I sue MS Outlook as my primary email client. I have an Asus A7N8X with
a AMD XP 2500 and scads of RAM. Everything runs fantastic except MS
Outlook. In the Inbox whenever I have the preview pane open, it takes
forever to go from one email to hte next. FOr instance I'm sitting
there hitting the down arrow to browse through my inbox each time I
hit the down arrow, it pauses for a few seconds before displaying the
next message. During this pause, the system acts like it's locked. If
I turn off the preview pane, I can hit the down arrow and move right
through the spambox.. I mean INBOX. I have other systems very simular
to this one and they run fine with the preview pane open. What gives
and how do I fix it? The 1337 person who sovles this one gets paid!!

dude, disable Messegin services, in the tools menu. 

Goto Tools -> Options -> Other -> then make sure the bottom field is
not checked. ' Enable Instant Messaging in Microsoft Outlook ' This
will speed up the process of the preview pane, the emails, in addition
to that will also speed up the execution of outlook itself. You will
notivce the difference.
Josh

what type of email account do you have set up?  (ie hotmail, IMAP,
POP3, Exchange)  that seems to me the most likely culprit.  a pop3,
exchange or hotmail account by default downloads each message when you
select that message, so it can take a while depending on the email
server, the speed of your internet connection, etc.

You can speed this up though.  For example, if your account is an IMAP
account, try this (taken directly from the Outlook Help File):

1 On the Tools menu, point to Send/Receive Settings, and then click
Define Send/Receive Groups.
2 Click a group that contains your IMAP account, and then click Edit. 
3 Under Accounts, click your IMAP account. 
4 In the list, select the check box for each folder you want to
include when checking e-mail, and after each folder you select, click
Download complete item including attachments.


Or, if you do have a type of account other than a pop3, see if you can
set the account up as a pop3 account (most servers let you check your
email using any of a variety of methods).  If you use a POP3 account,
Outlook will download *all* of your new messages when you check your
email--so a 'send/receive' might take longer than you're used to, but
going through your inbox should be much quicker.  (A search on 'POP3'
in the outlook help will tell you more about this type of account and
the various options you can use).

Also, you may try compacting your outlook data files.  From the 'file'
menu, pick 'data file management' .  Double click on each of the items
listed in the list box, and in the dialog that pops up, click 'compact
now.'

Hope that helps!

It is a POP3 account. I'm not sure if that will help. It does this
even with old emails that are already downloaded. As I scroll down
each one, it just seems to sit and think about it before moving on to
the next one. Very frustrating. I'll try turning off the IM deal.
Thanks I'll report my progress.