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Outlook Express 6 takes literally about 1 min to load... why?

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Parn

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I just installed windows XP, and am using Outlook Express 6. When I try to load it, it pops up the splash screen, and stays there for about a minute. Outlook Express 5 used to load so much faster. Is this just the way it is... or something with my config?

Windows XP Professional Full w/Service Pack 1
Norton Systemworks running Antivirus check in background.
Athlon XP 2000+
Epox 8k3ae
Crucial PC2700 256mb
Maxtor D740X 40GB
 
Did you by any chance uninstall/remove the program Windows Messenger. Which is installed by default with the OS. If so, then the tip below will solve that problem. 😉

To repair the slow loading of OE that results:
Run: regedt32. Click on "Edit" and select "Find". Copy and paste
FB7199AB-79BF-11D2-8D94-0000F875C541 onto the "Find what" box and click on
"Find". Once found, click on the plus sign in front of it and you will
find InProc32 and LocalServer32. Select one of them then right click on
default under the name column and select "modify", then simply delete what's
in the Value Data box. Repeat for the other.
 
Oh my god... Thank you SO MUCH.

I was getting so annoyed with this. First, annoyed by OE loading Windows Messenger with it (MS trying to convert ppl all the time), then now it was loading slow...

It fixed it. Thank you so much
 
No problem. 😀 😉 I ran into that problem my self and it took me some time to find the answer. Just thought I would give a fellow AT person a hand.
 
Does that fix only work if messenger is removed. I still want to be able to use messenger and I want it to log on with outlook express, an option that dissapeared now. I don't know what I did, I just installed SP1 as far as I know but OE starts very slowly and when it does, although messenger does not apear, the task msmsgs.exe does show up in task and worst of all I can do nohing to close it. Not even kill from norton process viewer will remove it. When I shut down OE and reload it is still slow but a second msmsgs.exe is loaded with it but this one I can actualy kill but still can't kill the original.

Your fix sounds great but I do not want to remove messenger I just want it to run normaly. The one thing I do want is for it to never start at startup, and it would be nice to be able to close it while OE is running without using kill.


Thanks
Michael Elkin
 
Originally posted by: elkinm
Does that fix only work if messenger is removed. I still want to be able to use messenger and I want it to log on with outlook express, an option that dissapeared now. I don't know what I did, I just installed SP1 as far as I know but OE starts very slowly and when it does, although messenger does not apear, the task msmsgs.exe does show up in task and worst of all I can do nohing to close it. Not even kill from norton process viewer will remove it. When I shut down OE and reload it is still slow but a second msmsgs.exe is loaded with it but this one I can actualy kill but still can't kill the original.

Your fix sounds great but I do not want to remove messenger I just want it to run normaly. The one thing I do want is for it to never start at startup, and it would be nice to be able to close it while OE is running without using kill.


Thanks
Michael Elkin
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I really don't know if that tip will help your problem off hand. Without searching the net to see if someone else is using it and having the same problems. The first thing I done after I installed XP is to remove the 'Windows Messenger' from the system which I hate so much. Since I don't use the problem I can't really say.

I know for sure that tip will solve. If you removed the program and now OE loads very slow.
 
I disabled OE through the SP1 functions and through gpedit and rertarted the system. At boot I no longer had msmsgs.exe running. Started OE but it took exactly 30 seconds to load. Might have something to do with the IE and nework search problem where it alos somtimes might take 30 seconds to swich between computer or pages, or maybe its just a coincidence. msmgs.exe did not load al all this time. Next I enabled messenger in windows and gpedit and restarted OE. Loaded fine, still a little slower then before as I could feel the time to load messenger BEFORE OE could load. This seems to be a crapy addition to SP1 to rout OE through messenger somehow causing OE to slow down without it. I noiced that the log on to messenger at starup option was back in settings but was not when sp1 dissabled it so that was the problem. Also I folloed the advice found at a different thread about renaiming the messenger folder to something else and then OE would load instantly but messenger would not. This tells me that SP1 somehow in its implementation explicidly slows OE in the way it dissables the option to log on as messenger is clearly not necessary to log on but somehow SP1 makes in necessary when it dissables it. It's all completely messed up my Microsoft so hopefuly SP2 and some fixes very soon may fix the many many bugs of SP1.
 
The priblem is back. Msmsgs.exe loaded with OE as usual but for some reason it did not shut down so now there is now way shut it down and OE takes at least 2 minutes to load instead of the 30 seconds mentioned before. Any ideas on what could keep it from shuting down or any programs that can actualy kill it? Restarting the system entierly will fix it for a few OE loads and then the same thing happens. Loging off and back on does nothing about this problem though as it remains loaded. I'm used to have my system running for days if not weeks without a reastart and with I have to restart several times a day. This is very anoying and any possible fix would be greatly apreciated. Aslo I tried looking in the registry and could not find the key mentioned above, could it be diferent on my system?

Also, is there a way to load two seperate programs in one startup striing in an icon. Lets say OE and Messener with the OE icon as then maybe if I rename the messenger directory and have messenger open seperatly I might get the functionality I am looking for without slowing down OE. Also, is there a way to set up messenger so it would shut down automaticaly with OE?

Thanks
 
These problems are why I went ahead and spent the money on Office to have Outlook '97, far less hassles on my 98 box. Wish I new about the registry hack months ago, that's OK, I use powerpoint a lot anyway so Office was a good move for me, but OE6 on 98, screwed up much in my pc.
 
I wish for once software would be released without a thousand components with it. BLOATWARE is evil

That's why I like the new Phoenix browser so much....good mozilla code, and not stuffed like Netscape and IE
 
You can also disable Windows Messenger in XP by renaming the messenger folder in program files to messengerOLD.
 
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