Outlook Express problem

[Reddevil63]

Recently bought brand new PC with Windows XP and at the beginning whenever I opened Outlook Express after booting up the program would appear instantly.

Now for some strange reason when I now boot up the PC and go to open Outlook it takes a while longer to open. If I close Outlook and open again, it appears instantly.

Any clues?

Thanks

just guessing, but that behaviour would suggest a fragmented hard disk, that is taking a while loading the OE folders, when re-started it will load from the cache & seem a lot faster.

- you could try de-fragging your hard disk & see if it improves

[bopdude]

I have noticed a similar thing happen, I have put it down to so many programs loading on start up and / or Nortons checking the account first
Its not a biggie for me, but yep its there

[Raistlin]

Probably due to the fact that even when Windows shows the desktop it is still working in the background on setting up services / programs etc.

Boot up and leave a little while (until all HDD activity has been reduced to a bare minimum) and see what happens then.

[Reddevil63]

Originally Posted by Raistlin

Probably due to the fact that even when Windows shows the desktop it is still working in the background on setting up services / programs etc.

Boot up and leave a little while (until all HDD activity has been reduced to a bare minimum) and see what happens then.

Did that and no difference.

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by Reddevil63

Did that and no difference.

How long do you leave it booting / loading progs before trying ??

[Reddevil63]

Originally Posted by bopdude

How long do you leave it booting / loading progs before trying ??

A few minutes....just done a de-frag as suggested, re-booted and still taking awhile to load Outlook.

Thing is my startup programs haven't changed that much since getting this new PC so can't see that being a problem.

More a nuisance that anything else.

[SMHarman]

How big are your outlook folders / newsgroups / addresses etc.

When you close it until you load lots of other programs parts will remain in the RAM which is why the reload could be a lot quicker.

What happens if you load OE, close it, open IE, Word, Excel, Power point and whatever other apps you can thing of, then close them, then open OE again?

How much RAM does your PC have?

Have you emptied your deleted items?

Have you asked OE to optimise / compress / maintain the folders?

[Paul K]

Another thing to think about is do you have any anti-virus installed and does it load a plugin for the email software when you launch Outlook Express?

[Reddevil63]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

How big are your outlook folders / newsgroups / addresses etc.

When you close it until you load lots of other programs parts will remain in the RAM which is why the reload could be a lot quicker.

What happens if you load OE, close it, open IE, Word, Excel, Power point and whatever other apps you can thing of, then close them, then open OE again?

How much RAM does your PC have?

Have you emptied your deleted items?

Have you asked OE to optimise / compress / maintain the folders?

All the other programs open ok.

I haven't got much in my OE folders, actually its all empty at the mo.

I have 512MB RAM.

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Reddevil63

All the other programs open ok.

I haven't got much in my OE folders, actually its all empty at the mo.

I have 512MB RAM.

I'm sure they do, the point of that test is to get them to load and overwrite OE stored in the RAM and then try reloading OE when you have closed them.

Whats the processor, sounds like it is just generally startup activity slowing things down.

[Reddevil63]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

I'm sure they do, the point of that test is to get them to load and overwrite OE stored in the RAM and then try reloading OE when you have closed them.

Whats the processor, sounds like it is just generally startup activity slowing things down.

Processor is 3.4HT Pentium 4.

[SMHarman]

Dunno then, I'll bow out of this one.