[Corin Stormhands]

Hmmm....I just went to the icon on the bottom for Windows Messenger. This time it said "not signed in" and let me exit. But I don't have Outlook Express open.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well but if you open it again and go to Tool-options-preferences, you can keep it from starting up when you start up the machine, and disable the other stuff that is tied to outlook, like notification of messages, click all the tabs and select the option where it does the least.