Thanks for the link, but everything else besides OE wasn't normal. The
upgraded IE8 loaded extremely slowly and then took another 3 or so minutes
to connect to the Internet. I didn't notice this at first because IE isn't
my default browser. I also noticed that CPU usage increased, sometimes to
100%, when I opened OE or anything else. And when I opened MS Word, I kept
getting an error about the printer not responding even though I wasn't
trying to print. I didn't notice all of this right away. I ended up calling
MS today, which is offering free support around IE8 until December. They
suggested that I uninstall IE8 and revert to IE7, which they helped me to
do, and this solved all the above problems. There's most likely a conflict
with one or more programs on my computer, but that would take a lot of time
and effort to figure out. I use IE so rarely that it didn't seem important
to upgrade right now.

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
Start he http://www.insideoe.com/problems/performance.htm

Andrea wrote:
Since upgrading to IE8, it takes several minutes for Outlook Express
to open
and then another 2 or 3 minutes to open an email or newsgroup post
that's already downloaded to my hard drive. Is there a conflict? If
so, any solutions? Thanks.