Any Idea why, when my Outlook Express Compacts Files it sends a copy of all the .bak files to the Recycle Bin? I just did a complete re-format and re-install of Windows XP. Thanks, Overwhelmed.

You might want to try these sites:

Outlook Express ... (http://forums.vnunet.com/thread.jspa?messageID=781747)

Re: BAK files in recycle bin (http://www.mistered.us/wwwboard/messages/17437.shtml)

All e-mail items may be missing when you start Outlook Express 6 Service Pack 1 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918069)

AumHa Forums (http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=23279)

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.inetexplo rer.ie6_outlookexpress&tid=d65d1be8-f6a0-404a-84ad-e27db83be58e&p=1

Thanks Clough, everything still works properly and I don't lose any messages. I was just wondering why the backup to the recycle bin and your info helped out. Regards, Overwhelmed.

As noted above, this was a Microsoft problem. We just installed Service Pack 3 for XP and the problem appears to have returned. We are getting the same behaviour as described in the Microsoft article.