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Outlook 2003 with IE7 on Windows XP?
See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/27

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
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> When I try to compose a message in outlook the letters ake a half a second
> or
> so to display. Other functions seem to take forever to act.?????????