Re: New mail messages not opening in the foreground

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From: Brian Tillman (tillman1952_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/10/05


Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:01:35 -0500

Chris <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have a user who's stating that after recovering from an XP Blue
> Screen (BSD), mail messages double-clicked in Outlook 2k3 are
> opening behind Outlook(and any other apps) instead of in the
> foreground as usual. Office wasn't service packed, so I had him do
> that and a reboot to no avail. I'm not sure what the BSD was about,
> but he claims that a couple of reboots brought XP back. He doesn't
> seem to be expereincing any other difficulties. Also, it appears he
> only upgraded Outlook to 2K3 and is still running the XP ver of the
> otherOffice apps... Everything was functioning normally before the
> crash. Thoughts?

Try installing the latest version of the display driver.

-- 
Brian Tillman


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