Hi, DSH.

Once you get the progress window opened (as the others said, or double-click
the "anemic little textual message" in the lower right corner, the right end
of the Status Bar; you DO have the Status Bar turned on, don't you?), click
the Pushpin in the lower right corner of that progress window. This will
keep that window open until you dismiss it in some way, such as by clicking
Hide or the red-corner X or just by clicking on the Reading Pane or other
location to move Windows' focus to that window.

Depending on how YOU use OE/WM/WLM, this little window can be a blessing or
an irritation - or both at different times.

This behavior is the same in OE, in WM and in WLM. But you may have set the
pushpin in OE so long ago that you have forgotten that you ever did it.
Like I did. ;^}

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
The Connection Box which showed progress in the downloading and
transmission of files, with Hide, Stop and Details Buttons...

It was a very useful progress indicator in OE -- as well as a handy switch
to turn downloading, or transmission off ---- quickly

WLM seems to have only an anemic little textual message in the lower right
corner...

Or am I missing something?

DSH