How do I mass delete junk mail in Hotmail on Windows 8?

Anonymous
2012-11-22T20:52:08+00:00

How can I mass delete emails from my junk and deleted folder?  Takes too long to highlight and delete 7 or 8 at a time.

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Anonymous
2012-11-24T13:51:42+00:00

Hi atomikbomb,

Certainly, there is an option of delete all of these emails in the Junk and deleted folders. There are two ways of going about manually- which means, you have to perform yourself the steps below:

  1. After signing in to your account, go to each of this folder.
  2. On the top of these emails, tick the box before the word ALL.
  3. Click delete menu above Junk or Deleted folder.

Another way to do it manually is doing the following steps:

  1. Hover the mouse cursor over the folder.
  2. Right click and choose empty folder.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-25T11:40:34+00:00

    As DR Lambert stated, you have to click on one of the emails in the list first and then do a Ctrl+A to highlight all.  Just clicking on the folder does not work.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-25T03:29:30+00:00

    Did you click on and highlight one of the messages first? I'm using Windows 8 Pro.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-25T03:00:13+00:00

    Ctrl+A does not highlight all the messages in the selected folder of my OS. What gives? Is there more than one version of Windows 8 out there?

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-22T18:58:12+00:00

    Your answer is for Webmail, not for the Windows 8 Mail App.  

    To mass delete items in each folder from the Windows 8 Mail app, click on the first email, then do Ctrl+A and it will highlight all messages, then just click on the Trash Can Icon to delete them all.  If you are deleting from the Sent folder, Drafts folder or Junk folder, you will then have to repeat the process in the Deleted folder.

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