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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
 
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?
 
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

Diane Poremsky said:
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)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/





Joy said:
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
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I really don't think it's a virus. Is his user account the same level as
your user account? (i.e., power user, limited, admin etc)

Does he have rules set up to add the flag? If not knowingly, did he make a
new outlook profile and new pst?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/





Joy said:
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

Diane Poremsky said:
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)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/





Joy said:
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
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