Cannot perform maintenance/cleanup actions in windows mail

Running Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium system, it will not perform any of
the three options under maintenance/cleanup - compact, delete, or reset. If
I click on any of them, I get a message box advising it's calculating folder
size, that closes after a couple of seconds and nothing else happens. What
the hell. Is there some arcane little security option in Vista wherein I
need to click on a "Let me delete my friggin' email messages" button?
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Vae Victis
Sic Pereant Omnium Meum Inimici

I have the same problem - can't anybody HELP ME PLEASE!

/Desperate

"GreatGodPanDemic" wrote:

> Running Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium system, it will not perform any of
> the three options under maintenance/cleanup - compact, delete, or reset. If
> I click on any of them, I get a message box advising it's calculating folder
> size, that closes after a couple of seconds and nothing else happens. What
> the hell. Is there some arcane little security option in Vista wherein I
> need to click on a "Let me delete my friggin' email messages" button?
> --
> Vae Victis
> Sic Pereant Omnium Meum Inimici

Try upgrading to Windows Live Mail:
http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas

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Gary VanderMolen [MS MVP-WLM]


"Peggy" <Peggy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3051CE76-8C68-46B1-A216-DA9AD2F6E589@microsoft.com...
>I have the same problem - can't anybody HELP ME PLEASE!
>
> /Desperate
>
> "GreatGodPanDemic" wrote:
>
>> Running Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium system, it will not perform any of
>> the three options under maintenance/cleanup - compact, delete, or reset. If
>> I click on any of them, I get a message box advising it's calculating folder
>> size, that closes after a couple of seconds and nothing else happens. What
>> the hell. Is there some arcane little security option in Vista wherein I
>> need to click on a "Let me delete my friggin' email messages" button?
>> --
>> Vae Victis
>> Sic Pereant Omnium Meum Inimici

"GreatGodPanDemic" <GreatGodPanDemic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:971E31F3-F2CB-4D4E-9BB5-972B240D253D@microsoft.com...
> Running Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium system, it will not perform any
> of
> the three options under maintenance/cleanup - compact, delete, or reset.
> If
> I click on any of them, I get a message box advising it's calculating
> folder
> size, that closes after a couple of seconds and nothing else happens.
> What
> the hell. Is there some arcane little security option in Vista wherein I
> need to click on a "Let me delete my friggin' email messages" button?
> --
> Vae Victis
> Sic Pereant Omnium Meum Inimici

I'm afraid I don't understand your post.

First, there is no button to compact now. Besides, that only compacts the
message database, it does not touch the messages themselves.

Second, I'm not sure you understand the difference between news posts and
email. There are lots of ways to delete email easily without ever going to
Maintenance, including right clicking Deleted Items and selecting the option
to empty the folder

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE, OE/WM
I won't answer email.