See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 What are you using for antivirus software?
What other programs are running at startup?
Search for *.eml and see if you can find the messages in that search.
steve
"Steven Lichtman" <Steven
Lichtman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:53E7DA3D-4075-4EFE-8321-6C6FD97CC196@microsoft.com...
> Just bought a brand-new Dell, with Vista. Imported old emails and email
> folders from Outlook Express 6; worked perfectly (messages appeared in an
> "Imported Folders" heading). I then successfully moved messages from this
> Imported Folder to my Local Folder (messages from the Inbox in the
> Imported
> Folder were moved to the Inbox in the Local Folder, e.g.). Everything
> worked
> fine.
>
> I then sent out a test email message, to myself. At first the message
> just
> sat in my Outbox and would not send, but after a few minutes it sent. It
> immediately showed up in my Inbox (Local Folder). Thinking everything was
> fine, I shut down the program.
>
> The next time I tried to start Windows Mail, however, it hung for a few
> moments, and I got a "Not responding" error in the title bar. I shut the
> program down, and tried to run it again. It's running, but ...
>
> ... I cannot see any email headers in any of my folders.
>
> When I click on "Local Folders", I get a detailed listing of how many
> messages are in each folder. But I cannot see any of them. And I cannot
> send or receive email anymore, either.