Serious Outlook 2000 Freezes

[webgyrl]

Yikes!

 

Hope someone here can help me shed some light on this issue I am having.

 

I have Outlook 2000 on my Windows 98 SE OS. Running a 550mHz processor, 256MB RAM.

 

A few days ago I noticed something fishy with Office SB 2000 in general. I went to Start > Open Office Document and it asked me for the SB 1 Install disk to perform the action, which is abnormal. I inglored that and got the Word file a different way.

 

Then about 3 days ago Outlook started to act fishy. It would hang while downloading email and then it started to not let me open or delete files. Now it opens, but it won't let me do a thing.

 

I backup Outlook every day, so I figured that if I uninstalled Office 2000 and reinstalled it it would fix the issue. I uninstalled both SR-1 and SR-2 from my OS. I then rebooted and re-installed. THe only thing I did notice was that C > Program Files > Microsoft Office Folder was still there with a bunch of stuff in it. I didn't trash the file before re-installing, I just installed over the folder.

 

Finished the re-install and then I opened Outlook. To my surprise all my email etc was there already. The email started to download and that little Norton Email Scanner thng went nuts, really rapid... strange also. But maybe not as I haven't been able to check email from Outlook for 2 days now.

 

Anyway, Outlook froze again. When it freezes as simple End Task will not shut it down. I have to do a hard shut down and then re-boot.

 

I just did a full system virus scan on 05/04 and the system was clean. I also have Spysweeper and did a scan, nothing came up.

 

I'm running Norton Internet Security 2004, which itself has been buggy this last week.

 

I have no clue what could be causing this problem.

 

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please post here.

 

Thanks so much,

Natalie

[LisaJill]

Try Thunderbird?

 

My Outlook (Outlook 2003 on an XP machine) mysteriously quit talking to the pop3 servers ONLY for my main email address about 2 weeks ago. Rather than try to fix it, I dropped it since Thunderbird was running flawlessly.

 

I think it would run on your box; but I'm not 100% sure....

 

Uh, sorry for not helping directly?

[webgyrl]

Lisa,

 

Yeah i have been meaning to check TB out.

 

I think I may have found the culprit.

 

I recently signed up for a newsletter and these issues started happening around that time. I notice the newsletter is heavy HTML formated... goodness only knows what else it's trying to load.

 

I unsubscribed and then did a few maneuvers to delete those newlsetters and so far so good.

 

Grrrr hate people who send you stuff that craps out your system.

 

Thanks so much,

Nat

[LisaJill]

Oh yick; and you went through all that hassle over that? =/

 

Seriously though, I'd still try out Thunderbird; it's nifty. =)