Re: Mystery button!

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From: Stephen Bye (.)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:39:45 +0100

It stops the window from closing when the operation is complete.

"Steven Hickman" <ukdj78@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:208301c416f6$49abac90$3501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello people,
>
> I Don't know if I'm the only one who's noticed it, but
> there's something that's been bugging me for years and
> I've finally decided to find out about it once and for
> all!
>
> When you click on "Send/Recv" on the Toolbar, a window
> appears showing you the progress of any messages you are
> sending/receiving and any errors that have occured.
>
> In the bottom-right corner of this window is a strange
> button which looks like a pin. It is not labelled and
> nothing appears when you hover the mouse over it. When
> pressed it it changes into what I think is supposed to be
> a pressed in pin, but I think looks more like a lollipop!
> However it doesn't seem to serve any purpose.
>
> Does anybody out there know what it actually does? I've
> looked in the outlook express online help and on the
> microsoft website, but to no avail.

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