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[Joy]

Does anyone know about this strange behaviour? I passed on a laptop to
another family member. MS office 2003 is installed on it. He rang me
asking if I'd had a problem with the behaviour described. I searched the
internet for this behaviour and looked hard at my own outlook settings but
no luck. Emails flagged in red flags jump up and down.
If it was still my pc, I'd be concerned as well.
Joy

 

[Joy]

The flags are attatched automatically it seems and always red. He said that
it's been that way since I fixed it. When I was using the laptop, he had
his own laptop and it died and then he was using mine as a user until I
handed my laptop to him for good. Outlook was behaving fine on my user and
in admin, but when he went to load it on his user, it said there was a
missing dll file, I forget which one, so I used the original disc to do a
repair and all seemed fine. Now that was a few weeks ago.

I think the best thing would be to reinstall it from scratch by the sound of
it, what do you think? Could it be a virus? He's bringing it home next
weekend for me, his mom to fix.
Joy

what happens if he uses another color? does it always happen or only after
another app ran or when the computer hasn't been rebooted?
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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Does anyone know about this strange behaviour? I passed on a laptop to
another family member. MS office 2003 is installed on it. He rang me
asking if I'd had a problem with the behaviour described. I searched the
internet for this behaviour and looked hard at my own outlook settings
but no luck. Emails flagged in red flags jump up and down.
If it was still my pc, I'd be concerned as well.
Joy

 

[Brian Tillman]

He's bringing it home next weekend for me, his mom to fix.

That's an unusual turn. Ususally the kids are more tech-savvy than the
parents.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Not in this family. <sigh>

Well, not in mine, either.