well what I had to do was go in to sound and audio devices and play all the places he installed besides outlook express and silence him. He was working through different areas of sound like close program and etc so I went through those and made sure he is just announcing the new mail coming in. Not sure how I made him apply other places I've added it to my list of solved mysteries without the know how of it. Pen ++++++++++ Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Oddity > This is confusing. Is there a guy doing this, or is it the program he > sent you acting in absentia? > > tactilelady wrote: > > >Before I ask about my oddity I want to thank Ed West for solving my problem with opening Hyperlinks and thank all of you that took so much time to help me. > >This is the new quirk with Pens puter a friend sent me a wav file with aol's you've got mail in it which I'm using for my e-mail. The problem is this this guy says I got mail when there is no mail coming in but worse still he tells me when I'm not even on line. Any idea how to teach him to say you got mail when I rreally have got mail? > >Pen Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.