outlook 2000 opens very slow

I have outlook 2000 running on 3 windows 98 machines with 128 in ram. Clean images. Outlook takes 1 1/2 minutes to open. Once it is open it works great. All other applicaitons work fine.

Any ideas on why outlook is so slow to open???

Thanks

 

Are you connecting to an Exchange Server upon Outlook's startup? We might be able to solve this using a HOSTS file.

 

Yup - exchange server or other? If other, what?

Do you have a load of stuff in your inbox/sent/deleted folders?

Have you archived lately? Too many stored posts can cause this.

Temp folder cleaned lately?

 

host file worked great

thanks

 

Cool beans.