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Windows Live Mail 2011 is the new free email client from Microsoft’s Windows Live. Apparently, there is no way to select all messages or junk emails on WLM 2011 interface, as no clear option is offered to its users. This issue is all the more distressing in case you have to mark a big quantity of emails for mass deletion. Do you want an example? Just image that one day you get up and find out that your Windows Live Mail is pestered with hundreds of emails. Well, without the “Select All” option, you will have no choice but deleting them one by one! Luckily for you, I have recently found out that the missed and wanted option is there and actually works! The only issue is that it is not clearly visible. Furthermore, there is more than a way to mass select all your unwanted emails. Let’s see together, thanks to these quick tricks how to get rid of junk emails in a couple of clicks!
First Method
Well, this method is not quite optimal because you will still have to mark all your emails. The only difference is that you will save a lot of time because the whole procedure is going to be pretty fast!
- Login your Windows Live Mail 2011.
- Go to the emails you wish to delete.
- Now, hold down the CTRL key and click all the unwanted emails. Alternatively, you can also press the CRTL key and press the down-arrow on your keyboard.
Second Method
This second method should actually be the one you are looking for as it lets you select and erase all messages in …one second! Let’s see the easy procedure to achieve this.
- Select the first email you want to delete.
- Now, click CTRL + A > Delete. This will let you perform a mass deletion of your unwanted emails in one shot!
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March 1st, 2011
Finally, someone who knows what they are doing. Thank you very much. The end of a very frustrating ordeal.
March 23rd, 2011
What you forgot to mention, was that if you are using Livemail to access your gmail account, this action will not only delete all emails on Livemail, it will also delete all the original emails held on gmail.
I have just lost 4 years worth of emails and am cursing this page.
April 14th, 2011
This is a good tip and it’s all very well, but the point is, ‘select all’ SHOULD be an option on Windows Live Mail itself. For a number of reasons, (one being it can be awkward if you have disabilities), it’s wrong that we have to go to other methods to do it.
Why when they, ‘improve’, things do they make it worse!? What on earth was Microbrains thinking?
May 3rd, 2011
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this is what shows up for an email I cant delete!!!any ideas????
May 23rd, 2011
I installed Windows 7 and had no choice but to say goodbye to Outlook Exppress. This WLW is just terrible. Form navigation, managing, backup to moving emails from one PC to another, it is a nightmare. I can’t believe this is “new” program from MS!
July 19th, 2011
ctrl + delete with arrow key did not work.
July 24th, 2011
I have to agree with Diana, especailly the Improve bit, things were quite Ok and I am sure that the users didn’t ask for it.
Do the Microbrains look at these comments?
September 30th, 2011
THANK YOU!!! I’ve been trying for months to figure out how to delete all my messages without deleting the one at a time. You made my day. Thanks again!
September 30th, 2011
@parkland…Control + A will select all….then just hit delete.
November 7th, 2011
Thank You, I have been dreading it every time that I need to empty my deleted items and sometimes I need to empty the inbox as I have read them off of another computer and don’t need to read again. This has saved me a ton of time
November 18th, 2011
Hey, thank you so much for the easy way to delete the “delete folder” in Windows Live Mail…. I just transferred all my stuff from Outlook Express, and I had about 20,000 msgs flowwing into my new Inbox. (I had to get help to stop, otherwise I’d had 1,000,0000 ha ha ha). Well, now I have a great and fast way, thx to you, of getting rid of all those that I’ve had to put individually into the garbage! Saved me a lot of grief!!!
January 5th, 2012
Control A will select all