ok.. here we go.. open up regedit Start > Run > regedit and click OK travel to the reg key called "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail" and those keys will be the user names that are listed as users eg user@hotmail.com .. simply remove the emails.. gets rid of junk and best of all.. it removes the unread email and doesn't affect anything else