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be very careful with incredimail! it does it's own spamming and calls home from your pc which is the part I do not like, I would be sure to set firewall to block. Applications like IncrediMail, call back home every four hours to download IncrediMails own form of SPAM (advertisements) via a call to 206.82.140.163:80. This is some info you should be aware of, this is quoted from the wiki which I will link to. Quote: Technical There is much controversy over the usability and viability of HTML email in general. Due to its heavy and very visible use of HTML formatting in its default out-of-box configuration, Incredimail finds itself at the forefront of this controversy as what many of the detractors of HTML email consider an extreme "worst-case example" and many of the proponents consider "fun and friendly." Some argue that the program increases message sizes (and consequently download times for recipients) and uses more bandwidth than text-only or HTML mail. In addition, the (default) heavy use of HTML and embedded images in Incredimail is difficult to tell from spam in automated filters; at times high-profile pump-and-dump penny stock spammers have used this similarity to sneak their payloads through those automated filters.[9][10] Preferences within the program can be set, however, to send mail in a plain-text format. In addition, Incredimail makes extensive use of the registry and system directories which is not properly rolled back with its uninstallation script. This has frequently required manual registry edits to fix the damage if a user decided later to remove the program.[11] Legal Finally there has been a good deal of controversy over the privacy policy of the company which produces Incredimail. The program collects data such as how many emails are sent, how many pictures are sent in those emails, dates and times the user has the program open, and more.[12] Verbiage from the EULA Incredimail users must accept in order to install the program is also a source of controversy, as this EULA provision at one time specifically granted the Incredimail corporation "an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute" any email sent using the program itself. This text has since been modified to restrict these rights grants more reasonably to unsolicited email sent to the Incredimail corporation, however. Further controversy over potential security issues within the Incredimail client and service seem born out by the "Risks" clause in the current EULA, however, which includes very forbidding (and unusual in an email client, see the Thunderbird EULA for a contrasting example[13]) text about "hacking, cracking, nuking," and more: Incredimail and unfortunately it is very difficult to get rid of incredimail, in fact microsoft has written articles about just that, this is a link to pchell instructions on how to try ( note they offer an uninstaller for sale, it should be able to be done with out that) How to Uninstall or Remove Incredimail Here is a link that might be useful: microsoft article

Don't know if this will work for mail that gets sent to the task bar but it works for the size of the mail... Just open one of the mails and re-size it to the size you want, don't close it, then open another mail and do the same thing... The close them both using the X in the upper right corner of the mail... Open another one and see if that fixed it... Rita

Do you have an icon for Outlook Express? What happens when you click on it? Does it work? Was Outlook installed at some point in the past, even if you didn't use it? Is Outlook installed now, even if it isn't being used? Have you recently installed/uninstalled any mail clients?