.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare, Windows Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and Task Manager. Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily, Ad-Aware, Zone Alarm, Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every 3 wks. Lately, slowing down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG advice uploaded OneCare, and Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of ..bak files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all of them. This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the last 24 hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it was the wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings showing up in my present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there are duplicates of many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my Default Email handler. Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing email, My Music folder with sub folders comes up, not My Documents. When I hit Format/Background/Pictures a browse window for "background" opens up and when I hit Browse the Stationery under Microsoft Shared opens up! It gets worse believe me. There seems to be no way to configure the defaults to match up between IE and Install-Uninstall window in Control Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my email handler (it wasn't), then went into Control Panel/Install-Uninstall and checked the Defaults, and they were changed. No one uses this computer but me. My memory, is fine. I ran OneCare, and it just wants me to download IE7. I've run the Registry tool from MS and its done. What on earth is going on? I'm afraid to empty my Trash at this point, but don't want to pull it all back into my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning widow report, Task Manager, et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my DSL company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem (their's), hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they had a pw I've never heard of for my email account. After playing this game with them for days, I requested a signed judge's order if they "had to" change my modem configuration, or put me on another pin since they won't let me use my own modem (a friend who is a well-known major CEO of an software/Internet company advised me to do that...and told me why they were doing it). Thus, they twice reconfigured my modem to another one I do not possess, and it knocked me off line for up to 36 hours each time, until I called "the shots" on them. Could this be the craziness I'm experiencing? If so, look out everyone. Hide your computers from the Internet, and remember Hushmail is free and uses PGP encryption (no more keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.

.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

What do you need help with? Losing your messages after you compact, (not compress).

The reason for the bak files in the RB is due to the OE update, (KB923694). Now when you compact, a copy of your dbx files are sent to the Recycle Bin in the event that something should go wrong and messages, or entire folders, are lost when you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile as we spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back, and they have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will go away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you don't currently back up OE regularly, I would suggest you get this,
or a similar tool, (freeware):

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what is written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

BTW. You have a patch waiting for you at Windows Updates. You are one short of an up-to-date OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message ...
Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare, Windows Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and Task Manager. Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily, Ad-Aware, Zone Alarm, Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every 3 wks. Lately, slowing down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG advice uploaded OneCare, and Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of ..bak files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all of them. This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the last 24 hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it was the wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings showing up in my present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there are duplicates of many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my Default Email handler. Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing email, My Music folder with sub folders comes up, not My Documents. When I hit Format/Background/Pictures a browse window for "background" opens up and when I hit Browse the Stationery under Microsoft Shared opens up! It gets worse believe me. There seems to be no way to configure the defaults to match up between IE and Install-Uninstall window in Control Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my email handler (it wasn't), then went into Control Panel/Install-Uninstall and checked the Defaults, and they were changed. No one uses this computer but me. My memory, is fine. I ran OneCare, and it just wants me to download IE7. I've run the Registry tool from MS and its done. What on earth is going on? I'm afraid to empty my Trash at this point, but don't want to pull it all back into my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning widow report, Task Manager, et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my DSL company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem (their's), hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they had a pw I've never heard of for my email account. After playing this game with them for days, I requested a signed judge's order if they "had to" change my modem configuration, or put me on another pin since they won't let me use my own modem (a friend who is a well-known major CEO of an software/Internet company advised me to do that...and told me why they were doing it). Thus, they twice reconfigured my modem to another one I do not possess, and it knocked me off line for up to 36 hours each time, until I called "the shots" on them. Could this be the craziness I'm experiencing? If so, look out everyone. Hide your computers from the Internet, and remember Hushmail is free and uses PGP encryption (no more keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.

.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

Bruce thank you so much...I knew about this process, but not the semantics, since I'm a vision-impaired user; now I know.

Thank you doubly.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ...
What do you need help with? Losing your messages after you compact, (not compress).

The reason for the bak files in the RB is due to the OE update, (KB923694). Now when you compact, a copy of your dbx files are sent to the Recycle Bin in the event that something should go wrong and messages, or entire folders, are lost when you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile as we spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back, and they have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will go away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you don't currently back up OE regularly, I would suggest you get this,
or a similar tool, (freeware):

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what is written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

BTW. You have a patch waiting for you at Windows Updates. You are one short of an up-to-date OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message ...
Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare, Windows Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and Task Manager. Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily, Ad-Aware, Zone Alarm, Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every 3 wks. Lately, slowing down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG advice uploaded OneCare, and Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of ..bak files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all of them. This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the last 24 hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it was the wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings showing up in my present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there are duplicates of many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my Default Email handler. Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing email, My Music folder with sub folders comes up, not My Documents. When I hit Format/Background/Pictures a browse window for "background" opens up and when I hit Browse the Stationery under Microsoft Shared opens up! It gets worse believe me. There seems to be no way to configure the defaults to match up between IE and Install-Uninstall window in Control Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my email handler (it wasn't), then went into Control Panel/Install-Uninstall and checked the Defaults, and they were changed. No one uses this computer but me. My memory, is fine. I ran OneCare, and it just wants me to download IE7. I've run the Registry tool from MS and its done. What on earth is going on? I'm afraid to empty my Trash at this point, but don't want to pull it all back into my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning widow report, Task Manager, et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my DSL company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem (their's), hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they had a pw I've never heard of for my email account. After playing this game with them for days, I requested a signed judge's order if they "had to" change my modem configuration, or put me on another pin since they won't let me use my own modem (a friend who is a well-known major CEO of an software/Internet company advised me to do that...and told me why they were doing it). Thus, they twice reconfigured my modem to another one I do not possess, and it knocked me off line for up to 36 hours each time, until I called "the shots" on them. Could this be the craziness I'm experiencing? If so, look out everyone. Hide your computers from the Internet, and remember Hushmail is free and uses PGP encryption (no more keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.

.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

You're welcome. You do extaodinarily well for someone in your position.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Bruce thank you so much...I knew about this process, but not the semantics,
since I'm a vision-impaired user; now I know.

Thank you doubly.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
What do you need help with? Losing your messages after you compact, (not
compress).

The reason for the bak files in the RB is due to the OE update, (KB923694).
Now when you compact, a copy of your dbx files are sent to the Recycle Bin
in the event that something should go wrong and messages, or entire folders,
are lost when you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new
mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile as we
spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back, and they
have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will go
away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you don't currently back up OE regularly, I would suggest you get this,
or a similar tool, (freeware):

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what is
written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

BTW. You have a patch waiting for you at Windows Updates. You are one short
of an up-to-date OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare, Windows
Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and Task Manager.
Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily, Ad-Aware, Zone Alarm,
Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every 3 wks. Lately, slowing
down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG advice uploaded OneCare, and
Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of .bak
files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all of them.
This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the last 24 hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it was the
wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings showing up in my
present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there are duplicates of
many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my Default Email handler.
Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing email, My Music folder with sub
folders comes up, not My Documents. When I hit Format/Background/Pictures a
browse window for "background" opens up and when I hit Browse the Stationery
under Microsoft Shared opens up! It gets worse believe me. There seems to be
no way to configure the defaults to match up between IE and
Install-Uninstall window in Control Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my email
handler (it wasn't), then went into Control Panel/Install-Uninstall and
checked the Defaults, and they were changed. No one uses this computer but
me. My memory, is fine. I ran OneCare, and it just wants me to download IE7.
I've run the Registry tool from MS and its done. What on earth is going on?
I'm afraid to empty my Trash at this point, but don't want to pull it all
back into my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning widow report, Task
Manager, et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my DSL
company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem (their's),
hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they had a pw I've
never heard of for my email account. After playing this game with them for
days, I requested a signed judge's order if they "had to" change my modem
configuration, or put me on another pin since they won't let me use my own
modem (a friend who is a well-known major CEO of an software/Internet
company advised me to do that...and told me why they were doing it). Thus,
they twice reconfigured my modem to another one I do not possess, and it
knocked me off line for up to 36 hours each time, until I called "the shots"
on them. Could this be the craziness I'm experiencing? If so, look out
everyone. Hide your computers from the Internet, and remember Hushmail is
free and uses PGP encryption (no more keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.

.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

Oh oh, just 'heard' in listening to your post that I'm short of one update,
but I'm on Windows Automatic Update and OneCare didn't notice it. I am at
..2900 and SP2 on my OE updates. Is that incorrect?

You are so kind. I'm most grateful for the advances in technology that are
so helpful in moving the dis-ABLED (tm) forward to independent living. All
of you are very much a part of the gratitude of many, for your time, sharing
your education, gifts, and expertise, and believing in communications, on
this very important Independence Day.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...


You're welcome. You do extaodinarily well for someone in your position.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Bruce thank you so much...I knew about this process, but not the
semantics, since I'm a vision-impaired user; now I know.

Thank you doubly.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
What do you need help with? Losing your messages after you compact, (not
compress).

The reason for the bak files in the RB is due to the OE update,
(KB923694). Now when you compact, a copy of your dbx files are sent to the
Recycle Bin in the event that something should go wrong and messages, or
entire folders, are lost when you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new
mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile as
we spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back, and
they have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will go
away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you don't currently back up OE regularly, I would suggest you get this,
or a similar tool, (freeware):

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what is
written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

BTW. You have a patch waiting for you at Windows Updates. You are one
short of an up-to-date OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare, Windows
Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and Task
Manager. Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily, Ad-Aware,
Zone Alarm, Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every 3 wks.
Lately, slowing down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG advice
uploaded OneCare, and Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of .bak
files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all of them.
This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the last 24
hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it was
the wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings showing up
in my present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there are
duplicates of many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my Default
Email handler. Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing email, My Music
folder with sub folders comes up, not My Documents. When I hit
Format/Background/Pictures a browse window for "background" opens up and
when I hit Browse the Stationery under Microsoft Shared opens up! It gets
worse believe me. There seems to be no way to configure the defaults to
match up between IE and Install-Uninstall window in Control Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my email
handler (it wasn't), then went into Control Panel/Install-Uninstall and
checked the Defaults, and they were changed. No one uses this computer but
me. My memory, is fine. I ran OneCare, and it just wants me to download
IE7. I've run the Registry tool from MS and its done. What on earth is
going on? I'm afraid to empty my Trash at this point, but don't want to
pull it all back into my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning widow
report, Task Manager, et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my DSL
company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem (their's),
hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they had a pw I've
never heard of for my email account. After playing this game with them for
days, I requested a signed judge's order if they "had to" change my modem
configuration, or put me on another pin since they won't let me use my own
modem (a friend who is a well-known major CEO of an software/Internet
company advised me to do that...and told me why they were doing it). Thus,
they twice reconfigured my modem to another one I do not possess, and it
knocked me off line for up to 36 hours each time, until I called "the
shots" on them. Could this be the craziness I'm experiencing? If so, look
out everyone. Hide your computers from the Internet, and remember Hushmail
is free and uses PGP encryption (no more keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.

.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

Hi Pappion.

Your message headers read:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028

With the latest updates, it would be:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138

I can't say why you didn't get it using automatic updates.

..2900 is the current version of OE. If / when a Service Pack 3 is released,
that will change.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Oh oh, just 'heard' in listening to your post that I'm short of one
update, but I'm on Windows Automatic Update and OneCare didn't notice it.
I am at .2900 and SP2 on my OE updates. Is that incorrect?

You are so kind. I'm most grateful for the advances in technology that are
so helpful in moving the dis-ABLED (tm) forward to independent living. All
of you are very much a part of the gratitude of many, for your time,
sharing your education, gifts, and expertise, and believing in
communications, on this very important Independence Day.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...


You're welcome. You do extaodinarily well for someone in your position.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Bruce thank you so much...I knew about this process, but not the
semantics, since I'm a vision-impaired user; now I know.

Thank you doubly.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
What do you need help with? Losing your messages after you compact, (not
compress).

The reason for the bak files in the RB is due to the OE update,
(KB923694). Now when you compact, a copy of your dbx files are sent to
the Recycle Bin in the event that something should go wrong and messages,
or entire folders, are lost when you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new
mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile as
we spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back, and
they have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will go
away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you don't currently back up OE regularly, I would suggest you get
this,
or a similar tool, (freeware):

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what
is written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

BTW. You have a patch waiting for you at Windows Updates. You are one
short of an up-to-date OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare, Windows
Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and Task
Manager. Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily, Ad-Aware,
Zone Alarm, Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every 3 wks.
Lately, slowing down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG advice
uploaded OneCare, and Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of
.bak files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all of
them. This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the last
24 hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it was
the wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings showing
up in my present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there are
duplicates of many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my
Default Email handler. Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing email,
My Music folder with sub folders comes up, not My Documents. When I hit
Format/Background/Pictures a browse window for "background" opens up and
when I hit Browse the Stationery under Microsoft Shared opens up! It gets
worse believe me. There seems to be no way to configure the defaults to
match up between IE and Install-Uninstall window in Control Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my email
handler (it wasn't), then went into Control Panel/Install-Uninstall and
checked the Defaults, and they were changed. No one uses this computer
but me. My memory, is fine. I ran OneCare, and it just wants me to
download IE7. I've run the Registry tool from MS and its done. What on
earth is going on? I'm afraid to empty my Trash at this point, but don't
want to pull it all back into my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning
widow report, Task Manager, et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my DSL
company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem (their's),
hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they had a pw I've
never heard of for my email account. After playing this game with them
for days, I requested a signed judge's order if they "had to" change my
modem configuration, or put me on another pin since they won't let me use
my own modem (a friend who is a well-known major CEO of an
software/Internet company advised me to do that...and told me why they
were doing it). Thus, they twice reconfigured my modem to another one I
do not possess, and it knocked me off line for up to 36 hours each time,
until I called "the shots" on them. Could this be the craziness I'm
experiencing? If so, look out everyone. Hide your computers from the
Internet, and remember Hushmail is free and uses PGP encryption (no more
keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.

.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

I've been to the MS Downloads URL and there is nothing like you recommend to
update my OE.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Hi Pappion.

Your message headers read:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028

With the latest updates, it would be:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138

I can't say why you didn't get it using automatic updates.

.2900 is the current version of OE. If / when a Service Pack 3 is
released, that will change.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Oh oh, just 'heard' in listening to your post that I'm short of one
update, but I'm on Windows Automatic Update and OneCare didn't notice it.
I am at .2900 and SP2 on my OE updates. Is that incorrect?

You are so kind. I'm most grateful for the advances in technology that
are so helpful in moving the dis-ABLED (tm) forward to independent
living. All of you are very much a part of the gratitude of many, for
your time, sharing your education, gifts, and expertise, and believing in
communications, on this very important Independence Day.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...


You're welcome. You do extaodinarily well for someone in your position.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Bruce thank you so much...I knew about this process, but not the
semantics, since I'm a vision-impaired user; now I know.

Thank you doubly.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
What do you need help with? Losing your messages after you compact, (not
compress).

The reason for the bak files in the RB is due to the OE update,
(KB923694). Now when you compact, a copy of your dbx files are sent to
the Recycle Bin in the event that something should go wrong and
messages, or entire folders, are lost when you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new
mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile
as we spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back,
and they have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will
go away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you don't currently back up OE regularly, I would suggest you get
this,
or a similar tool, (freeware):

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what
is written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

BTW. You have a patch waiting for you at Windows Updates. You are one
short of an up-to-date OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare, Windows
Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and Task
Manager. Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily, Ad-Aware,
Zone Alarm, Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every 3 wks.
Lately, slowing down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG advice
uploaded OneCare, and Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of
.bak files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all
of them. This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the
last 24 hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it was
the wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings showing
up in my present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there are
duplicates of many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my
Default Email handler. Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing
email, My Music folder with sub folders comes up, not My Documents. When
I hit Format/Background/Pictures a browse window for "background" opens
up and when I hit Browse the Stationery under Microsoft Shared opens up!
It gets worse believe me. There seems to be no way to configure the
defaults to match up between IE and Install-Uninstall window in Control
Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my email
handler (it wasn't), then went into Control Panel/Install-Uninstall and
checked the Defaults, and they were changed. No one uses this computer
but me. My memory, is fine. I ran OneCare, and it just wants me to
download IE7. I've run the Registry tool from MS and its done. What on
earth is going on? I'm afraid to empty my Trash at this point, but don't
want to pull it all back into my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning
widow report, Task Manager, et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my
DSL company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem
(their's), hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they
had a pw I've never heard of for my email account. After playing this
game with them for days, I requested a signed judge's order if they "had
to" change my modem configuration, or put me on another pin since they
won't let me use my own modem (a friend who is a well-known major CEO of
an software/Internet company advised me to do that...and told me why
they were doing it). Thus, they twice reconfigured my modem to another
one I do not possess, and it knocked me off line for up to 36 hours each
time, until I called "the shots" on them. Could this be the craziness
I'm experiencing? If so, look out everyone. Hide your computers from the
Internet, and remember Hushmail is free and uses PGP encryption (no more
keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.

.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

Bruce, can you email me directly?
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Hi Pappion.

Your message headers read:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028

With the latest updates, it would be:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138

I can't say why you didn't get it using automatic updates.

.2900 is the current version of OE. If / when a Service Pack 3 is
released, that will change.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Oh oh, just 'heard' in listening to your post that I'm short of one
update, but I'm on Windows Automatic Update and OneCare didn't notice it.
I am at .2900 and SP2 on my OE updates. Is that incorrect?

You are so kind. I'm most grateful for the advances in technology that
are so helpful in moving the dis-ABLED (tm) forward to independent
living. All of you are very much a part of the gratitude of many, for
your time, sharing your education, gifts, and expertise, and believing in
communications, on this very important Independence Day.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...


You're welcome. You do extaodinarily well for someone in your position.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Bruce thank you so much...I knew about this process, but not the
semantics, since I'm a vision-impaired user; now I know.

Thank you doubly.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
What do you need help with? Losing your messages after you compact, (not
compress).

The reason for the bak files in the RB is due to the OE update,
(KB923694). Now when you compact, a copy of your dbx files are sent to
the Recycle Bin in the event that something should go wrong and
messages, or entire folders, are lost when you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new
mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile
as we spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back,
and they have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will
go away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you don't currently back up OE regularly, I would suggest you get
this,
or a similar tool, (freeware):

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what
is written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

BTW. You have a patch waiting for you at Windows Updates. You are one
short of an up-to-date OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare, Windows
Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and Task
Manager. Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily, Ad-Aware,
Zone Alarm, Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every 3 wks.
Lately, slowing down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG advice
uploaded OneCare, and Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of
.bak files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all
of them. This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the
last 24 hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it was
the wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings showing
up in my present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there are
duplicates of many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my
Default Email handler. Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing
email, My Music folder with sub folders comes up, not My Documents. When
I hit Format/Background/Pictures a browse window for "background" opens
up and when I hit Browse the Stationery under Microsoft Shared opens up!
It gets worse believe me. There seems to be no way to configure the
defaults to match up between IE and Install-Uninstall window in Control
Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my email
handler (it wasn't), then went into Control Panel/Install-Uninstall and
checked the Defaults, and they were changed. No one uses this computer
but me. My memory, is fine. I ran OneCare, and it just wants me to
download IE7. I've run the Registry tool from MS and its done. What on
earth is going on? I'm afraid to empty my Trash at this point, but don't
want to pull it all back into my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning
widow report, Task Manager, et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my
DSL company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem
(their's), hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they
had a pw I've never heard of for my email account. After playing this
game with them for days, I requested a signed judge's order if they "had
to" change my modem configuration, or put me on another pin since they
won't let me use my own modem (a friend who is a well-known major CEO of
an software/Internet company advised me to do that...and told me why
they were doing it). Thus, they twice reconfigured my modem to another
one I do not possess, and it knocked me off line for up to 36 hours each
time, until I called "the shots" on them. Could this be the craziness
I'm experiencing? If so, look out everyone. Hide your computers from the
Internet, and remember Hushmail is free and uses PGP encryption (no more
keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.

.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

You went to Windows Updates and there was nothing there? I don't recall the
KB number, but it was a recent update from the last month, or two.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
I've been to the MS Downloads URL and there is nothing like you recommend
to update my OE.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Hi Pappion.

Your message headers read:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028

With the latest updates, it would be:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138

I can't say why you didn't get it using automatic updates.

.2900 is the current version of OE. If / when a Service Pack 3 is
released, that will change.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Oh oh, just 'heard' in listening to your post that I'm short of one
update, but I'm on Windows Automatic Update and OneCare didn't notice
it. I am at .2900 and SP2 on my OE updates. Is that incorrect?

You are so kind. I'm most grateful for the advances in technology that
are so helpful in moving the dis-ABLED (tm) forward to independent
living. All of you are very much a part of the gratitude of many, for
your time, sharing your education, gifts, and expertise, and believing
in communications, on this very important Independence Day.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...


You're welcome. You do extaodinarily well for someone in your position.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Bruce thank you so much...I knew about this process, but not the
semantics, since I'm a vision-impaired user; now I know.

Thank you doubly.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
What do you need help with? Losing your messages after you compact,
(not compress).

The reason for the bak files in the RB is due to the OE update,
(KB923694). Now when you compact, a copy of your dbx files are sent to
the Recycle Bin in the event that something should go wrong and
messages, or entire folders, are lost when you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new
mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile
as we spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back,
and they have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will
go away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you don't currently back up OE regularly, I would suggest you get
this,
or a similar tool, (freeware):

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what
is written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

BTW. You have a patch waiting for you at Windows Updates. You are one
short of an up-to-date OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare,
Windows Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and
Task Manager. Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily,
Ad-Aware, Zone Alarm, Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every
3 wks. Lately, slowing down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG
advice uploaded OneCare, and Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of
.bak files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all
of them. This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the
last 24 hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it
was the wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings
showing up in my present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there
are duplicates of many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my
Default Email handler. Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing
email, My Music folder with sub folders comes up, not My Documents.
When I hit Format/Background/Pictures a browse window for "background"
opens up and when I hit Browse the Stationery under Microsoft Shared
opens up! It gets worse believe me. There seems to be no way to
configure the defaults to match up between IE and Install-Uninstall
window in Control Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my
email handler (it wasn't), then went into Control
Panel/Install-Uninstall and checked the Defaults, and they were
changed. No one uses this computer but me. My memory, is fine. I ran
OneCare, and it just wants me to download IE7. I've run the Registry
tool from MS and its done. What on earth is going on? I'm afraid to
empty my Trash at this point, but don't want to pull it all back into
my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning widow report, Task Manager,
et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my
DSL company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem
(their's), hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they
had a pw I've never heard of for my email account. After playing this
game with them for days, I requested a signed judge's order if they
"had to" change my modem configuration, or put me on another pin since
they won't let me use my own modem (a friend who is a well-known major
CEO of an software/Internet company advised me to do that...and told me
why they were doing it). Thus, they twice reconfigured my modem to
another one I do not possess, and it knocked me off line for up to 36
hours each time, until I called "the shots" on them. Could this be the
craziness I'm experiencing? If so, look out everyone. Hide your
computers from the Internet, and remember Hushmail is free and uses PGP
encryption (no more keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.

.BAK files and folders in Trash
 

I could, but you have two munged addresses in this thread and I don't know
what should be left in, and what should be taken out. I tried the obvious.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Bruce, can you email me directly?
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Hi Pappion.

Your message headers read:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028

With the latest updates, it would be:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138

I can't say why you didn't get it using automatic updates.

.2900 is the current version of OE. If / when a Service Pack 3 is
released, that will change.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Oh oh, just 'heard' in listening to your post that I'm short of one
update, but I'm on Windows Automatic Update and OneCare didn't notice
it. I am at .2900 and SP2 on my OE updates. Is that incorrect?

You are so kind. I'm most grateful for the advances in technology that
are so helpful in moving the dis-ABLED (tm) forward to independent
living. All of you are very much a part of the gratitude of many, for
your time, sharing your education, gifts, and expertise, and believing
in communications, on this very important Independence Day.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...


You're welcome. You do extaodinarily well for someone in your position.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Bruce thank you so much...I knew about this process, but not the
semantics, since I'm a vision-impaired user; now I know.

Thank you doubly.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
What do you need help with? Losing your messages after you compact,
(not compress).

The reason for the bak files in the RB is due to the OE update,
(KB923694). Now when you compact, a copy of your dbx files are sent to
the Recycle Bin in the event that something should go wrong and
messages, or entire folders, are lost when you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new
mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile
as we spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back,
and they have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will
go away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you don't currently back up OE regularly, I would suggest you get
this,
or a similar tool, (freeware):

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what
is written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

BTW. You have a patch waiting for you at Windows Updates. You are one
short of an up-to-date OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Pappion" wrote in message
...
Computer is HP, XP Pro, SR2; MS Word 2004 programs; use OneCare,
Windows Firewall; Ad-Aware with caution, and checked my Memories, and
Task Manager. Before Thursday last (pre-OneCare) I used AVG daily,
Ad-Aware, Zone Alarm, Windows Defender, and ran Penicillin about every
3 wks. Lately, slowing down, (only using 27% of 1+ Gig) so with XP NG
advice uploaded OneCare, and Uninstalled Acrobat, and AVG.

I go offline to compress my files in OE daily. I just found a host of
.bak files and folders in my Trash--some I know I deleted, but not all
of them. This was discovered after working on my slowing computer the
last 24 hours.

I've had trouble slowing down, but its zipping along rapidly now (it
was the wrong VM max. due to my RAM) with old address book listings
showing up in my present Address Book (and some I've deleted), so there
are duplicates of many. Also,twice the past 24 hours had to make OE my
Default Email handler. Worse, now when I hit Attach on an outgoing
email, My Music folder with sub folders comes up, not My Documents.
When I hit Format/Background/Pictures a browse window for "background"
opens up and when I hit Browse the Stationery under Microsoft Shared
opens up! It gets worse believe me. There seems to be no way to
configure the defaults to match up between IE and Install-Uninstall
window in Control Panel.

The following have been performed: Checked IE to be sure OE was my
email handler (it wasn't), then went into Control
Panel/Install-Uninstall and checked the Defaults, and they were
changed. No one uses this computer but me. My memory, is fine. I ran
OneCare, and it just wants me to download IE7. I've run the Registry
tool from MS and its done. What on earth is going on? I'm afraid to
empty my Trash at this point, but don't want to pull it all back into
my Email, et al. I've saved each scanning widow report, Task Manager,
et al. out of disbelief.

Incidentally, I was shut down off and on this week, three times by my
DSL company, which "assumed" they were putting me on a new modem
(their's), hence a new pin, and I hotly objected once I found out they
had a pw I've never heard of for my email account. After playing this
game with them for days, I requested a signed judge's order if they
"had to" change my modem configuration, or put me on another pin since
they won't let me use my own modem (a friend who is a well-known major
CEO of an software/Internet company advised me to do that...and told me
why they were doing it). Thus, they twice reconfigured my modem to
another one I do not possess, and it knocked me off line for up to 36
hours each time, until I called "the shots" on them. Could this be the
craziness I'm experiencing? If so, look out everyone. Hide your
computers from the Internet, and remember Hushmail is free and uses PGP
encryption (no more keys to maintain).

Thank you for any ideas or help you can offer to me.