I Pctechtalg gang ! I'm in trouble with my OUTLOOK EXPRESS who after having downloaded a couple of mail stop and open a gray box with the following message appearing: Msimn has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down .And with the following details: MSIMN caused an invalid page fault in module DIRECTDB.DLL at 0167:01436bb1. Registers: EAX=837a7000 CS=0167 EIP=01436bb1 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=016ac5b8 SS=016f ESP=016ac598 EBP=016ac5cc ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=0145a558 FS=5117 EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 83 78 60 00 75 07 8b ce e8 d9 e4 ff ff ff 76 0c Stack dump: 0145a558 004acfa8 01438f04 0145a558 016ac5b8 01560f30 00001000 00000000 00000164 0145a558 00000200 00000e00 800c0131 016ad60c 01439dd8 a1bade0c ====== First: I noted that the OE icon on the desktop disapeared... I dont know if this as any signifacation.... Second: as I have 8, POP3 accounts taken in charge by my OE , I try to download all those acc one by one and it was exactly the same thing Than trying to download all, after a couple of mail downloaded the small gray box appeared to close OE. Third: I then deleted OE-6 in order to have OE-5 reinstalled, this was done OK. Fourth I try again my 8 acc for downloading one by one with exactly the same result.... Fith; I , all the time, have been able to SEND messages using any of my 8 acc Is there any solution I can try ????? ----- For your info I'm using 98-SE with all the updates including the one of last week I have desinstalled GRISOFT a/v without any change and I'm always running ANTIVIR GUARD and the last free version of ZONE ALARM --------- IMPORTANT NOTE: In order I can read all your answers I'l ask you to send me a COPY of all your answer to: BIGMARC@xxxxxxxxx who I can read cause I'm using https://www.0spam.com/login.shtml on this acc (by chance) Thank you all for your kindness.... BIGMARC -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/