Outlook Express

[m4tt]

I recently installed MSN Messenger, and since then it takes over a minute to open up Outlook Express. Normally it only takes a few seconds. Could the problem be related to that? Or could it be that Outlook Express just sucks?

[Endless]

I think MSN can interact with OE to show your MSN contact list inside OE (so you can directly mail them, I think). Look in the options if there isn't an option to disable it, that might be what slows your OE down.

[Yamaneko]

It does suck. The problem probably is related. MSN Messenger checks your Hotmail inbox everytime you sign in.

http://www.eudora.com/download/ is so much better. Or http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/ .

[m4tt]

I don't use Outlook for Hotmail though, it's for my cox@home mail. I'll try out eudora though.

[Leeza]

My Outlook used to do that for a while, but it all started after I did a Window Update. It lasted up until I did another Windows Update and then it was okay again.

[m4tt]

It's been a while since Windows asked me to update, so we'll see. Eudora seems to work nicely.