Just to let everyone know that, on a brand new Win XP installation
shipped with free McAfee with McAfee SpamKiller installed in Outlook
Express 6, on launching a new-message-compose window in OE6, the window
flashes momentarily then moves to the background, requiring you to
click on the taskbar button to bring it to the foreground.

Uninstalling SpamKiller fixed the problem.

But WARNING!!!!

McAfee's goddamned Uninstall Wizard dys-intuitively asks you to check
the boxes of the components you want to KEEP installed, not uninstall.
So natch, I SpamKiller, and the piece of crap then uninstalled
everything BUT SpamKiller.

***

wrote in message
ps.com...
Just to let everyone know that, on a brand new Win XP installation
shipped with free McAfee with McAfee SpamKiller installed in Outlook
Express 6, on launching a new-message-compose window in OE6, the window
flashes momentarily then moves to the background, requiring you to
click on the taskbar button to bring it to the foreground.

Uninstalling SpamKiller fixed the problem.

But WARNING!!!!

McAfee's goddamned Uninstall Wizard dys-intuitively asks you to check
the boxes of the components you want to KEEP installed, not uninstall.
So natch, I SpamKiller, and the piece of crap then uninstalled
everything BUT SpamKiller.

***


The way it says that is pretty well self explanatory but I have used
Spamkiller without those problems. I just find that though it works well, it
has a few oddities that get to me so I don't use it.

I would not have anything by McAfee or Norton on my computer. Both cause
nothing but trouble with Outlook Express.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

wrote in message
ps.com...
Just to let everyone know that, on a brand new Win XP installation
shipped with free McAfee with McAfee SpamKiller installed in Outlook
Express 6, on launching a new-message-compose window in OE6, the window
flashes momentarily then moves to the background, requiring you to
click on the taskbar button to bring it to the foreground.

Uninstalling SpamKiller fixed the problem.

But WARNING!!!!

McAfee's goddamned Uninstall Wizard dys-intuitively asks you to check
the boxes of the components you want to KEEP installed, not uninstall.
So natch, I SpamKiller, and the piece of crap then uninstalled
everything BUT SpamKiller.

***

Its nice to see they are continuing their 8 year tradition of screwing up
OE.

A turd remains a turd.

steve

wrote in message
ps.com...
Just to let everyone know that, on a brand new Win XP installation
shipped with free McAfee with McAfee SpamKiller installed in Outlook
Express 6, on launching a new-message-compose window in OE6, the window
flashes momentarily then moves to the background, requiring you to
click on the taskbar button to bring it to the foreground.

Uninstalling SpamKiller fixed the problem.

But WARNING!!!!

McAfee's goddamned Uninstall Wizard dys-intuitively asks you to check
the boxes of the components you want to KEEP installed, not uninstall.
So natch, I SpamKiller, and the piece of crap then uninstalled
everything BUT SpamKiller.

***

No probs here with Macafee. Never had a problem with many computers with
Outlook or OE excepting Spamkiller. If that wasn't an issue, nothing
interfered from them.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
I would not have anything by McAfee or Norton on my computer. Both cause
nothing but trouble with Outlook Express.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

wrote in message
ps.com...
Just to let everyone know that, on a brand new Win XP installation
shipped with free McAfee with McAfee SpamKiller installed in Outlook
Express 6, on launching a new-message-compose window in OE6, the window
flashes momentarily then moves to the background, requiring you to
click on the taskbar button to bring it to the foreground.

Uninstalling SpamKiller fixed the problem.

But WARNING!!!!

McAfee's goddamned Uninstall Wizard dys-intuitively asks you to check
the boxes of the components you want to KEEP installed, not uninstall.
So natch, I SpamKiller, and the piece of crap then uninstalled
everything BUT SpamKiller.

***

Sorry but they don't screw OE up.


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Its nice to see they are continuing their 8 year tradition of screwing up
OE.

A turd remains a turd.

steve

wrote in message
ps.com...
Just to let everyone know that, on a brand new Win XP installation
shipped with free McAfee with McAfee SpamKiller installed in Outlook
Express 6, on launching a new-message-compose window in OE6, the window
flashes momentarily then moves to the background, requiring you to
click on the taskbar button to bring it to the foreground.

Uninstalling SpamKiller fixed the problem.

But WARNING!!!!

McAfee's goddamned Uninstall Wizard dys-intuitively asks you to check
the boxes of the components you want to KEEP installed, not uninstall.
So natch, I SpamKiller, and the piece of crap then uninstalled
everything BUT SpamKiller.

***

They have been screwing OE up since 1997. I even got email from them back
then, and I told them I was telling people to turn off email scanning or
they'd lose there messages. They agreed. People still are losing their
messages everyday.

You do a disservice to others just because you have been lucky so far.

steve

MS-MVP
Windows OE / WinMail

"Diamontina Cocktail" wrote in message
...

Sorry but they don't screw OE up.


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Its nice to see they are continuing their 8 year tradition of screwing up
OE.

A turd remains a turd.

steve

wrote in message
ps.com...
Just to let everyone know that, on a brand new Win XP installation
shipped with free McAfee with McAfee SpamKiller installed in Outlook
Express 6, on launching a new-message-compose window in OE6, the window
flashes momentarily then moves to the background, requiring you to
click on the taskbar button to bring it to the foreground.

Uninstalling SpamKiller fixed the problem.

But WARNING!!!!

McAfee's goddamned Uninstall Wizard dys-intuitively asks you to check
the boxes of the components you want to KEEP installed, not uninstall.
So natch, I SpamKiller, and the piece of crap then uninstalled
everything BUT SpamKiller.

***

schreef in bericht
ps.com...
Just to let everyone know that, on a brand new Win XP installation
shipped with free McAfee with McAfee SpamKiller installed in Outlook
Express 6, on launching a new-message-compose window in OE6, the window
flashes momentarily then moves to the background, requiring you to
click on the taskbar button to bring it to the foreground.

Uninstalling SpamKiller fixed the problem.

But WARNING!!!!

McAfee's goddamned Uninstall Wizard dys-intuitively asks you to check
the boxes of the components you want to KEEP installed, not uninstall.
So natch, I SpamKiller, and the piece of crap then uninstalled
everything BUT SpamKiller.

***

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
They have been screwing OE up since 1997.

No, that is most definitely wrong. I have been using it longer than that and
so have many of my users and never a problem unless it was Spamkiller.

Spamkiller is good in what it does but unfortunately too complex for most
people and in its "out of the box" mode (eg, unaltered) really isn't set up
well enough to be worth the effort of installing. Mcafee seem blissfully
unaware of this. So, many people who don't want to change things or possibly
don't know what they are doing call it crap. The fact is that it is
unusually good but ONLY EVER if you change the thing around, adding your own
rules as needed etc.

I haven't used Spamkiller for over a year now simply because I have my own
domain name and have spam filtering there. I cant see any reason for
Spamkiller or any other third party anti spam on my computer, since.

"je weet wel" wrote in message
...


Uninstalling SpamKiller fixed the problem.

But WARNING!!!!

McAfee's goddamned Uninstall Wizard dys-intuitively asks you to check
the boxes of the components you want to KEEP installed, not uninstall.
So natch, I SpamKiller, and the piece of crap then uninstalled
everything BUT SpamKiller.

Actually, if the original poster of that comment just stopped to read the
uninstaller, it would have been obvious what it meant.