Well, OE is creating me files in my hard disk root, when OE beggins download
my emails, create that files, the names of the files created looks like
s2lc.???, first time i detect the problem, i delete more than 40,000 files,
i open some of this files with notepad and are emails ...

How can I change which account OE checks first, second, ect?
I want my slowest server with the most junk to be last...
how can I do this? Perhaps a registry edit or what?
see screenshot http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3145/screenie1uu9.jpg

I understand that the maximum size of .DBX file 2gig.  I have a couple of
questions on this:
1. I take it that under XP SP2, the "Compact in the background" option has
been removed?  Or, has this been done by a Hotfix for OE?  Also, under XP

The picture attachments I received are too big to fit my screen on the
preview pane located on the lower half of my screen. How can I make them
smaller?

Using Windows mail in Vista I'm trying to import messages from saved dbx
files of outlook express (i don't rememer the version ..) but i cannot see
in the import window the files even if they exist and are stored there. I's
all my old mail!!! Please could anyone help me?

I am running Windows XP Home edition.
I did an update patch of the above and the installation was successful.
However, my pc refuses to boot up when i did a restart.
I have tried to boot on floppy and from XP CD to try to do a repair but I am

Why is it that when I recieve email with pictures in it I get a small square
box in the upper left corner of a lager box were the picture should be and
the picture ends up at the botton of the page.

How can I send email while traveling? I can receive email thru my ISP server
Bellsouth.net but am unable to send email.

I am new to this and not very p/c savvy. I was told to give as much info as
possible. Here goes. I am on a Microsoft Windows 95.  See this "type", I
hate it. It is Arial 12 and I don't know how it get rid of it. I have been
able to change it to another type and print but when I ...

I'm on a Dell Win XP SP2 machine, using Outlook Express.  I had a big
problem with spyware removal today, and things went nuts.  I thought I
had it all fixed, but when I opened OE, although my mail is working
fine, my newsgroups are all grayed out.  I can't access them.  (I'm

Gentlemen, I have windows xp and am using Outlook Express 6.
Today, my spell checker has stopped working. Please help.
Thanks Raymond

I moved from Office 2003 to 2007 and now when I reply to a post on Express
the spell check checks in French.  That's a huge problem as my English does
not resemble French.
I tried to find a setting in Express.  It won't let me change from French at

I have finally got fed up with the fact that i cannot check my spelling at
all in express 6 the icon is not the same as the others, it's just greyed
out. I have tried to find out how to switch it on but i can't do it.
Can anybody tell me what i need to do to activate it, if anyone ...

Why, oh why, do I have to keep learning new technical stuff ?
Why does almost every small change seem to invoke something Windows that
I've never seen, don't understand, don't know how to use, AND have to spend
ages stabbing around in the dark wonder where on earth that came from, ...

I'm trying to help a friend of mine with her computer.
I was able to set up and email account for her at sbcglobal.net (dial up)
and she could send and receive messages using Outlook Express.
However, now she can't open messages, new ones or old ones.  I went over to