Well, several more hours have gone by and I have been all over the internet
reading forums without a clue as to what the problem is. Now, when I start
Outlook I get a message across the top of the screen stating, "Upgrade in
Progress Your mailbox is currently being optimized. Performance may be
affected while this one time optimization is in progress." Unfortunately, MS
did not think of putting a progress meeter in so I have no clue as to if it
is actually doing something. In any event, there is no performance during
this time as the curser is just spinning away and I can't do anything. I'll
let it go till morning and then its back to Office XP for me.

"Riskmaniac" wrote:

Just installed Office Professional 2010. Outlook keeps locking up. I can
get it to start, although slow but once I click on a folder is just churns
away and nothing happens. I have to then shut it down and restart it. I
have a number of pst files. I have tried removing them and starting with out
them but that did not solve the problem. It locks even when clicking on
tasks. Not sure how to resolve it.