Make sure when you install AVG that you disable the email scanning option.
See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3
steve
"Ron in France" <RoninFrance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your replies Mike and Steve. Checked VIEW - Current View and
> it
> has "show all messages" - but it doesn't!
> However, I have just found and solved the problem - in fact all the
> problems
> I had with Windows Mail(s). ... appear to have been caused by MacAfee
> Security Center and Virus Scan. I heard from someone else that MacAfee had
> caused them mail problems with Vista so thought I would try temporarily
> uninstalling all the macAfee products. On restarting the system and
> selecting
> Windows Mail, I saw the Windows Mail Logo Opening screen for the first
> time,
> then WM opened up as it should showed me all my folder contents and
> allowed
> me to send and receive!
> Wonderful!!
> I downloaded AVG and installed it to ensure I have AV protection, and I
> think I may just leave things like that and forget about MacAfee!
> Incidentally, when i ran Vista Upgrade advisor a month ago, it told me i
> wold have problems with MacAfee, so I contacted MacAfee and downloaded and
> installed the "necessary fixes for Vista". Dell's "Windows Vista Upgrade
> Assistant" checked out the "fixed" version and did not signal it as a
> potential problem, but clearly it is not yet trouble-free.
> Thanks again for your help
>
> Best regards
> Ron in France
>
>
> "Steve Cochran" wrote:
>
>> As mikey indicates go to View | Current View | show all messages.
>>
>> If that doesn't help, then your database is corrupt. You can try
>> compacting
>> and repairing it to fix it with my WMUtil program
>> (www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/) .
>> It may or may not help.
>>
>> If that doesn't help then the only solution is to wipe out the database.
>> First see here and make sure you don't have antivirus software set to
>> scan
>> email (www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Then go to Tools | Options |
>> Advanced
>> | Maintenance | Store Folder to find the message store location. Then
>> move
>> everything under that Windows Mail directory to another directory, so
>> that
>> the Windows Mail directory is completely empty. Then restart WinMail and
>> it
>> will open fresh with nothing
>> in the database. You can then add your accounts and if they work
>> correctly
>> then you can import messages from the directory to which you moved the
>> files
>> back into WinMail (see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm2wm).
>>
>> steve
>>
>>
>> "Ron in France" <RoninFrance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news
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>> > Hi - new boy here.
>> > Just upgraded to Vista from MCE using a Dell-delivered upgrade package.
>> > All
>> > seemed to work OK until I tried to access my mail - major problems:
>> > 1. All my old mail folder and sub-folder names appear down the left,
>> > and
>> > when I select Local Files, they are all shown as having zero unread,
>> > but
>> > what looks like the right number - sometimes several hundreds - of
>> > 'Totla'
>> > messages, but nothing appears when i try to click on them to open them.
>> > Even
>> > the Inbox, which shows a number unread in brackets) reveals nothing at
>> > all
>> > Just the French equivalent of "there is nothing to display". Now the
>> > odd
>> > thing is that, having tried going in and out several times, once - and
>> > only
>> > once - the inbox comntents sudenly appeared and I was able to opena nd
>> > read
>> > the mail. Then when I tried to drag and drop into mail folders or into
>> > the
>> > "Deleted Items" folder, I received the message (equivalent in French)
>> > "Windows mail. Action could not be completed - an error was produced"
>> > No
>> > error code! I have never been able to reproduce the situation and
>> > since, I
>> > just have a list of "empty" folders.
>> > 2. I can neither send nor receive mail. When I try to send, I receive
>> > the
>> > message (equivalent in French) "Windows Mail. The message was not
>> > sent -
>> > an
>> > error was produced" Again no error code!
>> > I have checked out POP3 account details etc and they have been
>> > transferred
>> > correctly from Outlook Express - I am at a loss to know where to go
>> > next.
>> > I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions. In the short term I
>> > ma
>> > having to access my mail via the ISP server like hotmail but hardly
>> > satisfactory for the longterm, so I must fix this quickly.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for ideas.
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> > Ron in France
>>