Xp windows Home Edition crashes

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Hi I need help with my computer , I am new at this and
have had my comp for one year,it was rebuilt one week ago
and it still crashes all the time. Some times it will let
me download updates then crashes,or it will crash on
start up. This is very confusing as this happens no
matter what I do.All the hard wear is new and working
very well,I have windows XP home edition and office 2003
on a 120gig hard drive and other programs they all work
well except for the crashing all the time. Can you help
in any way.
Secondly I am trying to use office outlook for my email
site but it wont work it keeps saying it needs to be
connected , but I am connected at the time then it say's
I must put in my name and explorer login thingie.