"Louise" wrote in message
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I am having a problem with old newsgroup messages in Outlook Express
6 on Windows XP SP2.

I have these settings in Tools Options Maintenance set;

[Ticked] Delete read message bodies in newsgroups.
[Ticked] Delete news messages 2 days after being downloaded.

The messages do not go, they hang around forever!!!

Have also tried the Windows repair thing (Start Run sfc /scannow
press ENTER.) as per MS's site and that did nothing, not even a
message, but took a good 10 minutes or so to run.

Nothing seems to have made a difference and yet everything else
works fine. Except one newsgroup (even though I have clicked 'Catch
Up') still tries to download *all* the thousands of messages every
now and then!?


You forgot to mention something or perhaps to notice it: Those options
are under the "When compacting ..." group of options. Well, that
means WHEN compaction occurs is WHEN those options are honored. Did
you actually perform a manual compaction? No? Well, then those
options aren't effected until OE happens to get around to doing the
compaction itself which, after WinXP SP-2, will be every 100 sessions
of OE.