Having installed a new computer and transferred all my e-mails from the old
one, I decided that it was time to do some long-overdue housekeeping, as a
result of which the contents of the inbox was reduced from around 1700
documents to under 1000. During the course of this purge, however, I
encountered an unexpected problem. After removing about 15 e-mails, my new
computer locked and no more could be deleted. The only way in which the
process could be continued was to quit Outlook Express and then restart it.
On each occasion, that allowed a further 15 or so e-mails to be deleted
before the machine re-froze, and so the process continued until all the
unwanted documents had been removed. The majority of lock-ups were not
accompanied by an error message but sometimes I was informed that my disk was
full or write-protected, which was obviously untrue. My new computer has a
Core 2 Quad processor, 3 Gb of memory and a 160 Gb hard disk, 87% of which is
currently unused! The machine runs under Windows XP Pro, which was installed
by the manufacturer. Can anyone explain the situation and, perhaps, offer a
solution?
--
Peter Hallett

Not here, which is a group dedicated to Outlook, but maybe on a group that
supports IE where outlook express is supported

"Peter Hallett" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Having installed a new computer and transferred all my e-mails from the
> old
> one, I decided that it was time to do some long-overdue housekeeping, as a
> result of which the contents of the inbox was reduced from around 1700
> documents to under 1000. During the course of this purge, however, I
> encountered an unexpected problem. After removing about 15 e-mails, my
> new
> computer locked and no more could be deleted. The only way in which the
> process could be continued was to quit Outlook Express and then restart
> it.
> On each occasion, that allowed a further 15 or so e-mails to be deleted
> before the machine re-froze, and so the process continued until all the
> unwanted documents had been removed. The majority of lock-ups were not
> accompanied by an error message but sometimes I was informed that my disk
> was
> full or write-protected, which was obviously untrue. My new computer has
> a
> Core 2 Quad processor, 3 Gb of memory and a 160 Gb hard disk, 87% of which
> is
> currently unused! The machine runs under Windows XP Pro, which was
> installed
> by the manufacturer. Can anyone explain the situation and, perhaps, offer
> a
> solution?
> --
> Peter Hallett