Outlook 2000 hangs immediately after startup

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Aaron

Hi group,

I'm using Outlook 2000 as my pop email client. I received
an email about an hour ago that I wanted to reply to.
Trying to reply to it several times caused Outlook to hang
up. Now, whenever I start outlook, I am able to work in it
for maybe 5 seconds before it hangs up.

I have 14,000+ msgs in my trash folder. I guess I forgot
to empty it out lately. All that damn spam. Anyway, I
can't have the program be responsive enough to delete
those items. I basically can't do anything. And I don't
even know for sure if that's the problem, but I do recall
having a full folder like that causing problems in the
past, just not this bad.

Any ideas? Anyway to delete the trash via my .pst file
without going into Outlook?
 
A

Andrealphus

Aaron said:
Hi group,

I'm using Outlook 2000 as my pop email client. I received
an email about an hour ago that I wanted to reply to.
Trying to reply to it several times caused Outlook to hang
up. Now, whenever I start outlook, I am able to work in it
for maybe 5 seconds before it hangs up.

I have 14,000+ msgs in my trash folder. I guess I forgot
to empty it out lately. All that damn spam. Anyway, I
can't have the program be responsive enough to delete
those items. I basically can't do anything. And I don't
even know for sure if that's the problem, but I do recall
having a full folder like that causing problems in the
past, just not this bad.

Any ideas? Anyway to delete the trash via my .pst file
without going into Outlook?
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Have you tried running the repair routine on your setup disk?

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