Hi,
My son has no Outlook Express account on our shared computer but on his account log on screen password protected he has a message along side his picture tile stating he has 5...gone up today to 6 unread messages. This has been on for some time and I'd like to get rid of it as its annoying the hell outta me!

He uses WindowsLive Messenger a lot for instant messaging and has no clue where this inbox is pointing to read the unread.

Any Ideas? I have backed up a folder called contacts from his name docs and setting and deleted from the system but note still appears.

Any help appreciated.

Here are some articles regarding this situation:

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...welcome+screen

And more here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?sour...=1&sa=N&tab=wg

To reset the message count, click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT

Navigate to:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\UnreadMail


Look in the subkey for each e-mail account. The value you're looking is MessageCount


Double clickthe MessageCount entry and set the value to 0.


To disable this option completely visit my web site, www.dougknox.com and go to the Win XP Fixes section. Follow the link for Disable/Enable Unread Message Count


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"Do not Panic! Your password is correct. It just looks wrong!" - MS-MVP Kelly
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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows 9x/XP
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com

Message gone with restart after the regedit. related to some hotmail
email address

Thanks

No problem.

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