Re: OE6 stalls at startup

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Ook (MSNews_at_emberts.UpYoursSpammer.emberts.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:13:39 -0700

> For users on WinXP, when they remove windows messenger or just disable it
> from starting up automatically they experience a great slow down when
> launching Outlook express. Users who experience such a slow down will find
> a error in the system error log saying The server
> {FB7199AB-79BF-11D2-8D94-0000F875C541} did not register with DCOM within
> the required timeout. The solution this problem is quite simple. Just Open
> up Regedit and search for the string
> {FB7199AB-79BF-11D2-8D94-0000F875C541} and modify the keys InProc32 (or
> InProcServer32) and LocalServer32 default key to a empty string. After a
> reboot, Outlook Express will start up as quickly as possible. See:
> http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=108
>

Bingo! Strange - I've always disabled windows messenger to stop it from
starting, but it's never caused any problems before. Well, at least mystery
solved. Thanks!