Hmmmmm? Well, "hostaholic" I hope you have better luck than I did! I tried it and the housework just wouldn't "delete"!!! When asked if I wanted to "delete housework permanently", upon saying "yes", and pressing on the mouse, firmly, it shreaked, jumped off the desktop and ran and hid under a dust bunny in the corner!!! Hmmph!!!! Maybe I just wasn't "firm" enough about my intentions!!! janice BTW--Glad to see you posting Donna! We've missed you!!! janice

You can make a SCRATCH folder in Outlook express which will be in the same place as the inbox, sent, etc. click on view and then click on GO TO FOLDER. At the top of the drop down box click at the top to unexpand the list then at the right you should see NEW FOLDER. Click on this and then enter a name for the folder. Usa SCRATCH if you want to. Go back to the inbox and then when you want to MOVE or COPY an email to the SCRATCH folder right click on the email title and them choose move or copy. when you choose the SCRATCH folder name and click OK it will be transferred to that folder. This allows you to SAVE emails if this is what you waht to do. HTH John

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

I recently bought a new HP Pavillion 500 from Costco....thank goodness they have a 90 day, no questions asked, return policy. It came with Windows 7. I set it up and almost immediately got the blue screen of death. I called HP tech support.....in India. I had a difficult time understanding the woman. I called Costco Concierge service the next morning and things when better. I had to go a complete factory restore. It still didn't work. Finally had to send it to be repaired....Fed Ex brought a shipping box....but someone at HP forgot to include the pre-paid mailing label. It took almost a week to get one, which was delivered by Fed Ex. I got the computer returned and it took about a week and when I set it up again, nothing had changed. Even the screen stating Windows had unexpectedly shut down. A new wireless card had been installed but it seems like no one checked to see if there were any other problems. I called the special tech support number and got someone in Indiana. The guy was excellent....it took about two hours to get things to work. And then the updates wouldn't upload. And then, once again I got the blue screen of death. I took the computer back to Costco Tuesday. Now I will wait to decide what I am going to buy and I will certainly buy it at Costco. I think I will probably go with Windows 8.1. The month I had it was a nightmare except for the tech in Indiana who had the patience of a saint.