Images in email load very slowly, even if from safe sender?

[Jakobkraft]

I was using the Live Mail desktop client for awhile but I needed more PIM
features (the recent Calendar integration into Live mail is a nice touch but
it's not enough) so I switched to Outlook 2007. I'm liking it a lot so far,
does everything I need and more for school- but I'm noticing that emails with
a lot of images - which have been marked by me as coming from a 'Safe Sender'
still take several seconds to load the images. Compared to the instantaneous
loading of these same images from the very same list of 'Safe Senders' in
Live Mail Desktop, I cannot help but wonder if there is something I can do in
Outlook to speed up image loading in all emails from 'Safe Senders'?

Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thanks in advance!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Are these attached images, embedded images or linked images on a web server?
It makes a big difference when trying to answer this question.

Virus scanners are a usual suspect here as they often integrate with Outlook
but not with Windows Live Mail. Disable/uninstall this integration and try
again.
See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/20

 

[Jakobkraft]

I'm actually not sure if the images are embedded or not -- but one of the
messages whose images takes at least three or four seconds to display is
fromthe online Live Calendar reminding me about an event. I guess those are
images from a server...?

I have AVG installed but when I first installed it I made sure the 'E-mail
Scanner' option was unchecked - would it still slow down my Outlook?
Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It shouldn't interfere with Outlook then.
How does Outlook perform when loaded in Safe Mode?
Start-> Run; outlook.exe /safe

Also, if you set your picture blocking settings to always block - so you'll
have to manually download the pictures via the Infobar - does it load faster
then?