I hope that this doesn't make me sound stupid, but does it make sense that, no matter what I'm doing, my computer practically slows down to a halt when Outlook is sending/receiving?

Any attachments to send/receive? Is there a virus scanner running that is perhaps scanning your mails?

You know what, Tarun...that's very possible. I'll take a look at it and see, that didn't occur to me, and I haven't been using Outlook for very long.

Sometimes if the scan is on, and Outlook is working; system resource usage will make a large jump up, especially CPU cycles and memory usage.

That is a flaw in Outlook that alot of people don't like about it.

If you turn off the scan going in and out, it will speed up dramatically.

I would recommend Thunderbird as an alternative to Outlook...

I would recommend Thunderbird as an alternative to Outlook...

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Yep, me too. Without a doubt.

I disabled the "Spam Killer" and that seems to have made a difference....thanks. As for Thunderbird, I tried switching over to it fairly recently and for some reason all of my emails and addresses weren't imported. I just haven't looked at it again since then, but I will try again and seek your collective knowledge for help when I can better explain what's going on.

Thank you, guys. :D

I hope that this doesn't make me sound stupid....

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The only question that is stupid is the one that is not asked!! :D

the problem with thunderbird is that it doesnt have a nice calendar build in like outlook... (ok i know there is a calendar extension for thunderbird)...

of coz, i am using thunderbird as well... :D

Sunbird is a calendar. :D