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Re: [OM] Question About WinXP and Outlook Express

Subject: Re: [OM] Question About WinXP and Outlook Express
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 13:03:57 -0700
On 7/6/2013 10:35 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> My faithful old Dell desktop runs Windows XP Version 2002 Service Pack 3, and 
> I use Outlook Express as my primary mail program.  It has been in this 
> configuration since the machine was new.
>
> For the last few days, when I turn on the computer and use the desktop icons 
> to start Outlook Express and Firefox, the Outlook Express block in the 
> Taskbar comes up ORANGE.  If I click on the block, to display the OE window, 
> it turns back to the normal blue color.  Everything else about the operation 
> seems to be the same as it has always been.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?  Have you found an explanation?
>

I can tell you what it means. It means OE thinks there's something it has for 
you that you need to switch to it to 
see/respond to. Not uncommon behavior for various apps.

For example, if I switch away from FileZilla while it is uploading some stuff 
to my web site, its taskbar item turns 
red/orange when it completes the transfer. Click on it, then away, and the 
notification/warning goes away.

> It just seems strange for the old software to change after all these years.

Are Windoze and/or OE on auto update? Are you clicking away from it while it's 
still downloading mail? Otherwise, it's 
hard to tell why it has started acting 'normal', but different. OTOH, it's not 
a problem, so you may ignore it.

Windowed Moose

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