Did you talk to people at Dell about this? This is not a general problem
with Media Center PCs, so it may be peculiar to the machines Dell supplies.
I really don't know, if its not an antivirus or some other program running
in the background doing it.

Try Message | New Message Using and then choose one of the stationery
selections. Then click in the message window. Do you get the formatting
bar then?

steve

"RoarAKB" wrote in message
...
Thanks for Your reply!
I have tried to disable all non-microsoft processes , even my antivirus
software. Still the formatting toolbar doesen't show up. One of the pc's
use
Norton internet security, the other three use McCafee. I also know of a
fifth
pc with Windows xp home media center with the same bug. Does anyone have a
pc
with xp media center and a outlook express application with a formatting
toolbar that show up. Thank You!
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Roar A. B.
Telemark
Norway


"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Do you have antivirus software running or any antispam software that
could
be interfering with OE? see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 Try going to
Start | Run and type msconfig and disable all startup items and non-MS
services. Then reboot. See if you get the toolbar then.

steve

"RoarAKB" wrote in message
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Before christmas 2006 I bought 4 computers with Windows xp media center
edition from Dell. They all have the same bug in outlook express. The
format
toolbar (my computers are delivered with norwegian language. The
toolbar I
have in mind are for formatting the text you write in a new mail like
bold
italic colors and so on.) I have checked it under the "show" menu and
I
have
chosen html under the "format" menu. It doesn't show on any of the four
computers. I have read a bugfix article on the insideoe.com, related to
fix
toolbar problems. I tried to follow the instructions there without any
result. I also can't imagine there is a identeties problem on all our
four
dell computers. Does anyone have an idea what might be the problem?
Thank
you!
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Roar A. B.
Telemark
Norway