I am using Outlook Express (6.0, SP1) as my news agent on a machine running Windows XP 64bit OS (2003 SP1). It regularly crashes during synchronization with the news.microsoft.com server. Generally when I click on the synchronize button after first starting OE, it will crash when it gets to polling for watched messages. I will send an error report and restart the program, synchronize again, and it will crash, again. I will send an error message, restart the program, and it will crash or run. The experience has been that after two or three crashes, it will run. I don't know if the problem is the OS or something else. When running on WinXP Pro I didn't have the problem, though, so the OS is my first guess. Thoughts or suggestions? TIA Charles Kenyon