119 New Messages?

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I'm curious what this message means. When Windows first starts when I turn
the comp on in the morning, I sometimes get a message under my Log On name
that says something like: "50 New Messages". I only get the message once in
a while. This morning it said "119 New Messages". I check my Outlook
Express and I only had 5 new messages. I also have two hotmail accounts. Is
this message indicating that I have 119 new messages in one or both of my
hotmail accounts?

Just curious. Thanks for the help. Mike
 
Mike950 said:
I'm curious what this message means. When Windows first starts when I
turn
the comp on in the morning, I sometimes get a message under my Log On name
that says something like: "50 New Messages". I only get the message once
in
a while. This morning it said "119 New Messages". I check my Outlook
Express and I only had 5 new messages. I also have two hotmail accounts.
Is
this message indicating that I have 119 new messages in one or both of my
hotmail accounts?

Just curious. Thanks for the help. Mike
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If I recall correctly, Outlook Express has a setting which, by default, has
Messenger turned on. If that's the case, than these messages probably are in
your hotmail account. Have you logged into Hotmail to find out?
 
le mer. 15 févr. 2006 said:
I'm curious what this message means. When Windows first starts
when I turn the comp on in the morning, I sometimes get a message
under my Log On name that says something like: "50 New Messages".
I only get the message once in a while. This morning it said
"119 New Messages". I check my Outlook Express and I only had 5
new messages. I also have two hotmail accounts. Is this message
indicating that I have 119 new messages in one or both of my
hotmail accounts?

Just curious. Thanks for the help. Mike
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To know which mailbox is fulled you can use my script
http://gilles.ronsin.free.fr/fichiers/unread.vbs
 
Mike,

I had that same problem after I updated my MSN Messenger. I downloaded a
progrm called "Tweak UI" and used it to turn off those alerts.
 
Instead of turning off alerts, why not just read or delete the messages from
the account?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Many people use free accounts like Hotmail as their trash dumps for the spam
that inevitably results from posting in newsgroups. If those accounts are
never used for real email, why check them? Why even be bothered by them with
alerts?
 
Thanks for the replies. Actually the notice doesn't bother me. I was just
curious if the number of "unread mail" was for all my email accounts, just
Outlook Express, or just a certain Hotmail account. Now that I know it's
from all accounts it makes sense. The reason I have two Hotmail accounts is
because the first account was getting so much spam that I opened a second
account. I still keep the first one because there are still a couple of
people that have changed email addresses that I haven't been able to notify
of my new address. Of the 119 new unread messages, 110 of them are problably
in that first Hotmail account. I try to check and clear it every few days
but the amount of daily spam is outrageous. I'm hoping to be able to close
it in a few weeks.

Whatever happened to that "Unsolicited Email Legislation" that was passed?
I guess it doesn't have any enforcement component to it. Oh well.

Mike
 
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