Re: TECH (aargh) More new computer woes

Roger Mills scripsit:
> Has anyone else experienced this problem with MS-XP/OE6-- I suppose not, and
> am beginning to think my new computer may be a...gasp...lemon.
It's Outlook Express that's the lemon, by all reports.

> On more or less random occasions, when replying to an email, when I hit
> ENTER, an error msg pops up which causes OE to close, and my reply is lost.
> The error msg does have a "Notify MS" box, which I've done on occasions, but
> of course receive no reply.  There is also a box "explaining" the error, but
> that of course is gibberish to me.
If you can transcribe said gibberish, we may be able to help.  Miss not a
jot or a tittle, for they may mean your salvation.

> If I lived in a high-rise, this new box
> woulda been out the window long ago.
Windows: throw it out the window into the river, and it only sinks
*intermittently*.

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
"It's the old, old story.  Droid meets droid.  Droid becomes chameleon.
Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
again.  It's a classic tale." (Kryten, Red Dwarf)

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