Win XP locks up -- must reboot

[John Christofferson]

We have two computers that have Win XP installed as an
upgrade from Win Me, and both tend to lock up and require
a reboot -- can't get the Task Manager or any reaction
from Ctrl+Alt+Del. At one time I suspected Outlook, but
today it locked up after booting up and there were no
apps running yet. My wife's business PC was getting
worse and since she emptied Outlook's deleted folder, it
is running much better. I've used Win NT and Win 2000 at
work for years and have never seen anything like this.
Any ideas, anyone?

 

[Malke]

We have two computers that have Win XP installed as an
upgrade from Win Me, and both tend to lock up and require
a reboot -- can't get the Task Manager or any reaction
from Ctrl+Alt+Del. At one time I suspected Outlook, but
today it locked up after booting up and there were no
apps running yet. My wife's business PC was getting
worse and since she emptied Outlook's deleted folder, it
is running much better. I've used Win NT and Win 2000 at
work for years and have never seen anything like this.
Any ideas, anyone?

I suggest you format the drives and clean install Windows, being sure
that the formerly ME machines are powerful enough to successfully run
XP. Although some people have had good results with a in-place upgrade,
many problems can be avoided by doing a clean install instead.

Malke