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i didn't set the client. i let it empty. because my MS outlook is set on windows by default. my friend didn't set either and all is fine for her.

try setting it to MS Outlook anyway and see what happens.

Yeah i try it. i'll do some observations during the next 5 fives hours and i tell you what

well does it work or what...the idea behind "see what happens" is for you to see if it happens again and report back if it doesn't

for now all i can tell you it's the error doesn't appear. that seems good.

I have just changed the email client to Outlook and sent two test emails to myself from my hotmail account and it is fixed! Probably broke when M$ sent out their recent updates.

So, i reboot my computer, start msn and unfortunately i still have this message. I really don't understand why sometime it's fine and later not. i also noticed that it didn't update my number of email, just like it doesn't check.

yep, mine has the same error after a reboot, how annoying. Just to compare my software is Vista 32 bit, Live Messenger 8.1.0178.00, Messenger Plus 4.21.0.270. Hardware wise I have a Core 2 Duo 6600, 8800GTX with 158.18 Vista 32 bit driver, etc etc

Same version of msn and plus. I have a notebook amd turion 2G X700 catalyst 7.4 <= i don't think it's a hardware error but rather software. where ? i don't know

When you recieve the toast telling you have new mail, Plus! can/will also change the Windows' recieved mail count in the registry. I start to get the feeling this is the problem (also because it doesn't happen when you click the test button in the pop3 preferences in Plus!), though this feeling can be completely wrong of course ...

Something like you (Plus!) don't have the proper access rights to change it (typical stuff for Vista), or the location is slightly different for your Windows (would surprise me), or you even have a bad registry image, or whatever (all just guesses though)...

I don't know for sure anymore and I can't check, but I thought Plus! had some registry setting which could turn off the automatical update of Windows' new email count.

Would be nice to hear more about all this from Patchou.