I have a Dell computer with Windows XP Home Edition 2002, SP2. RAM is 219 GHz, 768 MB.

I have been using Outlook 2000 for years. Then a month ago I got a cyclic redundancy error. I was able to repair the inbox and got it going again. Then last week the same error again.

This time I repaired the inbox then installed Outlook 2003, hoping to avoid this problem in the future.

But now Outlook 2003 is extremely slow. If I double-click to open an email it takes over a minute before it will actually open. And in the meantime everything else on the computer just stops while waiting for Outlook to perform the operation (open an email, etc).

I definitely need Outlook to work faster, it is causing problems with doing my work, so I'm desperate.

Thanks so much!

i was experiencing horrible response with outlook 2003 on a new computer with 2G RAM, etc, etc. - i did everything - eliminated the IM tie in, archived, compacted - nothing helped - then finally a dell rep said go to add/remove programs and remove the “outlook addin installer” program - BAM - outlook now flies like the wind.

Have you tried Detect and Repair from the Help menu?
How big is your PST file? (Right-click Personal Folders folder and choose Properties...)