Why does outlook hang when I try to open it.

When I open MS Office Outlook thats as far as I get. I try to get my mail I
get no response. I open Task Manager and it says "Office is not responding".
I've tried system restore and repair from my disk. Both have the same result,
no success!

The version of outlook and type of account is?
I assume it was working?

"msh1952" <msh1952@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I open MS Office Outlook thats as far as I get. I try to get my mail
> I
> get no response. I open Task Manager and it says "Office is not
> responding".
> I've tried system restore and repair from my disk. Both have the same
> result,
> no success!