New email message, typing delay problem

G

Guest

Hi everyone,

I am having a new problem in Outlook 2003 - although the PC has been set up
and running very nicely for a year or so.

The trouble is that when I create a new message in Outlook, and I am typing
the main body of the message, the typing that I do on the keyboard is delayed
for a few seconds before it shows up on the screen.

Typing the email address and the subject line are instant, just as normal.
It is only the message body that is affected.

This is Only when I am using HTML email, edited in Outlook, and NOT when
using plain text or editing email in Word.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you!
 
G

Guest

Ooh, one more thing... I think this may have occurred since I installed IE7 a
week or two ago.

Does IE7 have anything to do with it?
 
S

SBP

I have the same issue (with a PC). And come to think about it, I think this issue did start when IE7 was AUTOMATICALLY (I'm not happy about not having the choice to upgrade or not!) was downloaded into my computer via Microsoft Automatic Updates.

Since then, it's a pain to type emails, especially when you type around 80 wpm. It's a pain to have to stop every sentence and wait for the screen to "catch up".

Is there anyone that knows why this is happening and how to fix it? It's annoying as heck!

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B

Brian Tillman

SBP said:
I have the same issue (with a PC). And come to think about it, I
think this issue did start when IE7 was AUTOMATICALLY (I'm not happy
about not having the choice to upgrade or not!) was downloaded into
my computer via Microsoft Automatic Updates.
Click to expand...

You ALWAYS have the choice. You simply configure the automatic update to
tell you first and require your approval before updating anything.
 
G

Guest

I just spent an hour with a neighbor's machine that was doing the same thing
in Outlook 2003, and I narrowed it down, and found a workaround. It also
appears to have worked on my brother's machine - he was having the same
problem.

If you switch to composing your messages in plain text instead of HTML, the
problem vanishes. Or, and this is the strange one, if you switch to using MS
Word as the message editor, the problem also vanishes! I would have
predicted the opposite.

This still doesn't explain why the problem is occurring in the first place,
of course.
 
G

Guest

Realized after posting that the workaround was already present in the
original post. My fault for not reading more thoroughly - I was just so
excited to find someone else who had run into the same weird glitch. Well,
at least we know that it's not something unique to our PCs!

By the way, both affected machines are running fully-patched WinXP Home
(including IE7), Office 2003, AVG Free Anti-Virus (disabling email plugin
made no difference), WinXP firewall, and Windows Defender - no other active
security software or add-ons.
 

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