I was lazy!

Thank you again for the info.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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What does that have to do with your Internet provider?
Use the Microsoft public news server. That's where you're posting, you
know.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Rich" wrote in message
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My Internet provider doesnt have an XP Fax group available. I'll do some
more digging. I found a number of error events logged oin the event
viewer to investigate.

Thank you again
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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I would post in the XP Fax group. Perhaps someone there has seen it. I
would still post a lot more detail that "it was the only change I made."
That would mean nothing to someone who wasn't watching what you were
doing.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Rich" wrote in message
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I suspected it because it was the only change I had made. When I remove
FAX services the problem goes away.

There were no error messages but I'll look at the event viewer and
logs.

Sorry about posting here. This seems to be a news group with active
users.

Thank you.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Rather a vague, convoluted story. Why did you suspect the Fax Service
in the first place? What made you think uninstalling it would help?
If I were you I'd be looking for more concrete steps to reproduce your
problem, error messages, and Event viewer. Trust me, no one has
reported anything like it, especially in this group, which is for
Outlook.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Rich" wrote in message
news I have a strange problem after installing WinXP FAX services. I am
running XP MCE SP2 on a Dell XPS410 with all security and hotfixes
done. I use Trend Micro Internet Security 2007.

After re-booting, the desktop comes up normally but I can't do
anything for several minutes with a number of applications such as
IE6 or Control Panel Add/Remove Programs. These hang for several
minutes. Eventually they will run. Un-intstalling Fax Services cures
the problem.

The FAX service does work just fine once up and running. I have tried
auto answer off and automatic. Having the phone line connected to the
modem makes no difference. I didn't go into Outlook to configure
anyhting there since I do not use Outlook.

Process Explorer doesn't show any activity other System Idle Process
during the hang. Once whatever is hanging is done then I see changes
and additions to the Processes in Process Explorer.

I looked at the Microsoft Knowledge Base, also Bruces Printing Pages
and Slipstick.com but didn't see any comments about this problem. A
Google search didn't come up with similar problems.

Anybody have any ideas?


Thank you


Rich