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Outlook is slow in opening

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by manm 1 view

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Last year we had Wins 98 op sys and Outlook 2000. This year they installed Wins 2000 Professional, and we still have the same Outlook 2000. When we had Wins 98, Outlook would open right away. With the Wins 2000, it seems to take at least a minute ormore after clicking on it before the application will open. Any suggestions for getting it to work better/faster?

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by ray j

You could probably try two things. If you updated directly from windows 98 to 2k then the best would be to remove outlook and reinstall it. If that's too big of a job, then try selecting the hellp menu in outlook and select detect and repair. Thiswill check any outlook components that are corrupted or invalid and reinstall them.

by dimitri.asselman

Check if the "loadwc" entry in the registry is loaded at startup... if so, delete it from the run list in the registry
(local machine\software\microsoft\windows\run)

We had that probby on our pc's... deleting teh loadwc from registry did the trick !

by johnvbrennan

Has your outlook.pst file grown much over the last year? This is the file that stores all your emails that come into you outlook inbox. If you haven't been deleting mails then this can grow quite large and consequently it takes longer to load when you are starting outlook. Just a thought.

by manm

Evidently it was looking at an external ip instead of an internal ip. This was the explanation I got from outside tech support. Thanks to all who responded.

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