On Nov 9, 2:13 am, "PA Bear" wrote:
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Hi PA Bear, Yesterday I tried to send you an update but can't see it
here so had better repeat it just in case! I was able to induce the
'cannot display' condition as follows: An incoming email with small
picture tiled vertically down left side and enough text to produce a
smallish scroll bar on the right. Using the mouse scroll wheel, scroll
up/down madly for a while and then see if you can select another
email. I 'exited' the problem condition via End Process in Task
Manager. Repeated this several times and noted 'handles' number over
20,000 when 'cannot display' occurred.
Today I reformatted and reinstalled XP and so far OE6 has not put a
foot wrong. JackR

Is the machine currently fully patched at Windows Update?

Another fellow suffer did a wipe & reload, got the machine fully patched,
and encountered the same problem shortly thereafter.

NB: This does NOT necessarily mean that one or more updates is the cause of
the problem.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Adminhttp://aumha.net
DTS-Lhttp://dts-l.org/

Just got 4 more High Priority updates, incl IE7. THere might be one
more to
come, something about KB892130 on the summary screen. That makes
about 80 updates installed yesterday and today. Have to reboot so will
do so
and then check OE6 as best I can before replying to your query.
Did my 'inducing' exercise but could not get a result - can select
other folders and
emails without any 'cannot display' messges appearing. The number of
'handles' for msimn.exe remained constant at 266. JackR