Can't Delete Email in Outlook Express - Comments Page 7

Many thanks for the information, this helped me assist a close friend by email and with minumum hassle. The preview pane issue was the relevant one for us. Thanks!

I had an email with an attachment that I could not open, move or delete - it would just freeze my PC and my cursor would be inhibited until I stopped OE in the task manager window.

I put 2 of your suggestions together and it worked! The email message has been deleted. I disabled my anti-virus auto protect for a few moments, then went into my INBOX and highlighted the message, then did the SHIFT/DELETE and that did the trick! Thanks for your expertise!

A friend of mine is using Outlook Exprss 6.0. He has an older machine. When he deletes messages from his inbox and closes down Outlook the messages come back when he restarts Outlook. How do I get this to stop? He has message that are a couple of month old that keep coming back.

Don

Thanks for the advice - I got sorted by the deleting dbx files. Just a note - AutoCad uses this extension so at first it confused me but when I looked at the dates I soon found the correct folder

Can't delete file addresses.
I downloaded a large file(7,000 email addresses)
in Outlook which already had 100 files with 50 email addresses ea. Now I cannot delete anything. It allows me to delete names or files, but the name or file pops back up.How do I fix the delete function?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I'm a bit confused when you say you're trying to delete "files" while in Outlook. Do you mean individual emails, address book contacts, or something else?

i can not delete emails without opening it up and then delete.

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THANK YOU-THANK Y0U-THANK YOU. I had a problem with deleting attachments in the e-mail section and i read your articales and low and behold there was an answer that did work, God i love this site. one again Thank you. Shift/delete and they are gone.

I have mail in my inbox, when I try to delete it I end up with a line through it but it won't delete. Please advise. Thanks

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