See this article. It says OE5, but applies to OE6 too.

Outlook Express Stops Responding and Your Pointer Appears as an Hourglass:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=259927

And:
Outlook Express Stops Responding or Does Not Start:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=274017
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"W2LTU" wrote in message
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Unable to use OE. Does not respond to clicking, hangs, "was not shut down
properly", cursor placed on "Tools" changes to hour glass. How can I
trouble
shoot this problem or fix it? Thanks.