You only thought you could stop OE from opening the first email in your inbox. What he means with the following is in the background, virtually, without the message "physically" i.e. visually opening in a new window It looks to me, Georgi, that you read quite a bit into what your "guru" actually said. But take heart and calm down my unnecessarily angry little friend, in the grand scheme of things none of this is very important. Now what is important in the grand scheme is whether I steal time from my employer even with important deadlines to be met, which I don't do. If I did I really would be a poor helpless little idiot, don't you think? George ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ My darkness inside is full of stars - and each one has a name. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ekhart GEORGI (last name last)" <Ekhart.GEORGI@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 7:57 AM Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Preview pane and the dangerous world of Microsoft and dishonest business people > My Outlook Express doesn't automatically open the first e-mail in my inbox. > I turned that off so long ago I don't even remember how I did it. Please try to remember and let me know how you did that trick. I stopped using OE ages ago, but i like to stay informed about it to help all the poor people who still use it. And since the guru on http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/vir100501.html: doesn't know about it, i'm afraid your setting doesn't help. You only thought you could stop OE from opening the first email in your inbox. What he means with the following is in the background, virtually, without the message "physically" i.e. visually opening in a new window (which is what you may have been able to find a setting for -- Microsoft's approach to run any script or other command thrown at it in IE and OE and elsewhere and to have all services enabled by default is not something you can turn off easily; it's the company philosophy): > Even with the automatic preview turned off, even if you never view > messages in the preview pane, Outlook Express automatically opens the > first message that arrives in an empty Inbox. And don't worry about being overly cautious or downright paranoid. Heck, you're about as happy-go-lucky, reckless, and downright "carefree" as they come: remember you're using LookOUT Express despite knowing how dangerous it is and despite being told about all the other safe email programs available. Ekhart 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 Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied. 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 Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.