Just noticed this thread. 9 instances IS weird! Robert, you say you're a programmer. You haven't been writing any VBA macros to automate Outlook have you? Any object variables being instantiated in "_Open" event handlers, etc? Greg Chapman http://www.mousetrax.com http://www.layer1wireless.com -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carneal, Robert Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 5:31 PM To: Neil Atwood Subject: [mso] Re: multiple versions of Outlook ---Copy--- Just to be clear Robert, every time you start Outlook, you can open Task= Manager and see nine instances running? If so, that's bizarre! ---End--- That is exactly correct. I am not a Microsoft engineer by any means, but I= have been trained in programming and repairs. I can think of nothing to= cause this, and nothing to do to stop it. It is freaky to me. If MS Word= and MS Excel were to do the same thing, I can think of a cause, but not= just Outlook alone. Norton says I am ok. Spybot says I am ok. Robert ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************