Its is due to a new update for OE. It has nothing to do with Vista.

See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 Those are backups of the OE folders that
are saved to the bin prior to compaction so if compaction fails, you don't
lose your messages as many have.

steve

"Joe Ogiba" <jogiba@patmedia.net> wrote in message
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> My XP Recycle Bin has 27 BAK files from Outlook Express up to 12mb each
> and was wondering why they are there. I think it might be done after
> Outlook Express does an automatc compress to save space but this is the
> first time I seen the files in my Recycle Bin. I dual boot XP and Vista
> RC2. Here is a screenshot of my desktop showing the files.
> http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21...RecycleBin.jpg
>