Email Message at Welcome Screen

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Hi. The Welcome Screen says that I have 27 unread email messages under my
name. When I click on it, it says to log on, go to Start and click on Email.
When I do that, it takes me into my Outlook Express account in which I have
no unread email messages. My nephew lived here and had his email and
Messenger and all his info. loaded onto my screen even though I tried to get
him to set up his own. I think that might be where this email message comes
from. He hasn't been here in a month and I would like to totally delete him
or at least that unread emails message. I deleted MSN Messenger from my
computer but that did not get rid of it. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

 

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Hi Niki,

You can use this utility, available from Doug Knox's site, to disable the
unread email notification:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_mailnotify.htm
Click on the link for the second d/load (i.e., xp_mailnotify_all.vbs)



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"NikiWile" <NikiWile@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4F4FF861-5854-49B0-9EE2-529C56D2BDB1@microsoft.com...
> Hi. The Welcome Screen says that I have 27 unread email messages under my
> name. When I click on it, it says to log on, go to Start and click on
Email.
> When I do that, it takes me into my Outlook Express account in which I
have
> no unread email messages. My nephew lived here and had his email and
> Messenger and all his info. loaded onto my screen even though I tried to
get
> him to set up his own. I think that might be where this email message
comes
> from. He hasn't been here in a month and I would like to totally delete
him
> or at least that unread emails message. I deleted MSN Messenger from my
> computer but that did not get rid of it. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

 

[Guest]

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Additionally, Nikki, you can remove his old logon information for Messenger (Hotmail), by going to Start, Run and entering CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 Go to the Advanced tab and click Manage Passwords.

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"NikiWile" <NikiWile@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4F4FF861-5854-49B0-9EE2-529C56D2BDB1@microsoft.com...
> Hi. The Welcome Screen says that I have 27 unread email messages under my
> name. When I click on it, it says to log on, go to Start and click on Email.
> When I do that, it takes me into my Outlook Express account in which I have
> no unread email messages. My nephew lived here and had his email and
> Messenger and all his info. loaded onto my screen even though I tried to get
> him to set up his own. I think that might be where this email message comes
> from. He hasn't been here in a month and I would like to totally delete him
> or at least that unread emails message. I deleted MSN Messenger from my
> computer but that did not get rid of it. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.