See if any of the info at this site helps fix it. If you disabled Windows
(or MSN) Messenger, you could have created the problem for yourself and a
fix is there:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/performance.htm

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> For some reason OE6 has started to take about 30 seconds to open and once
> open it take about 20 seconds to look at contacts/properties.
> I check Tasks running and nothing unusual is listed. All my other
> applications run perfect.
> Does anyone have any idea why?
Ben H - 30 Mar 2004 18:47 GMT
Jim
Thanks for the info. I deleted the registry lines and it works perfect now.
> See if any of the info at this site helps fix it. If you disabled Windows
> (or MSN) Messenger, you could have created the problem for yourself and a
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> > applications run perfect.
> > Does anyone have any idea why?
Jim Pickering - 30 Mar 2004 19:40 GMT
Glad to hear it's all well again. Thanks for the feedback.

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> Jim
> Thanks for the info. I deleted the registry lines and it works perfect
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>> > applications run perfect.
>> > Does anyone have any idea why?