As PaperTiger said, look at the blue bar of the Not Responding pop-up and see which program it is.
If it is Outlook Express than it cannot respond as it is still busy closing whatever was open. I.E. if you just looked at an HTML mail, there is a good chance that also the mail itself is only 10kB large, the actual load caused by links may be a manifold of this and OE needs to close all files first before it shuts down...
I do not work with OE but I saw (if my memory is correct) very recently an upgrade for OE somewhere mentioned as causing grieve...
But first, check what the window tells you.
One more thing, since W95 all younger versions of Windows have a key in the registry where the system is forced to present this pop-up window after 20 seconds. It is easy to change this setting but I do not recommend this as a program still busy closing down properly induces this window to appear and an inexperienced user may be offered to hit the SHUT DOWN NOW too early and valuable work may vanish bypassing the recycle bin....
Last edited by FL310; 4th May 2002 at 22:54.