[zalem]

Does anyone why outlook express 6 in WinXP Pro takes so long to start up? It takes almost 2 minutes...

[Dirty Harry]

There is a MS knowledgebase article on this read it HERE Its about OE 5.5, but might help anyhow.

Also, it could be that you have a virus scanner that causes this, if so, try turning it completely off to see if thats the culprit.

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[zalem]

No, it didnt help. And besides that was for win9x, not XP!

[Sampson]

Are you using a Hotmail account? Outlook Express has some issues with Hotmail accounts one of which is delays.

[zalem]

No, i dont use hotmail, i didnt had this trouble with win2k.
And my girlfriend has the same problem! Were sharing internet connection on her computer!

[Alien]

By any chance are you using a 3rd party firewall [eg ZoneAlarm, BlackIce, or Norton] & have you given it permission to access the net in the firewall's options?

[DanteP]

Have you disabled Messenger in your local computer policy (or anywhere else for that matter)? This will cause a slow Outlook Express startup. There was a way around it, but I forgot where . Maybe a tweaking site. Anyway, I just let messenger run without loggin in. Would be nice if someone knew the exact fix.

-Dan

[DanteP]

I found the link to correct the problem I mentioned a few minutes ago. Here it is... http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=108

This fix corrects the slow Outlook startup problem when you remove or prevent Messenger from running.

Good Luck, let me know if this helps.

-Dan

[zalem]

YES!
Thats the solution, thank you DanteP!
And thanks all of you who has replied!

[DanteP]

No problemo!

[CyberGenX]

I have this same problem with OE 6.0 on 2 Win2K boxes running Office XP and SP2. I will try to locate that same key and see if it works.