Perhaps you could set them up with Firefox and Thunderbird and see if they work better! IE & OE are very buggy. Too many patches on patches, etc. Also, FF
does NOT use Active X. That alone is a good reason to switch!
I set up an Outlook Express e-mail account for a friend whose OS is win-xp-he. The IE/Outlook Express is ver 6.0. After correctly setting up the pop3 mail account, I tried to send an e-mail. I received the following Error Message: ''This message has not completed downloading. It cannot be saved until download is complete. There had been nothing downloaded on this PC for many days. I thought there might be Spyware or Adware issues, so I ran both Spysweaper and Adaware. Although there were spyware and adware files, they were removed successfully. I rebooted and tried to send/receive e-mail again. I got the same error message. This one really has me stumped. I have never seen this weird error before. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ray Savage

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