I've been having that trouble too, for the past couple of days....very annoying. glad to know I'm not alone, because that tells me it isn't my computer but just AOL up to their confusing tricks again. If they would just tell us they are working on something, it would be a lot less annoying. I am slowly getting to the end of my patience with AOL Patricia In a message dated 4/29/2010 12:00:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, aolers-rootsweb-request@rootsweb.com writes: I'm using AOL 9.0 SE with Windows XP. Yesterday I noticed when I tried to open and close email, it kept hanging up and the hourglass went on and on.