The reply to this post stated that McAfee caused the problem.
Here is the post:
Options/settings in several third-party applications may be disallowing the
deletion of the account. These include Ad-aware's Ad-Watch, Spybot Tea
Timer, SpywareBlaster, SpySweeper, Norton AntiVirus, McAfee VirusScan and/or
Antispyware, and Zone Alarm (Free and Pro).
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

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Ronald Sommer


"Ale" wrote in message
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:I want to remove 3 email accounts from OE, so I go to Tools/Account and in
: the Mail tab I click on the Remove button after highlighting the
respective
: accounts. So they are removed from the account list. Problem is that when
I
: close OE and reopen it, they reappear in the list. How can I fix this?
Thanks.