Does anyone else get this strange behaviour?

One of our users reported this 'problem' on his XP system (SP2, fully
patched with all current updates. OE6 version 6.00.2900.2180.)

- Open an email with an Excel file attachment.
- When the wrning popup appears (assuming this is enabled) and you are asked
'Do you want to open this file?', ignore it and click back on the email
window behind.
- The popup window starts flashing rapidly and you hear what appear to be
random tapping and buzzing sounds. This continues for a variable length of
time and then the system returns to normal.

No error messages or after effects, just this weird behaviour. It happens on
all the XP machines we have tested here but I can't find any reference to it
on the web.

This is obviously not an urgent issue as the actions performed are
unnecessary and easily avoided, but I am interested to see if anyone else
gets the same effect.

I tried that. I had to restart Windows to get things working properly
again.

Obviously it's a programming bug. What's supposed to happen if you
click back to the main window is you get an alert beep and the open
dialog gets control back. Instead it's going into a loop of beep return
control to the dialog, then back to the main window and start all over
again.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Neil B" <neilb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97FB5146-FE08-4DCF-9501-D0ABB3FD45C5@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone else get this strange behaviour?
>
> One of our users reported this 'problem' on his XP system (SP2, fully
> patched with all current updates. OE6 version 6.00.2900.2180.)
>
> - Open an email with an Excel file attachment.
> - When the wrning popup appears (assuming this is enabled) and you are
> asked
> 'Do you want to open this file?', ignore it and click back on the
> email
> window behind.
> - The popup window starts flashing rapidly and you hear what appear to
> be
> random tapping and buzzing sounds. This continues for a variable
> length of
> time and then the system returns to normal.
>
> No error messages or after effects, just this weird behaviour. It
> happens on
> all the XP machines we have tested here but I can't find any reference
> to it
> on the web.
>
> This is obviously not an urgent issue as the actions performed are
> unnecessary and easily avoided, but I am interested to see if anyone
> else
> gets the same effect.

Thanks for confirming that! Nice to know that it isn't just our systems here.

Sorry it crashed your PC though. Hope it's better now.

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

> I tried that. I had to restart Windows to get things working properly
> again.
>
> Obviously it's a programming bug. What's supposed to happen if you
> click back to the main window is you get an alert beep and the open
> dialog gets control back. Instead it's going into a loop of beep return
> control to the dialog, then back to the main window and start all over
> again.
>
> --
>
> Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
>
>
> "Neil B" <neilb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:97FB5146-FE08-4DCF-9501-D0ABB3FD45C5@microsoft.com...
> > Does anyone else get this strange behaviour?
> >
> > One of our users reported this 'problem' on his XP system (SP2, fully
> > patched with all current updates. OE6 version 6.00.2900.2180.)
> >
> > - Open an email with an Excel file attachment.
> > - When the wrning popup appears (assuming this is enabled) and you are
> > asked
> > 'Do you want to open this file?', ignore it and click back on the
> > email
> > window behind.
> > - The popup window starts flashing rapidly and you hear what appear to
> > be
> > random tapping and buzzing sounds. This continues for a variable
> > length of
> > time and then the system returns to normal.
> >
> > No error messages or after effects, just this weird behaviour. It
> > happens on
> > all the XP machines we have tested here but I can't find any reference
> > to it
> > on the web.
> >
> > This is obviously not an urgent issue as the actions performed are
> > unnecessary and easily avoided, but I am interested to see if anyone
> > else
> > gets the same effect.
>
>
>