1.   Some one has suffered a trashed hard disk or corrupted file or lost an important configuration setting.

2.   The original file was corrupted, so they had to reenter the data.

3.   If it does, then your old Preferences file was probably corrupted, and you can throw out the one on your desktop.

4.   If this file gets corrupted, you may see errors regarding the number of messages.

5.   Outlook opens it as a Web page and programs buried within it, called applets, can then run and corrupt files.

6.   Someone has suffered a trashed hard disk or corrupted file or lost an important configuration setting.

7.   Such events can corrupt files that Windows needs to function properly.

8.   When I mentioned this to a customer, he asked me if I was concerned about someone calling up my modem and corrupting my files.