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To: E who wrote (20974)	6/24/2001 6:03:33 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

hi e re, "About deleting junk mail w/o opening it. I saw your note on that earlier, and am trying it, but I have a question about it. You know how when an incoming em is highlighted in the inbox, and you haven't double clicked to officially open it up but it does show anyway in the narrow window at the bottom? Is that "open," and thus sending the 'live email address' message?" i assume you are talking about messenger? yes, highlighting it as you have described is opening it. you've told the spammer you are home when you've done that. "The thing is, as soon as you right click on it to try to delete it w/o opening it, it does show some of the text at the bottom." ah, you are so very correct. and i will show you how to get around that so that the mail remains unopened. try this .... see that little bumpy horizontal bar on the separator between the top and bottom panes? if you run your mouse arrow over it, it turns light blue? 1. click on it and the two right-side panes become one. (it's a toggle... if you click it again the two panes reappear.) but for this, make the right side one pane. 2. go back to the suspected spam header and right-click on it. 3. select 'delete message' from the menu 4. the spam is tossed unopened into your trash folder (you can let it reside there as long as you like, until you wish to empty the trash folder, then...) 5. re-click on the bumpy horizontal bar to bring back your preview pane 6. to empty trash, click on 'file' on top left menu, then 'empty trash on local mail'. tell me if it works :) mark

To: E who wrote (20974)	6/24/2001 6:09:01 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110652

e re, "No WAY am I going to do that! Geez, mark, you know it would be a disaster" well, i don't. but if you're so certain, perhaps it's best not to proceed. <g3> i have confidence in you, e. you've learned a lot here that i can see. :) mark

To: E who wrote (20974)	6/24/2001 8:03:35 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

E If the steps mark posted for you in #reply-15988048 don't solve your problem why not try the "return to previous version" choice on the repair tool and then download and install a fresh copy of either 5.01 or 5.5. The repair tool being greyed out is not unusual. That choice was disabled on newly installed versions of IE beginning with some IE5.XXX versions. It is still available to people that have upgraded their browsers from older versions. You don't have to worry about System File Checker with WINME. It's not available. If you haven't had this problem for too long using system restore may bail you out of trouble. Here a link to a smartcomputing article about using system restore. smartcomputing.com If I read you correctly, that box at the bottom of outlook express is the preview pane. You should disable it by going to View/Layout and unchecking the "show preview pane" box.