Sounds like you have your view set to only show unread items. You can change
your view in the View menu.
Note that Office 2000 had 3 Service Packs and not 2 ;-)
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"Edward Monet" <Edward
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> Using Office 2000 w/SP2, W/XP Home SP2, Gateway laptop & Gateway Desktop,
> peer to per network for printing.
>
> On the laptop, Outlook deletes my emails after opening them.
> I uninstalled Office 2000, virus checked, scandisked, defraged, and then
> reinstalled the program up to SP2. All for nothing. The problem remains.
>
> I checked the EMAIL ADVANCED FUNCTION>ARCHIVE and it is unchecked. What
> causes the emails to disappear?
>
> Thnx
>
> EM