Well, you're never going to have a machine that runs correctly without being
updated. I see you haven't even got to SP2. I would crosspost to the XP &
Update newsgroups for better help with this problem. When you are fully
updated, post back here if you still have OE issues.

XP General Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...dowsxp.general

Windows Update Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....windowsupdate
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"George W. Barrowcliff" wrote in message
...
I am in fact posting from this machine. I did the update route a month ago
or so and the 6 updates downloaded and the first one applied but the
others
simply will not apply.
When my system slows down, I can check the task manager and there is a
process "Windows XP - KB835732-x86-enu.exe" running. I have to kill it to
keep going.
I have tried over and over to get these updates to apply with the same
result. I have poured over the MS XP sites trying to find a solution. I
would dearly like to get these applied and get off this problem but cannot
seem to find an answer.
If you have a silver bullet, I would be very grateful for its use to
either delete these downloads and start over or whatever it takes.

Thanks for noticing, George


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
George. Are you posting from the problem machine? From your headers, it
would appear that you haven't been to Windows Updates since you got the
machine. What OS are you supposedly using?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"George W. Barrowcliff" wrote in message
...
What else can cause photos embedded in email to be blocked besides
Tools-Options-Security-"Do not attachments to be saved or opened
....."???

TIA