Outlook Express refreshes

[DingusQ]

I'm using Windows XP Pro SP 2. Outlook Express (ver.6.00.2900.2180) has an annoying tendency to refresh the email list of the inbox whenever I return to OE from another application. It's like a quick blink of the window and it only does it once, whenever I return to look at my email. This doesn't happen with any other program. It's kind of annoying. How do I get it to quit.?


DingusQ

 

[linney]

What happens if you change the Option (under Tools/Options/General) to NOT start in your Inbox?

Have you another user with an Outlook Express account you can check to see if that has the same annoyance?

 

[DingusQ]

I don't close OE after I check my email everytime. If I did, or if I closed the Inbox, I would expect that the email window would refresh when I opened it again. I leave OE open, it checks for email every ten minutes, and when I hear that ding-dong, I bring OE back up. Then after about 5 seconds I get that blink. It's no big deal. Just one of those little things that gets irritating after a while. I notice this in Windows Exlorere too. It's like anything with a list of folders has to refresh whenever I make it the active window.

DingusQ

 

[smah]

Are the mail accounts being used POP & SMTP only, or are there IMAP accounts as well (like hotmail or Exchange)?

 

[linney]

See if you can get any clues here from these semi-related articles.



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You can experiment with this (after backing up Registry).

You can make Windows Explorer constantly refresh and update its files and folder views. Go through the Registry through RegEdit, and navigate through the left-hand pane until you get to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/
CurrentControlSet/control/Update item. In the right-hand pane, click on UpdateMode and select Modify. In the Edit window, change 01 to 00. Exit everything and reboot for this to take effect.


You could also look at your Video driver and see if there is an update available.

 

[DingusQ]

In OE I have only POP3 accounts.

Something I've noticed with both OE and Windows Explorer, it's only open or expanded folders that refresh. So, in the left pane (of either OE or Explorer), if a folder is expanded to show sub-folders, only the sub folders refresh. If individual emails are listed (i.e., expanded) in the right pane of OE, they refresh. (I haven't noticed any activity in the right pane of Explorer). This happens whether the other computers in the network are turned on or off; it also happens whether I have checked "Automatically search for network folders and printers" in Explorer Tools/Folder Options/View or not. It only happens in applications that show lists of folders, sub-folders, and files.

DingusQ

 

[DingusQ]

I figured out an answer to this problem. I got a break when I noticed the list-flickering was gone after I disabled all startup programs. By selectively restoring them I was able to find the culprit: Intellipoint 6.01. If you search Google Groups by date on the words "Intellipoint problem" you'll find several people have made the same discovery.
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[linney]

Thanks for adding that feedback.