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[Quoted Text] > Outlook 2003, running on Windows XP with service Pack 2, was set to
> open in the inbox. For some while now I had noticed that it was
> rather slow. In fact, it would take 20 seconds to display the first
> e-mail, regardless of whether this was in its own window or in the
> reading pane and for this time took CPU use to 100%. This also applied
> for the second e-mail but all subsequent e-mails displayed
> immediately. This applies to all email folders and on a slower machine
> (this 2.8GHz P4 with 1GB RAM) could easily lock the machine for
> minutes.
>
> After a lot of investigation I was able to work out that this only
> occurred if the first e-mails to be displayed were in RTF or HTML
> format. They displayed immediately if in plain text. Please note that
> this has nothing to do with the presence of attachments or remote
> images etc.
>
> Curiously, I also found that if Outlook was set to open on the Outlook
> Today page then this problem did not occur, even if I went straight
> to the inbox after starting Outlook and well within the 20 seconds
> lockup time that would have applied if I had opened Outlook in an
> email folder.
>
> I havent been able to defeat this problem. The obvious workaround is
> simply to leave Outlook set to open on the Outlook today page but I
> would be interested to know if anyone else has observed this and if
> there is a fix for itso that I can have Outlook open in the inbox,
> which is where I would prefer it to be.
>
> Thanks
>
>MikeCarno[ at ]Metrocast.Net
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