The 'fix' for outlook express: General knowledge among a number of my cyber-savy friends with similar experiences to yours, is that Outlook Express is a particularly bad piece of work. It is also the target program and the back door entry for most viri beamed at MSFT. If anything will fail it will be OE, and it will drag the rest of the system down with it. It's companion IE isn't much better, and it's also a common virus target. It's considered to be a very unsafe web browser. If you want to avoid crashes and infections don't use OE or IE, they're just too 'fragile' for reliable use. There are better alternatives. Mike Peltier At 11:47 11/03/01 +0100, you wrote: >Recently our computer crashed bigtime. We lost all our information. . 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. >Possibly reconfiguring outlook express would solve the problem. There are >fixes for outlook express as well. > >Dawn >

I think that all this talk about how awful Internet Explorer and Outlook Express are is diverting Walter from finding his real problem. Internet Explorer and Outlook Express may have security holes which you could drive a bus through but they are stable. In all the years I have used Internet Explorer and Outlook Express I have never had a crash while running them. I have had crashes with early versions of Eudora and Netscape. So those of you who belong to the "I Hate Microsoft Club" please stop confusing the issue for Walter he has enough problems already. Ian Westergaard In Sunny & Cool Central Otago New Zealand