I'm not sure exactly what you are asking. If you want to make sure OE is not
hanging, as you call it, just click Send/Receive.

If OE is taking a long time to start, see this.

Performance Problems:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/performance.htm
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Howard Page-Clark" wrote in message
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Is there a way to configure OE6 (Win XP, SP2) to show its progress dialog
when it first starts and shows the "Working Online" message in the status
bar?
I would appreciate feedback and knowing that during a long wait the
program was not hanging.