I suspected it because it was the only change I had made. When I remove FAX
services the problem goes away.

There were no error messages but I'll look at the event viewer and logs.

Sorry about posting here. This seems to be a news group with active users.

Thank you.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Rather a vague, convoluted story. Why did you suspect the Fax Service in
the first place? What made you think uninstalling it would help?
If I were you I'd be looking for more concrete steps to reproduce your
problem, error messages, and Event viewer. Trust me, no one has reported
anything like it, especially in this group, which is for Outlook.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Rich" wrote in message
news
I have a strange problem after installing WinXP FAX services. I am running
XP MCE SP2 on a Dell XPS410 with all security and hotfixes done. I use
Trend Micro Internet Security 2007.

After re-booting, the desktop comes up normally but I can't do anything
for several minutes with a number of applications such as IE6 or Control
Panel Add/Remove Programs. These hang for several minutes. Eventually
they will run. Un-intstalling Fax Services cures the problem.

The FAX service does work just fine once up and running. I have tried
auto answer off and automatic. Having the phone line connected to the
modem makes no difference. I didn't go into Outlook to configure anyhting
there since I do not use Outlook.

Process Explorer doesn't show any activity other System Idle Process
during the hang. Once whatever is hanging is done then I see changes and
additions to the Processes in Process Explorer.

I looked at the Microsoft Knowledge Base, also Bruces Printing Pages and
Slipstick.com but didn't see any comments about this problem. A Google
search didn't come up with similar problems.

Anybody have any ideas?


Thank you


Rich