Hi,

I have just started experiencing an issue when I first open up my Outlook
Express. Normally, I would click on the OE Icon on my desktop and it would
prompt me fora password and then prompt me for another password as I have
additional security enabled. Once I entered the second passwork the Inbox
would open and a "Send/Receive" box would come up which showed that the
system was retreiving / downloading mail and how many messages it was
retrieving.

All of a sudden now - I go through the same routine but the "Send/Receive"
box never comes up. It seems as though it gets by-passed and then all of a
sudden the messages appear in my inbox. I know this appears to be minor, but
I like to see how many messages are being downloaded before thaey hot the
inbox especially because of size, etc. Does anyone have any idea as to what
happened and how I can get that "Sernd/Receive" box back when I first sign on
to OE? I will tell you that once I;m in the Inbox and I manually click on the
"send/Receive" box on the OE toolbar, it does function properly.

I should also mention that this only started ocuring about 3 days ago, when
my computer prompted me that new downloads were available for my computer and
I did go ahead and download them. I'm guessing it might be related.. I have
Windows XP Professional. Thanks in advnace for your help.