When I open up OE and it starts to check for messages I get the following
message in a box with the header Msimn: this program has performed an
illegal operation and will be shut down. under details it is an invalid page
fault in module directdb.dll.  I am able to briefly send and ...

I use Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6.
Sometimes when I reply to a post in these forums my reply does not show,
but I know that it has been received in the forum because of references
made to it by other posters.  Using 'Test' will not assist me in these

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:

So Verizon DSL is getting cheap and it's clear IMO that my current ISP
(erols/rcn/starpower in Baltimore) is never going to have highspeed.
Verizon sent me the kit and started billing me yesterday**, but not
until I was on the last page of the Quick Start instructions and

When I click on Outlook Express all I get is a half screen white box with
nothing in the upper "tool box" area but a Microsoft logo.
How do I get Outlook Express to work?

Hi, have not posted for a long while now.
With ref our win98 PC (the host for our wireless network) (I am sending this
from our XP pc [the client].
We can no longer receive or send e-mails from our win98 pc, although we are

Hi, my daughter "E" (31) has recently signed up to virgin media and has a
ntlworld e-mail address, up until now (2/3 months) she has been accessing
her e-mail via her virgin home page in IE. The other day she tried to
install messenger or some other "chat" program and it has ...