Just to add 1 more thing to this is that while my computer stops for
that one minute, if I look at the CPU usage monitor, it goes upto 100%
and stays there until the 1 minute is up..
Regards
Stuart

P.S. I'm running a 200MHz Pentium Pro with 64 megs of ram

Mark Willis wrote:
>
> Uh, since that message's from the PICBasic-L List, we really cannot do
> much about it - I don't know much about Outlook Express, I'd suggest the
> usual helpful things (While Netscape is shut down I regularly delete and
> re-create the Netscape Cache Directory, to preclude directory structure
> fragmentation in the directory headers;  I clean out my Temp directory
> regularly;  I delete all the *.snm files in my mail directory to keep
> Netscape from getting confused;  And, I defrag my drives regularly - I'm
> on WFW 3.11 though) - I'm not sure that those suggestions will help you
> much.
>
> It does sorta sound like a fragmented hard drive or a low memory
> condition or the like, though.  Except that, those should "hiccup" on
> most any message after the first one to get resources low...
>
>   Mark
>
> Stuart wrote:
> > High everyone, since we are on the topic of having problems with messages
> > etc I thought I'd report my problem I've been having for quite a while. When
> > I receive a message from certain people on the list it can take about 1
> > minute to open the message once I've downloaded it, if I highlite the
> > message and hit delete, that to takes about 1 minute. It doesn't do it for
> > everyone and it doesn't do it for the same person every time BUT if it
> > occurs on a message it will also happen to every reply to that message.
> > For example the attached message from Dragan Kujovic basically causes my
> > computer to stop for 1 minute if i try to read or even preview it, if anyone
> > replies to this message the same will happen to their message but Dragan
> > Kujovic may send another message in a week and it will be fine.
> > Does anyone know what could be causing this?
> >
> > Regards
> > Stuart
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >                                                                        Name: PICBASIC-L RE Picbasic Pro wish list (17Cxxx, 18Cxxx ...).eml
> >    PICBASIC-L RE Picbasic Pro wish list (17Cxxx, 18Cxxx ...).eml       Type: message/rfc822
> >                                                                    Encoding: 7bit
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