Forgot to mention...this is IE 6 on WinXP Pro SP2.

Out of curiosity, I installed IE 7 beta on this (it's a test PC!) and the
problem persists.

Sir Timbit
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"Sir Timbit" wrote in message
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Hi there, I'm hoping someone else has experienced this and knows what the
problem is. I'm assuming the problem at this point is patch related, but I
have yet to find anything on the web about it.

Using Outlook Express, receive an email with some attachment, like an
Excel file for example. (You can send yourself an email attachment.) In
OE, click the paperclip so that it shows the file name of the attachment.
Click on the file name and you get the standard dialog box asking "Do you
want to open this file?" with either "Open" or "Cancel" as choices. Now
here's where it gets weird!

If you click Open or Cancel, everything is fine. HOWEVER, if you click
outside of this dialog box, the window starts flashing repeatedly. It's
like it loses focus between this and the main window. If I press
Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up task manager, quite often I'll find WINLOGIN
running at 100% CPU or thereabouts. If I wait a few moments, I can usually
switch back to OE and the window will have stopped flashing.

Initially I thought this was an issue with only Outlook Express. However
when I went to IE, it did the same thing. In IE, download a file. You get
the same box asking if you want to run or save the file. You can click
outside of this dialog box, and nothing will happen. But move that dialog
box to the right and you'll see the other window--the one that shows the
estimated time to transfer a file. With the other dialog box still open,
click on this second box, and you get the flashing window again. Or at
least I do, and lots more people at my workplace. As before, I can wait a
few moments, and then click on the main IE window to make it stop, or
press Ctrl-Alt-Del, then switch back to the main window, and it will have
stopped flashing.

I know it's a pretty obscure glitch, but I'm getting an increasing number
of people coming in mentioning it when they go to check their mail in
Outlook Express. It doesn't happen in Outlook, nor does it happen in other
programs' File dialog boxes.

Any ideas? I'm taking a test machine right to see if I can duplicate it
depending on the various patches installed.

Thanks,
Sir_timbit