You can configure Windows to allow you to use any Email program of your choice. SgtGeorge At 01:14 PM 03/11/2001, walterboswell1 wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >Thanks for writing, Dawn. I too believe that Outlook Express has something >to do >with the issue. A friend of mine in South Africa, who also despises >Outlook >Express, sent me another mail program to use, but I couldn't get MS to >let me use it >as my default mail server. So, obviously, that didn't help matters much. >Of course I >may simply have not know what I was doing, which pretty much my excuse for >getting married the fifth time. > >At any rate, I appreciate your commetns. > >walt >[email protected] > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dawn Conner Jeppesen" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 4:47 AM >Subject: Re: [CFTW] A Lot of Thank Yous and A Few Responses > > > > Walt, > > > > I must say your personality towards your situation is amusing. It does > get > > frustrating at times. With so many programs, one has to play pick and > choose > > to find the actual problem. > > > > Recently our computer crashed bigtime. We lost all our information. > Thank > > goodness we had burned my tree! I really don't know what caused the > actual > > problem but, outlook express did have problems while running with other > > programs. We use chat programs so I may talk with my family in the US. > Of > > course we use internet explorer. There are many other program we run at > the > > same time. It was only when using outlook express together with other > > programs that our computer would freeze up. I believe it had something > to do > > with the configuration in the actual program. > > > > Since everything was completely deleted from our computer, we had to > start > > from scratch. There are no problems now. I do not suggest starting all > over. > > Possibly reconfiguring outlook express would solve the problem. There > are > > fixes for outlook express as well. > > > > This may or may not be the problem. This is only my personal > experience. I > > will include a link to outlook express, if you'd like to try it out. > > Dawn > > > > http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/welcome/outlook.asp > > > > Hope this helps. **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**********