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Howard Woodard wrote:

> I have a Sony Vaio running XP Pro sp2 with a P4 running at 2.8 mhz. It has
> 1gb of RAM and lots of free space on a couple of 7200 rpm drives.
>
> Right after booting up, when I start MSN and select Mail the browser will
> just hang for anywhere from 30 sec to over a minute. During that time the
> system is either hung as well or is just stuck waiting for MSN. While it is
> in this state it is not using any cycles -- CPU is 98% idle -- or excess
> memory. Nor are there any page swaps, I/O or network activity. Everything
> show to be at "idle" but the PC is just stuck between the request to go to
> Mail and actually displaying any messages. Once it breaks free and displays
> the message list it will again hang when a message is selected and take a
> similar amount of time before it pops free and displays the message content.
> At this time the system will run just fine from then on.
>
> Btw, it doesn't have to be the MSN explorer -- that just happens to be what
> I do most often. If the first thing I do is to open up windows explorer or
> IE then its the same situation, just a different set of data waiting to be
> displayed.
>
> While the system is in this frozen state the screen displays cannot be moved
> or minimized.
>
> Has anyone seen this "frozen with no activity" state before? Any idea what
> causes it?
>
> Howard
>
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