Hi greysts---thank you SO much for your speedy reply---WOW!! after reading your post I've lost all desire to delete Outlook Express. My problem is that when I'm viewing my msgs after about 3 emails I get the msg "sorry, this msg cannot be displayed" or something like that---I read online somewhere that Microsoft has done away w/o.e. so I just figured I'd take it off my computer. I have downloaded Live Mail & so far its ok---do you have a fix for OE6 ?? I tried numerous ones (suggestions I got off the search "fix outlook express 6"---and none of them has worked. Thanks again for any help.