For some odd reason.....MS Outlook takes up to five minutes to load. It was running fine before. I dont know when it started exactly. I upgraded IE from 5.x which came with Windows 2000 to IE 5.5. The problem with the upgrade is because of Windows 2000....you can only update IE....not Outlook. Outlook is still the same version that installed with Windows 2000. Has anyone else run into this problem. Thanks

Once you get into Outlook, go into the journal and then hit the tools-options menu, then the jounral tab, Check to see if there are a bunch of Office Documents in your journal I would suggest deleting them or moving them to a directory outside the outlook path, then uncheck the "record therse files" selections. By default MSFT has these load. Then check your oulook.pst file, It'sa probably huge and is loading all your journal stuff at startup. Godd luck

Once you get into Outlook, go into the journal and then hit the tools-options menu, then the journal tab. Check to see if there are a bunch of Office Documents ( docs, xls, mdb's) in your journal I would suggest deleting them or moving them to a directory outside the outlook path, then uncheck the "record these files" selections. By default MSFT has these load in the journal. Then check your oulook.pst file, It's probably huge and is loading all your journal stuff at startup. Good luck

I wonder if this is a result of deleting the scheduled task registry enter. If you find a solution Undo please post it.

I thought about that too. :)))) I deleted the Scheduled Check entry in my Windows 2000 registry. I dont use Outlook as my default email.....so I didnt notice this problem until today. I will see if I can restore the registry and see if that fixes this problem. By the way....I forgot to mention this is Outlook Express were talking about here. Not the full version of Outlook.

Ok I found the problem.....for those interested its wasnt because I deleted the scheduled tasks in the registry. I think what happened is perhaps Fixit 3.0 might of deleted a entry that caused this long delay opening Outlook Express. I cant say for sure though. Ive used Fixit on numerous occasions and its never deleted a key that did any damage. I wish I could pin it down better. I reloaded a registry that I had backed up about 2 weeks ago and now OE opens like it always does. I deleted the scheduled task entry again so I know thats not the prob. Happy surfing

Another fix would be to load service pack 2 for Outlook 98, and also, service pack 2 for Windows 2000. I had the same problem with Outlook loading slow, but adding the packs have help tremendously. Thanks