When I upgraded my PC I was dissapointed that Outlook, by 100 times the slowest program I ever used, was still just as slow on a CPU twice the speed. A few weeks later the cable internet went down and I had to use dial up. To my surprise, Outlook was 1000 times slower, taking several minutes to open a reply dialog.

So this proves the Outlook slowness is due to it requesting someting online when I want to reply to an email. Is there anyway I can stop it requesting what it is online because it's pretty obvious that's why Outlook can manage to take 5 minutes to reply to a 200 byte plain text email on a 3800+ CPU.

Thanks