OT: Strange Outlook behavior...

[Bill Vermillion]

When asked his whereabouts on Sat, Dec 18 16:22 , John Esak took the 
fifth, drank it, and then slurred: 


> I have what appears to be a virus... but I have checked
> thoroughly and their doesn't appear to be any virus on either
> of these two machines. They are my machine at home and my
> machine at work. They both now take about 4.5 minutes before
> they start downloading mail from my mailserver. Then, they
> download the mai as if nothing is wrong. Until they start
> downloading, I see only an hourglass.

> I have traced the processes has this happens and still can't
> determine exactly what is going on. I will do more extensive
> testing later today, but I'm just curious if nayone has ever
> seen this behavior.

This doesn't have to do with outlook but first a question.

Did you put in the patches from MS that were released this past
week.

I did that.

And all of a sudden things got slow.  Intead of writing at about
8X on a DVD it was writing about 1.2X.  And 2.4x RW which I record
to from a recorder and then edit on this machine - normally read
about 3x to 4x started readling at about .7x.

I tried several things, and then realized that the only thing I had
done that affected anyting was the MS patches from Tuesday.

I used the XP restore, and set the system back to Sunday night
and everything is back up to speed.

As I said, not outlook, but extreme slowness on DVDs and other
items in the OS.

Bill
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