On 7/6/2013 10:35 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> My faithful old Dell desktop runs Windows XP Version 2002 Service Pack 3, and
> I use Outlook Express as my primary mail program. It has been in this
> configuration since the machine was new.
>
> For the last few days, when I turn on the computer and use the desktop icons
> to start Outlook Express and Firefox, the Outlook Express block in the
> Taskbar comes up ORANGE. If I click on the block, to display the OE window,
> it turns back to the normal blue color. Everything else about the operation
> seems to be the same as it has always been.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this? Have you found an explanation?
>
I can tell you what it means. It means OE thinks there's something it has for
you that you need to switch to it to
see/respond to. Not uncommon behavior for various apps.
For example, if I switch away from FileZilla while it is uploading some stuff
to my web site, its taskbar item turns
red/orange when it completes the transfer. Click on it, then away, and the
notification/warning goes away.
> It just seems strange for the old software to change after all these years.
Are Windoze and/or OE on auto update? Are you clicking away from it while it's
still downloading mail? Otherwise, it's
hard to tell why it has started acting 'normal', but different. OTOH, it's not
a problem, so you may ignore it.
Windowed Moose
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