"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in message
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"§hirley" wrote in message
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Hi Frank; Perhaps now this message will show that I do......I had a mishap
with windows last night which upset a lot of things big
time.......however,
thanks to the windwosxp general newsgroup, and Bruce Hagen, all is well
again. Thank you for looking in.
Shirley



"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in message
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"§hirley" wrote in message
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Hello;
I am running Windows XP Home Edition SP2
Only when I click on a message in OE Newsgroups, does the Delete button
gray
out. Any help to correct this situation would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Shirley



According to your message headers you do not have ANY service Pack for
WinXP. If you indeed had WinXP SP2 the Delete button on the keyboard
would
work for news messages.



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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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Yes, that's better.

Since you have SP2 I would also recommend this update:
There are two articles, KB918766 and KB918651, but the latter is not
currently available. The download link is
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

It places the backup in Recycled, overwriting any earlier backup of the
sane folder(s). To use it, copy it to the store folder, delete the one you
want to replace and then rename the BAK file to DBX. (It's a bit more
complicated if the messed up DBX file isn't there or contains messages that
are new that you want to keep.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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I will definitely check this out Frank, and thank you most kindly for your
recommendations, it is most appreciated.
Shirley