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

Just press the Send/Receive button twice in succession.

SteveT

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

Thank you kindly.

But why twice, rather than just once as in OE?

DSH

"Steve Thackery" wrote in message
...

Just press the Send/Receive button twice in succession.

SteveT

But why twice, rather than just once as in OE?

Because lots of people found it to be a distracting nuisance. Now you've
got the choice of whether you see it or not.

SteveT

Cheers...

DSH
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"R. C. White" wrote in message
...

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.

How so? One can always click HIDE and close it quickly?

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. ;^}

Nope.

There is no "PUSHPIN" on this progress box in OE.

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

It can always just be moved out of the way -- OR hidden by clicking on HIDE.

Mucking about by changing simple protocol items such as this is
counterproductive.

Also, the addition of this "PUSHPIN" is unnecessary.

DSH

"Steve Thackery" wrote in message
...

But why twice, rather than just once as in OE?

Because lots of people found it to be a distracting nuisance. Now you've
got the choice of whether you see it or not.

SteveT

Recte:

Cheers...

DSH
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"R. C. White" wrote in message
...

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.

How so? One can always click HIDE and close it quickly.

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. ;^}

Nope.

There is no "PUSHPIN" on this progress box in OE.

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

Mucking about by changing simple protocol items such as this is
counterproductive.

Nope, I disagree. I think it's a very elegant solution. For most people
the Send/Receive is silent. For nerds like us who want to watch it, we just
click the button twice. Nothing could be simpler than that.

We will obviously continue to disagree about this :-)

SteveT

"Steve Thackery" wrote in message ...
Mucking about by changing simple protocol items such as this is
counterproductive.

Nope, I disagree. I think it's a very elegant solution. For most people
the Send/Receive is silent. For nerds like us who want to watch it, we just
click the button twice. Nothing could be simpler than that.

Concur. The nerd in me used to watch the gears turning, but as I've
gotten older, I just want it to work silently, without fanfare.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)