Strange thing noticed in Microsoft Outlook Newsreader.

[Travis King]

I just discovered a strange thing in the Outlook Newsreader. When I view a
post from a newsgroup, in the preview pane, if I right click VERY VERY FAST
several times (VERY RAPIDLY) while moving my mouse around, Internet Explorer
will open and will launch the MSN web page! I've done this repeated times
to see if it still happens, and it does. The right click menu shows Copy,
Save Picture As, Save Background As, and Select All. Select all is the only
option available. There are no links. It will even do it in a blank
preview pane. I've never seen something so strange before. Any ideas? Is
it a glitch? The mouse is a Logitech MX510. Actually, I just found out
that you don't even have to do it rapidly, just right click a couple of
times, and IE will open and MSN's website will launch. Even more different,
Firefox is my default web browser. Sometimes it only take a couple of right
clicks to launch IE, and other times it takes a lot.

 

[Leythos]

I just discovered a strange thing in the Outlook Newsreader. When I view a
post from a newsgroup, in the preview pane, if I right click VERY VERY FAST
several times (VERY RAPIDLY) while moving my mouse around, Internet Explorer
will open and will launch the MSN web page! I've done this repeated times
to see if it still happens, and it does. The right click menu shows Copy,
Save Picture As, Save Background As, and Select All. Select all is the only
option available. There are no links. It will even do it in a blank
preview pane. I've never seen something so strange before. Any ideas? Is
it a glitch? The mouse is a Logitech MX510. Actually, I just found out
that you don't even have to do it rapidly, just right click a couple of
times, and IE will open and MSN's website will launch. Even more different,
Firefox is my default web browser. Sometimes it only take a couple of right
clicks to launch IE, and other times it takes a lot.

Stop using an email client to read usenet, get a free Usenet client and
you won't have funny thing happening.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I just discovered a strange thing in the Outlook Newsreader. When
I view a post from a newsgroup, in the preview pane, if I right
click VERY VERY FAST several times (VERY RAPIDLY) while moving my
mouse around, Internet Explorer will open and will launch the MSN
web page! I've done this repeated times to see if it still
happens, and it does. The right click menu shows Copy, Save
Picture As, Save Background As, and Select All. Select all is the
only option available. There are no links. It will even do it in
a blank preview pane. I've never seen something so strange before.
Any ideas? Is it a glitch? The mouse is a Logitech MX510. Actually, I
just found out that you don't even have to do it
rapidly, just right click a couple of times, and IE will open and
MSN's website will launch. Even more different, Firefox is my
default web browser. Sometimes it only take a couple of right
clicks to launch IE, and other times it takes a lot.

Unique to you, it seems.

 

[Travis King]

I just discovered a strange thing in the Outlook Newsreader. When I view a
post from a newsgroup, in the preview pane, if I right click VERY VERY FAST
several times (VERY RAPIDLY) while moving my mouse around, Internet
Explorer will open and will launch the MSN web page! I've done this
repeated times to see if it still happens, and it does. The right click
menu shows Copy, Save Picture As, Save Background As, and Select All.
Select all is the only option available. There are no links. It will even
do it in a blank preview pane. I've never seen something so strange
before. Any ideas? Is it a glitch? The mouse is a Logitech MX510.
Actually, I just found out that you don't even have to do it rapidly, just
right click a couple of times, and IE will open and MSN's website will
launch. Even more different, Firefox is my default web browser. Sometimes
it only take a couple of right clicks to launch IE, and other times it
takes a lot.

I just found out that it will do it in Outlook too. Maybe it's an Office
related problem. I have Office XP. I'll probably go ahead and post this
problem on the office NG as well.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I just found out that it will do it in Outlook too. Maybe it's an
Office related problem. I have Office XP. I'll probably go ahead
and post this problem on the office NG as well.

I have no answer to you, but it's certainly not generally true that this
happens in either Outlook 2003 or Outlook Express. Neither works as you
describe here.

 

[Gordon]

Stop using an email client to read usenet, get a free Usenet client
and you won't have funny thing happening.

Umm Outlook Newsreader is actually Outlook Express in Newsreader only mode.
(Whether you consider Outlook Express to actually be a newsreader or not, is
another matter!)

 

[Travis King]

Unique to you, it seems.

My luck...

 

[Leythos]

Umm Outlook Newsreader is actually Outlook Express in Newsreader only mode.
(Whether you consider Outlook Express to actually be a newsreader or not, is
another matter!)

Yep, I started using Usenet in 84, and have always considered OE to be a
plague on Usenet.

 

[PA Bear]

Patient (demonstrating): Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Doctor: Don't do that.

 

[Richard Urban]

Are you afflicted with a severe nervous disorder, or do you just like to try
to screw things up (-:

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Ron Sommer]

I have no answer to you, but it's certainly not generally true that this
happens in either Outlook 2003 or Outlook Express. Neither works as you
describe here.

It would be interesting to know if a regular mouse would do the same thing.