Thanks, Moose. Yes, auto-update is enabled, at least until next April, when
it disappears. You have confirmed what I suspected. Another responder said
that he noted it following an update some 6 months ago. I guess I am just
slow in catching on.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Question About WinXP and Outlook Express
> 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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> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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