Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
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Been using Outlook XP for e-mails the last few days. Does anyone know how to speed this program up a little  It's well slow when replying to e-mails; the system just seems to hang for about 10 seconds before it does anything  I've put SP3 on although SP2 is intergrated but it makes no dif at all 
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Claire
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Registered: 19th Jan 03
Location: The Sarrrf
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nope sorry
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Don't use it. It is slow and poopy.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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I've heard of this problem in the past, last time turned out to be a virus scanner that was holding things up before allowing the user to do anything. I'm not recommending disabling it for a long time but you might want to just for some diagnosis.
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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Tried tuning off the AVG virus scan and ZoneAlarm. I think it's slow because it's intergrating with Word. With the old Office 2000 there was a tune up application you could run but can't see nothing with XP. Prob could do with a system upgrade now. The Athlon XP 2000+ is getting on a bit now.
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DB666
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Registered: 30th Oct 04
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Although the above will probably speed it up enough you may also want to change the way Outlook writes emails... by default it writes them in HTML rather than Rich Text or just plain text... best setting is plane text... to change it go into Tools > Options > Mail Format > Compose Messages In This Format :
Also untick the two boxes below that, all in all will help things along considerably 
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