OL2003 hangs on receive

[6999pete]

I have OL2003 on XP home, with Firefox, ZoneAlarm system, and MS
Antispyware. I can open and send/receive with OL no problem. When I leave OL
to do other tasks, eventually OL will hang up on the receive part of an auto
send/receive. I close and reopen OL and it will work just fine. I have not
been able to associate another task to this problem. There is no set time,
in fact auto s/r will work in background for long periods of time then hang
or it can hang in 10 minutes or so.

I searched through about 2,000 messages here and did not find htis problem

Thanks for your assistance,
Pete

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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I have OL2003 on XP home, with Firefox, ZoneAlarm system, and MS
Antispyware. I can open and send/receive with OL no problem. When I
leave OL to do other tasks, eventually OL will hang up on the receive
part of an auto send/receive. I close and reopen OL and it will work
just fine. I have not been able to associate another task to this
problem. There is no set time, in fact auto s/r will work in
background for long periods of time then hang or it can hang in 10
minutes or so.
I searched through about 2,000 messages here and did not find htis
problem
Thanks for your assistance,
Pete

Get in the habit of manually minimizing OL2003's window, rather than Alt+Tab
or clicking on another window in your taskbar. See
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827310 for info. I think this is still a
problem even with the latest critical updates/patches (which you should
download & run anyway, note) but as I'm in the habit of clicking the
Minimize button anyway, I haven't noticed any difference lately.

 

[6999pete]

That rings true to me. I do have large PST files, one is a very large
archive that I keep open so it is indexed. I'm going to close it out for
awhile and try that minimize thingie. I'll let you know if I have success as
well.

thank you,
Pete

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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That rings true to me. I do have large PST files, one is a very large
archive that I keep open so it is indexed. I'm going to close it out
for awhile and try that minimize thingie. I'll let you know if I have
success as well.

thank you,
Pete

You're welcome - hope it helps.