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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 |
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