yes, but I shut it completely off to make sure that this wasn't what was
interfering with OE and there was no change whatsoever in the OE function.

"PA Bear" wrote:

Are you running Norton Internet Security or Personal Firewall?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

donna wrote:
I just downloaded the latest Windows XP Updates and have SP2 on this
system. However, when I rebooted, I can no longer send or receive msgs in
OE6. I can open the program OK & can also surf the Internet with IE. I
don't receive any error messages but sometimes have trouble shutting OE
down. I also tried turning off my anti-virus program, but this didn't
help. Could there be a problem with a Windows Update that is causing this
to happen?