MSIMN fails in a way never seen before . . .
1.  Under Win98SE on 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 with
512 Mb RAM, Win98 as stripped and simplified
and as fast as I can make it go:
2.  Connected via Ethernet (wireless Internet)
with Mozilla Firefox as browser and Outlook
Express for mail and newsgroups:  so that OE
may be loaded (1) from Start button, (2) called
from Firefox or (3) called from Mailwasher
mail filter.

All of a sudden Outlook Express just fails to
load completely i.e. hangs part way and must be
unloaded by Ctl Alt Del.   The novel reference to
"OutlookExpressHiddenWindow" appeared in a message
box on /Shutdown / Reboot.

Everything in C:/Program Files/Outlook Express
appears identical to the backup clone of C: except
only for a couple of extra DLLs (don't know why:
dates seem not suspicious.)  MS KB found 6 hits
for "hidden window" in OE.version 6, none for Win98,
none seeming likely.

Has anyone encountered this before?  I have not in
a decade's use of OE.   Advice?   I could abandon
OE and use Thunderbird instead but have tried both
and still prefer OE.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs