Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

Deleting Old Messages

After you begin sending and receiving messages, you'll soon accumulate quite a few. To delete old messages, follow these steps:

  1. Select the messages you want to delete. To select more than one message, press and hold the Ctrl key as you click each message header.
  2. Click the Delete button on the toolbar or choose Edit, Delete.

Deleted messages are moved to the Deleted Items folder. If you need to retrieve a message deleted by accident, display the contents of the folder by selecting it from the Folder List. Then select the message you wish to save. Drag the message to the folder in which you want to keep it. For example, drag the message to the Inbox folder in the Folder List.

To empty the Deleted Items folder, right-click on it in the Folder List, and select Deleted Items from the shortcut menu that appears.

Tip

Empty the Trash To set up Outlook Express so that it empties the Deleted Items folder whenever you exit the program, open the Tools menu and select Options. Click the Maintenance Tab and select the Empty messages from the "Deleted Items" folder on exit option and click OK. It's important to delete items from the Inbox and from the trash that are no longer needed to optimize the performance of Outlook Express.

In this lesson, you learned how to send and receive messages with Outlook Express . In the next lesson, you learn about Windows security.

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