventually the file opens. This seems to happen every
> > other
> > time. If I try to open a file and it goes slow and I quickly cancel it
> > and
> > try again, it goes as fast as before. If I combine and decode a list of
> > messages, it seems to do half of them fast and half of them very slow.
> > ????
> > It is as if some setting is wrong but I cannot figure it out. Any help
> > would sure be appreciated. Mail works fine, same as always.
> >
> >
>