Cowboy

I have a brand new (3 week old) Dell M4300 computer, T9300 2.5ghz intel core2
Duoe, 4GB of Ram, 512 GB video card...

And recently installed Windows Live 8.5.1302.1018, when my computer starts I
do not have it set to automatically log me in, because when I click login, it
will log me in & then while the MSN today window is opening, it will freeze
my computer totally up. I mean completly locked up. No typing, to alt tab, no
cltrl-alt-delete. The only way out is to hold down the power button &
bascially a crash power off.

Please help.... I am not using any firewalls, only built into Windows XP Pro
SP2, using AVG antivirus.