Slooooow Startup

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Every time I open Microsoft Outlook, it takes about two minutes or so for
the hourglass on my mouse pointer to change to arrow (meaning the
application is ready to use).
I have about 7 Hotmail accounts that are listed in this profile together
with 1 Adelphia.net account which is my main account. I think the reason it
takes too long to initialize is because Outlook is sycronizing folders by
logging onto hotmail. I have only included Adelphia account to be in
SEND/RECEIVE option when I click on it.
I ONLY want hotmail to syncronize when I click on the Hotmail account Group
from Tools>Send Receive>Hotmail which I created and included the 7 Hotmail
accounts to be associated with. However I can't do this.
Every time I open the program it just takes forever to syncronize with all
hotmail accounts and I can't do anything during that time, because the
program seem to be frozen.
Any help with this?
I am running WinXP Pro with Office XP Premium. Connection is Adelphia
cable.(cable connection sucks in this area though. It seems to be a dialup
connection).
Thanks in advance
Gino

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

No, you can't change Outlook logging into the Hotmail accounts at startup.
Consider yourself lucky, though - most people are unable to get more than
one Hotmail account working, and you've got 7...

 

[kullmann]

Nice answer. Is there an activity that is occuring at startup that could be
taking soooo long. I am having the same problem. Tom Kullmann
(e-mail address removed)

 

[kullmann]

Disabling addin mgr did it for me.
Thanks, Tom
Kullmann Consulting

 

[DualBooter]

Hotmail accounts dont work that well in Outlook XP - I use Outlook Express
for my hotmail accounts

 

[kullmann]

I tried your suggestions. No soap. Am I asking the wrong question? Or am
I in the wrong group? Or is there another source for answers about Outlook?
Thanks.

 

[John C]

Just a thought.

I had a Hotmail account, and it slowed Outlook down.

What I did was to remove the Hotmail account, and a Yahoo account along woth
it, and set them up again in Outlook EXPRESS. You need to be sure that they
are set up to use "Any Available" by not checking anything on the Connection
tab.

That way I can control the 'soft' accounts I use by only accessing them via
OE, always using manual Send\Receive, leaving the main account free for
Outlook to do its normal thing. If you decide to go down this route, I
think Outlook will 'try' to import the accounts the first time you open it
after making the change. Tell it not to import the accounts, on the tile
that comes up, and you should be free of the hassle.

This is, as I say, just a workaround, but it does work

John C