OK nobody noticed, but this is a serious question ! my OE6 ties itself up 'searching for hyperlinks' ; should it ? ; why does it ? ; i have not seen this occur before. help jo this humungeous file gave my poor little puter constipation !! it kept on straining, and i kept worrying and got my knickers in a right old KNOT. When i finally got it undone and divested, there on the bottom of the screen [the 'status bar ?] it said 'searching for hyperlinks 22% done' - i'm pretty sure i have never seen this before ! should i be worried ? AV check was clean. cheers jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hopefully someone can answer this for you - sounds odd to me. Have you installed any new software that might do that? I know I put on a new program, and it had some different e-mail scanning options. I decided to let it scan my e-mail for viruses since my norton can't - but that was all I picked. when strange things happen like that to me, I go on line and run Panda on line - or trend. Just in case a virus came in and disabled my system anti-virus software. I also run my spybot or adaware to be sure no spyware is on there searching for things. when they come up clean - then I ususally Panic big time!!!! CrisS 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/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk 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/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk