Settings don't hold = One or more options/settings in an ever-growing
number of third-party applications may be disallowing the change(s) from
"sticking". These include but are not limited to Ad-aware's Ad-Watch, Spybot
Tea Timer, SpywareBlaster, SpySweeper, Spyware Doctor, Norton AntiVirus,
McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware, and Zone Alarm (Free and Pro).

Disappearing folders = Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone [link]
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx
[link]

Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and #4)
[link] and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (Notes section under
Resolution) [link]
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DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx [link]
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Avoiding Such Corruption in Futu

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working
offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm [link]

- Do not shut down your machine while Windows is automatically compacting
your message store.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org


Pappion wrote:
This has been going on for about 2 months, and I suspect it really a XP
Pro
problem (IE 6, SR 2+++). I've also found my folders disappeared at random,
and once I re-set my View, Saving it didn't "take," until I shut down for
about 20 minutes (Re-Start didn't help). As I said, I suspect an IE
problem
but MS repeatedly contacts me by phone, disconnects, takes another week to
contact me back, et al. I'm weary...wish we had service where we purchase
the software--at least the same country.