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.

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.
>
>

Thanks for all the advice
"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:#0LXW8iEGHA.716@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 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.
> >
> >
>

"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.


See http://www.insideoe.com/tips/slownews.htm

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com

Whatever your Windows version, your headers (Microsoft Outlook Express
6.00.2800.1106) tell us that you're running outdated and much less secure
versions of OE, IE and Windows. Check in at Windows Update ASAP.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

MAL wrote:
> 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.