outlook express opening s-l-o-w-l-y

problem: outlook express taking 14 fortnights to open

what im not doing: just installing 'live mail' (although it is slightly better...)

seems that a dodgy autopatcher run has resulted in the above behaviour, but fairly straightforward to repair. logs show dcom error for

FB7199AB-79BF-11d2-8D94-0000F875C541

so a wee search in the registry takes me to

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FB7199AB-79BF-11d2-8D94-0000F875C541}

InProcServer32

LocalServer32

default value seems to be path to messenger. remove this to blank entry and we are back to normal!