"Jim Phillips" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:39c7c86d$5_1@skycache-news.fidnet.com...
> We use Outlook Express for our email client (I know, I know, but it was
> cheap and easily available).  I occasionally receive advertising email
that
> has pictures and hot links in it.  Whenever I read these messages I am
> prompted over and over (once for each link) with the dial-up networking
> window (I guess OE wants me to connect to the Internet to download these
> pictures and other stuff).  My question is "How can I disable this
action?"
> That it, how can I have OE just show me the email without me clicking
twenty
> times on the cancel button of the dial-up networking window?
>
> BTW, I do use a dial-up connection for the Internet, and OE does show me
the
> email sans all the pretty pictures and stuff once I go through the
> cancel-button exercise.
>
I think it's an option in Control Panel/Internet Options/Connection. Of
course changing this may mean that other things (IE for instance) don't work
the way you wish them to :(

HTH

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Mark Undrill
Affirm Limited