# Windows Live Messenger **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 25, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-live-messenger/507675 "2009-08-25T19:52:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-live-messenger/507675/1 "2009-08-25T19:52:06Z")
I have Windows Live Messenger 2009 (Build 14.0.8064.206). It is always showing 5 new messages in the Email Inbox. Even when there are none. How can I renew this to 0 messages when there are none? ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-live-messenger/507675/2 "2009-08-25T20:24:57Z")
Sometimes this happens to me with Yahoo Messenger. It will happen to me if I check my e-mails without having signed into YM first. I’ll check my e-mails, read the new ones then sign out. Sign in to YM later on in the day and it’ll say I have some new ones, when I actually don’t. Try signing into WLM and clicking on the button that will take you to your inbox to check these supposedly new e-mails. Acknowledging you have new e-mails through the IM program itself is how I would get YM to actually stop telling me I have new e-mails. I don’t know why it can’t just detect I don’t have any new e-mails, but most IM clients suck really badly in some form or another. Except Google Talk of course. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-live-messenger/507675/3 "2009-08-26T20:37:18Z")
So far, I have tried everything, but nothing has worked for me. This morning it said that I had 6 mails, but when I went there, I had about 12 mails. After finishing with them and deleting all of them, I got out and still had 5 mails showing. To me, 5 = 0. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-live-messenger/507675/4 "2009-08-26T22:27:46Z")
I just reinstalled Windows Live Messenger and now I have 6 ghost messages showing. Ughhhh! 😕