Thanks Bruce,

Looks as though my virgin server must be playing up again. The message has
not appeared in OE and is not responding to 'get next headers'.

I already went through a lot of hassle when virgin's server for Usenet
seemed to be very selective about what it would accept and download. Looks
like I may have to start over again! I already have two lots of microsoft
public groups in my file tree...

Grr!

Cheers,

S


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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You got a reply in the IE6 group from PA Bear 21 hours ago. Please follow
up there.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"spamlet" wrote in message
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[No takers under IE6 group]

Experiencing hold ups and shut down hangs when IE is opened from within
OE
or O.

In Outlook the result is that a version of IE remains in programmes in
Process Explorer after it has been supposedly shut down - presumably
shutting the version that opens as a service from within O leaves the
other
one incompletely shut down. This is accompanied by a 'closing programme
autocomplete' message that prevents shutdown, when O has been used as the
mail handler.

When OE is used as the mail handler IE still opens as a service, rather
than
the programme itself, from links in mails. The 'service IE' tends to
search
for ages, or even hang over the links. However, if the programme IE
itself
is opened first, they go through OK - though the service version still
runs.

I have noted the mail on a similar topic below, and had a look at the
files/open with.
In our case (XP Pro) the URL file type was set to open with "Shell Doc
Object & Control Library" (?)
However, resetting this to IE still opens it as a service and it still
takes
ages.

What is going on?

Cheers,

S