Re: msimn.exe and OE6 Problem

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From: Steve Cochran (scochran_at_oehelp.com)
Date: 10/20/04


Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:15:48 -0400

Disable all Norton software and reboot and see if it goes away. Various
Norton programs are known to interfere with OE's operations.

If that fixes it, you can selectively enable Nortons "functions" and see
which one is doing it.

steve

"Mark" <Mark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:60511EF0-AAC1-4789-9C4F-B6F1B6873DCC@microsoft.com...
> I have this same problem on two laptops, one running Windows XP Media
Center
> Edition 2004 SP2 and one running Windows XP Professional SP2. They both
are
> pretty identical. I installed Norton Internet Security 2005 on both of
them
> about a week ago and I am having a problem with the msimn.exe process.
These
> processes keep on building up in the task manager and eat up my system
> resources on both computers. At one point, I had about 20 msimn.exe listed
in
> the task manager. On one of my laptops, when I click a link to a webpage
in
> an e-mail, it will load the page but lock up if I try to do anything on
that
> webpage. IE never locks up except when I loaded it from a link in OE.
Another
> other IE window active will still run normally. I have run Pest Patrol and
> AdAware on both and removed any spyware. Does anybody have any solutions
for
> me to try? It is a really annoying problem. Thanks for any help or
> suggestions!
> --
> Mark



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