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Deleting Mail From Windows Live Mail Inbox

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tearinghair | 15:24 Thu 09th Jun 2016 | Internet
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I haven't used Windows Live Mail since Adam was a boy, and have just opened it to find a zillion messages in the inbox. I'm sure I used to be able to delete them all at once, but I can't remember how to do it. Please would someone remind me?
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I don't use WLM but the standard Windows 'block selection' technique works in every email client (and, indeed, in every web-based email service) that I've ever encountered.

So (just as if you were selecting a whole block of files in a folder) click on the first one and then hold down Shift while clicking on the last one. Then select 'Delete'.

If there are a few emails that you'd like to retain within a block, select the whole block and then hold down Ctrl while deselecting the relevant items.
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Not working at the moment - I can only click on one at a time even with the shift key held. I gave up on Live mail originally because it wasn't working properly, so maybe this is yet another manifestation of that. I'll try again later. Thanks for the advice.
alternative method ... control a highlights all the emails then delete

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Sorry for the delay, I've been having more trouble with broadband. The ControlA option worked - thank you very much.

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