I have Office 2000 PRO installed. I just upgraded Outlook 2000 to Outlook
2003. I only upgraded Outlook. When I reply or forward an HTML email, it
takes forever to write the message. It's like it pauses every 2-3 seconds
after I writing something before it displays it. I disabled norton. I run
outlook in safe mode. Nothing works. We are just testing Outlook 2003, but so
far the test has failed. Please help.

Click Start > Run > eventvwr and check out your application and system event
logs. See any red X's listed? This would indicate errors, you might be able
to trace something back to a specific event, or perhaps some failing hardware
or faulty software by the errors or notices listed here.

This is now a fairly well known problem but for some reason does not appear
to be well described on this forum.

Having read posts in the AumHa Forums and the Spybot - Search & Destroy Forum,
I have a little better understanding of the problem.

AumHa Forums
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?p=151711#151711

Although most of the discussion concerns the very slow typing in HTML, it
also appears to be relevant to the general slow Outlook problem.

Spybot - Search & Destroy Forum
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread...ok+slow&page=4

The thread is of interest but look for the summary by RonaldReagan -
'General Re-Summary Of Problem'

The quick work around I have adopted is:
Open Outlook (still slow), go Tools/Options/Security, click OK and if by
magic Outlook is back to normal speed, unless you close it and open it again,
so I leave it open.

I hope this helps others with the same problem.


"madevries" wrote:

> Click Start > Run > eventvwr and check out your application and system event
> logs. See any red X's listed? This would indicate errors, you might be able
> to trace something back to a specific event, or perhaps some failing hardware
> or faulty software by the errors or notices listed here.