XP - "You have one unread message" at the Welcome screen under the username?

[VirtualLarry]

Does anyone know what causes this? I assume (perhaps wrongly) that this is some sort of MAPI thing. Maybe Outlook or Outlook Express?

I have a client who is semi-clueless with Windows, and has MS Office 2003 installed.

At some point in the past, this person messed with Outlook and Calendering, because someone else they know wanted them to get into Office and do some work for them.

Normally, though, they use Verizon webmail, through IE8 or Firefox 4beta.

This is showing up under their Admin account, not their Internet user account. Client claims to have never used Outlook or Outlook Express under the Admin account.

The only thing that I can come up with, without looking at the machine, is that they set up Outlook at some point in the past, and it happened to download an e-mail from somewhere.

She also has Logitech Vid installed, and did use the Admin account, to apparently unsuccessfully post a video to Facebook.

Does Logitech Vid hook into MAPI?

 

[Nothinman]

I believe Outlook 2003 "sent" you a "Welcome to Outlook" message when it was first setup, so they probably setup an Outlook profile and that message is sitting in the admin account's mailbox.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I believe Outlook 2003 "sent" you a "Welcome to Outlook" message when it was first setup, so they probably setup an Outlook profile and that message is sitting in the admin account's mailbox.

I was kind of thinking along that line. I'll check it out when I see that client next month.

(Client called me at 8:30pm last night, ranting about how they couldn't log off their admin account. I had to finally puzzle out what they meant, and re-assure them that that message didn't mean that there was a program actively running in the admin account in the background. Apparently, after logging off of admin, the fact that it no longer said that admin was logged on, or that there were programs running under admin, escaped them.)