Outlook 03 Slow Opening HTML Msgs

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Dave

I'm running Office 03 Pro on XP Pro. Firefox is my default browser. When
upgrading to IE7 a couple of months ago, Outlook became painfully slow
opening the first HTML message. I uninstalled and reinstalled IE7 and that
didn't help. Now some of the most recent MS patches have worsened the
problem. HTML messages take about 30 seconds to open a blank window and at
least another 60s to paint the window. Replying is even worse. Outlook is
consuming 100% of the cpu the whole time. Plain or RTF still work fine. IE
and FF work fine. I really don't want to go through reinstalling Office. I
tried renaming the outcmd.dat file and that didn't help.

Anyone else see this and solved it? If not, I'll keep trying to find the
solution as I have time.

Thanks,
Dave
 
How many items do you have in IE's restricted sites. Reducing this number will help the situation.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Dave asked:

| I'm running Office 03 Pro on XP Pro. Firefox is my default browser.
| When upgrading to IE7 a couple of months ago, Outlook became
| painfully slow opening the first HTML message. I uninstalled and
| reinstalled IE7 and that didn't help. Now some of the most recent MS
| patches have worsened the problem. HTML messages take about 30
| seconds to open a blank window and at least another 60s to paint the
| window. Replying is even worse. Outlook is consuming 100% of the cpu
| the whole time. Plain or RTF still work fine. IE and FF work fine. I
| really don't want to go through reinstalling Office. I tried renaming
| the outcmd.dat file and that didn't help.
|
| Anyone else see this and solved it? If not, I'll keep trying to find
| the solution as I have time.
|
| Thanks,
| Dave
 
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

Milly,

You win today's prize. I only had 22,300 sites in my restricted list, but
I removed them anyway <grin>. That seems to have solved the problem. If
you're wondering how I got that many, I had loaded a product called ie-
spyad. Their site hasn't been updated to work with IE7 anyway. I liked
how it worked with IE6, but primarily using Firefox, it's no use anyway.

Thanks again!!
Dave
 
Dave said:
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

Milly,

You win today's prize. I only had 22,300 sites in my restricted list, but
I removed them anyway <grin>. That seems to have solved the problem. If
you're wondering how I got that many, I had loaded a product called ie-
spyad. Their site hasn't been updated to work with IE7 anyway. I liked
how it worked with IE6, but primarily using Firefox, it's no use anyway.

Thanks again!!
Dave
How many items do you have in IE's restricted sites. Reducing this
number will help the situation.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Dave asked:

| I'm running Office 03 Pro on XP Pro. Firefox is my default browser.
| When upgrading to IE7 a couple of months ago, Outlook became
| painfully slow opening the first HTML message. I uninstalled and
| reinstalled IE7 and that didn't help. Now some of the most recent MS
| patches have worsened the problem. HTML messages take about 30
| seconds to open a blank window and at least another 60s to paint the
| window. Replying is even worse. Outlook is consuming 100% of the cpu
| the whole time. Plain or RTF still work fine. IE and FF work fine. I
| really don't want to go through reinstalling Office. I tried renaming
| the outcmd.dat file and that didn't help.
|
| Anyone else see this and solved it? If not, I'll keep trying to find
| the solution as I have time.
|
| Thanks,
| Dave
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I seem to have same problem how do you clear restricted sites in one go as opposed to one at a time?
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trout said:
I seem to have same problem how do you clear restricted sites in one
go as opposed to one at a time?
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From within IE, you don't. You can, however, delete the registry keys
holding the restricted sites, as described in another post in this
newsgroup. Google Groups will find it for you.
 
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