E-mail programs hang system

I am running Windows 98se with Office 2000 premium, internet explorer 6 and use outlook as my main e-mail program. A few weeks ago Outlook started to lock my system up when I would start the program. It seemed as if when the program would just finish loading and I would hear a warning ding and then the whole system would hang, (no warning messages or blue pages jsut a frozen e-mail program and a frozen computer). After trying to troubleshoot the problem I tried an old two button mouse and Outlook worked fine so I got a new Intellimouse (thinking that my old one was bad) and installed it. The system hangs again. I tried Outlook Express and it will run about a minute and then hang the system just like outlook. I tried to install the old two button mouse and this time the system hangs with it installed to

 

What antivirus program do you use? Disable it completely or uninstall it. Try again.

 

I run McAfee onlline. When I removed it there was no difference. My system locked as soon as outlook loaded. I did notice though that McAfee must be a resource hog becuse removing it freed up things quite a bit.

Thanks
Kevin

 

Try repairing IE through the control panel. It will repair OE also. See if that fixes OE. If so, Office has a repair feature, or try removing Outlook and reinstall. Post back good or bad.