Weird Outlook 2003 happenings

Factual Questions
1

Suddenly my Outlook slowed to a crawl. So I scanned and found nothing.

Called my SBC DSL support and a nice lady in India helped me out - sort of. She had me boot up as Administrator, and created a “new” account - actually the same old one that I have in my UserName boot (as opposed to Admin boot) - and it works just like before.

I go back to my UserName boot and Outlook there is as slow as ever.

Any suggestions as to the cause and cure?

2

Never mind. Solved it. TY

3

The suspense is killing me. How did you solve it?

4

First off, it’s because I was stupid.

I have long lost pal turn up, and in the course of our emails, I mentioned how I’ve been playing Hold 'Em - for Play Money - online. He comes back with a confession of total ignorance to the game. So to simplify my explanation I made a video of a few hands, and attached this to an email to him.

I didn’t notice that the attachment came to 90 Megs. (Told you I was stupid.) Well I must have closed Outlook, so it switched the email to the Outbox where, whenever it was opened, it would keep trying and trying to send that damn email, and it isn’t until I’m on my second call to India (where SBC has outsourced all their DSL Help) do I notice this, go to the Outbox and delete the damned thing.

Bingo!! Slowness ends and Outlook is screaming with speed once again. And I’m doing this while trying to explain my problem to the Tech Support guy how Outlook has slowed to almost a standstill. The I have to tell him how I solved the problem. Very embarrassing.

But I’ll tell you, it caused some other baffling things.

Before making that critical deletion, if I closed Outlook I couldn’t t reopen it by doubleclicking the icon. I’d have to reboot, and then I’d get slapped me into SAFE mode (just Outlook, nothing else) where it’s even much, much slower.

Figuring I was infected with Spyware, I even bought some new antispyware software. Oh well, it’s so nice to have Outlook up and running properly that I don’t mind too much, except now I’m admitting to utter idiocy.

I hope this all makes sense to you.