opening errors - multiple screen

For the past three months I have been experiencing problems with Outlook
Express. It appears to open multiple screens in a blink of an eye and then
hangs finally displaying a message ' not responding'. It take multiple shut
down commands before I can get back to the start page and then repeats in the
same way, The settings for my email addresses getvrandomly corrupted as
well. I have tried the various resets and reinstallation commands ( which
have improved speed elsewher ) but the problem remains. Can anyone suggest a
remedy? I run XP home and there is adequate memory and disk space. Norton
reports no problems.

TIA

Pete Pendleton

"OldFCOman" wrote in message
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For the past three months I have been experiencing problems with Outlook
Express. It appears to open multiple screens in a blink of an eye and
then
hangs finally displaying a message ' not responding'. It take multiple
shut
down commands before I can get back to the start page and then repeats in
the
same way, The settings for my email addresses getvrandomly corrupted as
well. I have tried the various resets and reinstallation commands ( which
have improved speed elsewher ) but the problem remains. Can anyone
suggest a
remedy? I run XP home and there is adequate memory and disk space.
Norton
reports no problems.

TIA

Pete Pendleton

Norton is not reporting any problems, good, I'm 99% certain that Norton /Is
Causing/ the problem.

Disable email scanning in Norton, it serves no useful purpose and is known
to cause similar problems, like changing your server name to 127.0.0.1?


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Regards Steve.
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