Hi!

I have a machine with an MSI MB, Athlon 32 3200+ processor, 1GB of ram,
Norton Systemworks 2003, and Office 2003. The machine works fine until I
open Outlook 2003 (this problem is new, but I have opened and used all other
software before opening Outlook to make sure that the behavior only happens
after Outlook has been opened). The behavior is a bit difficult to
describe. Basically, the whole machine stops responding (freezes) for a few
seconds, then you can move the mouse around but nothing happens (the machine
doesn't respond to any imput). I've been screwing around with this all day.
During this process I've learned by opening task manager before Outlook that
every 17 seconds some process hits the processor at 100%; otherwise the
processor load is 0%. Due to the "freezing" I haven't been able to tell
what process is involved. I do know that the size of the Outlook memory
process keeps growing (to over 85MB. Also, there appears to be 2 instances
of Outlook running in the task manager (which I just noticed right now --
this message has taken about 20 minutes to type between freezes). I've
Googled everything I can think of other than the myltiple instances, which I
am going to try right now. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Bob Horton