Hi! On my C6 box, in the last few weeks I keep finding a package manager icon in the top panel, over on the right near the sound/network/etc icons. when I click on it it offers me "messages". If I choose to go see them, it opens an empty window. every time. without fail. its got some regularity, I see it several times a week. haven't been keeping track enough to know if it's daily, or the same time daily, or whatever its schedule is. Suggestions welcome. thanks! Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------