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**Tom Brown**

Thanks Michael. I'll remember that if the problem comes back.

Tom

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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If you turn off the Preview Pane (View, Layout) in Outlook Express you can
select and delete a message without OE trying to open it. For OE5+ you
can add a button to the Tool Bar to toggle the Preview Pane off and on.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"Tom Brown" wrote in message
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On my wife's XP machine, with OE, there are some messages that she can't
delete. This is a relatively new characteristic. I don't know when it
started but it has not always been that way. Some messages are ok
(normal), but many are not.

If she focuses (highlights) on a message, she can't click the DEL key,
the red X, right-click/delete or any other method of getting rid of the
message. She also cannot DRAG it to any other folder or COPY/PASTE. When
she tired that she gets an error dialogue box that says "The selected
message(s) could not be moved. An error has occured."

But, if she does a Shift/Del, it does permanently get rid of the message.
That is not always suitable as she might like to Undelete some messages
in the future. She has XP SP2 and OE Version 6.00.2900.2180

Any help will be appreciated.

Tom