Cause of Outlook slowness found, any solutions?

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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

[geeksRus]

try disabling Instant Messaging integration in Outlook.

[3fingersalute]

which version of outlook are we talking about ?

[Gabriel]

Are you using RPC over HTTP?
or you are working in SMTP/POP mode?

[DonJ]

How about if you're working OffLine? You should still be able to reply or open new messages without even being logged onto the internet. Is it still slow?

This really sounds like something else is sucking up your resources. It definitely shouldn't take 5 minutes to Reply.