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Originally Posted by stuartbe

Have you got bucket loads of mail that has http links in it ? Outlook express will try and load the pages for the preview pane when you run it !

I get very little mail...

Originally Posted by Semi On

Long shot...but could it be this:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1076280464

Holy cow, it did it!

re: Outlook Express Hangs for about a minute
Sunday, February 8, 2004 at 3:31 pm
Posted by james (56 messages posted)
This is what you need to do, basically its caused by diasabling windows messenger The fix for OE is simple. Here is the reason and the fix. Sometimes removing or disabling Windows (or MSN) Messenger causes OE to open slowly. This will be shown by an entry in the system error log: The server {FB7199AB-79BF-11D2-8D94-0000F875C541} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. To fix this, open Regedit and navigate to this key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \CLSID \{FB7199AB-79BF-11d2-8D94-0000F875C541} \InProcServer32 In the right-hand pane, double-click on the (Default) value and delete whatever is entered there, leaving it blank. Click OK. Now perform exactly the same step with the key directly underneath, namely HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \CLSID \{FB7199AB-79BF-11d2-8D94-0000F875C541} \LocalServer32 Once both (Default) values are empty, OE will open normally.