Outlook Express 6 SLOW to Display Preview Pane

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Hi,
I am running WIN XP Home SP1 and am experiencing very long wiats when I
click on a messae to preview in the preview pane. It will eventually come
up, usually after about 20 seconds. I have all of the updates ( I have enen
tried SP@ and have come back off to see if I could do anything else at that
level). I have run the latest NORTON, ADAWARE and SpyBot program and have NO
problems.

The slowness is only occuring when you click on the message to biew and when
you click on NEW MESSAGE to create. It takes approx. 10 seconds before the
frame is totally displayed.

This is the ONLY porgram on my whole system that is doing this.

Can anyone give me some suggestions ???
 
Do not archive mail on default OE folders. They will eventually
become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing
mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually
while working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File>Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar).
File>Folder>Compact all folders.

In Tools>Options>Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background
and leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.

See:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/performance.htm

OE Specific NG:
http://communities2.microsoft.com/c...01a-8607-4f53-908d-78dcc3cb4a97&lang=en&cr=US
 
Larry H said:
Hi,
I am running WIN XP Home SP1 and am experiencing very long wiats when
I click on a messae to preview in the preview pane. It will
eventually come up, usually after about 20 seconds. I have all of
the updates ( I have enen tried SP@ and have come back off to see if
I could do anything else at that level). I have run the latest
NORTON, ADAWARE and SpyBot program and have NO problems.

The slowness is only occuring when you click on the message to biew
and when you click on NEW MESSAGE to create. It takes approx. 10
seconds before the frame is totally displayed.

This is the ONLY porgram on my whole system that is doing this.

Can anyone give me some suggestions ???
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From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/CA.htm
Outlook Express 5.5 or 6 places a zero byte file in TIF for every message
that you read. These files are only visible from Start | Find | Files of
Folders, not from Windows Explorer. I had been letting them accumulate to
see if they will affect OE's performance. Finally, at something over 27,000
files it did. The gray flicker upon opening a message changed from a
fraction of a second to over a second.

Of course, I then cleared them and OE was cured.

However, I did it by using deltree from DOS to empty TIF and forgot to run
smartdrv first. It took more that two hours. I don't think I'll let them
accumulate like that again.

The easy way to get rid of them if you use OE 5.5 or 6 is to open Internet
Explorer and go to Tools | Internet Options. In the Temporary Internet Files
Section choose "Delete files". In the next dialogue check the box for
"Delete all offline content" and click "OK".

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