Yes: View | Sort By | Received & Sort Descending. If the settings keep
changing, try a new identity.

The icons to the left would have no effect on this.

Does the cursor jump around in other programs? i.e. your browser?
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"sanandra" wrote in message
ups.com...
I want to sort the messages by time/date received with the most recent
mail at the top of the list. I do not have Sent under View but I
checked Sort by received in descending order. I just had a thought: I
wonder the little icons at the left of the inbox, the flag, etc that
shows it was read.would have any effect on the settings changing all
the time. Would using these icons cause these settings to go off? After
I set it this morning, it went off again.The cursor too, is acting
erratically; by that I mean it jumps wherever it wants whenever.Maybe
this is a separate problem.

I have Windows XPPro SP2. I use Firefox as a browser instead of IE
although that is still running.

Thank you,
Sanandra