I am running XP Pro SP3 and Basic Office 2007.

When I click on a hyperlink in Outlook 2007 it opens very slowly. It often takes 30 seconds or more for IE7 to display the web page. If I copy and paste the link to IE7 URL bar it will open immediately.

Has anyone here had the same problem and how did you fix it? No generic fixes please. I tried them all - shut down IE and Outlook add-ins - defrag - checkdisk - clear temp & temp internet files - dump cookies - msconfig running at bare eminimum - cleaned registry with CCleaner and Glary Utilities - no unnecessary services are running - even did Office repair from the installation CDROM. Nothing works.

I am stumped.