Starting OutlookExpress or Explorer6

[Rick]

I have an icon down on my bottom bar to the left next to the start button.
When I click to start IE or OutlookExpress it will take from 30 seconds to
maybe two minutes to start to bring them up on the screen. I don't hear my
hard drive trying to work or anything. Once it opens everything seems to
work fine.
I have several shortcuts next to these icons on my bottom bar and on my
desktop and when I click on them it will start to take me to these site
immediately.
Any ideals? Thanks

 

[Ron Sommer]

http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/problems/performance.htm#slowstart

Also, if you are going to the Inbox when starting, when was the last time
you compacted the mail folders.

 

[Rick]

Maybe I should add that I am running Windows XP. Thanks

 

[Rick]

Ron, I am running McAfee and could have done what they say, but I am running
Windows XP. Thanks

 

[Rick]

I done a serch for the file Imagehlp.dll and found two. One in
C:\Windows\System32 and one in C:\Windows\ServicepackFiles\i386
They were both modified 8/4/2004
Thanks

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

I done a serch for the file Imagehlp.dll and found two. One in
C:\Windows\System32 and one in C:\Windows\ServicepackFiles\i386
They were both modified 8/4/2004

Leave them alone.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Maybe I should add that I am running Windows XP. Thanks

Don't store messages in the default OE folders. Move them to folders that
you created as soon as possible.

Compact your folders regularly while working offline.

 

[Rick]

I only have 5 messages in my OE folder and my wife doesn't have any. I store
my messages I want to keep in a subfolder I made.
I did what the first message said about removing the two files of Messenger
from my HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT files. Didn't seem to help.
I'm thinking back now and also several months ago my computer started to act
like this, when I move my mouse to stop my screensaver it takes a long time
for that to act too.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

You still haven't said if you have compacted your folders. You seem to want
to avoid this for some reason. Also run a Defrag.

 

[Rick]

I just compacted them. I ran a defrag a couple of weeks back. Thanks