Vista - unwanted messages

hi there,

cannot delete unwanted messages from my mail inbox. please help.

"artan" <artan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hi there,
>
> cannot delete unwanted messages from my mail inbox. please help.

Email scanning should be turned off in any anti-virus. It provides no
protection not provided by the regular resident protection. Beside that,
McAfee and Norton are not compatible with Windows Mail.

If you are not willing to just ignore them, the only way is to delete both
copies of the database (which does not contain the messages, but only
references to them) and let WinMail rebuild it.
First close WinMail, then use Task Manager to make sure there are no
instances of it under applications or processes.
Then click Start | Search | Advanced Search
Check the box to include non-indexed, hidden and system files.
In the Name field type WindowsMail.MSMessageStore and click the Search
button.
It should show you two copies. Delete both of them and re-open WinMail.
Note: some people report not being able to recover messages after doing
this.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM shared these words of wisdom

> Email scanning should be turned off in any anti-virus. It provides
no
> protection not provided by the regular resident protection. Beside
> that, McAfee and Norton are not compatible with Windows Mail.

The latter is not true for the latest version of Norton.

I'm using it (mail scanning enabled) and no problems so far.

Rainald

"Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM shared these words of wisdom
>
>> Email scanning should be turned off in any anti-virus. It provides
> no
>> protection not provided by the regular resident protection. Beside
>> that, McAfee and Norton are not compatible with Windows Mail.
>
> The latter is not true for the latest version of Norton.
>
> I'm using it (mail scanning enabled) and no problems so far.


So far!

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com