Are you in the send and receive dialog at the time? One of the controls is a progress bar. Try tabbing away from this bar, clicking "hide" to hide the dialog if you don't like it, and making sure your screen echo is set to highlighted. Grant -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of lilian.stubbs Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 11:47 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: question Please would some one tell me why when I am in outlook express my computer keeps saying progressbar? What does it mean? In anticipation Lilian. To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.