I solved the problems I was having with Mercury I got Mercury through

xampp. I just opened xampp control panel and unchecked the box for

service on the Mercury mail area and it cured all my problems so far

for getting in the admin area. I just thought everyone would like to

know. Thanks for the help.

I recently downloaded and installed xampp. I received Mercury mail as part of the package. I installed everything correctly. I can open up xampp control panel and start mercury. The problem is every time I try to open the Mercury admin set things up I get a windows popup window which says that a program can not display a message on your desktop. Then it says the program may need information or  permission to complete a task. Than the window says some devices and programs that are not fully compatible with windows do not display their messages on your desktop
but may need your permission or other information to complete a task. To access these messages click the show me the message
button.When I try to access the messages I find nothing on the screen at all. I do not know anything about Mercury this is the first time I have ever been exposed to the service. Perhaps my firewall is the problem I do not know. I want to resolve this problem so I can use Mercury. Thank you for any help.

This is the result of a new security feature in Windows as of Vista:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/patricka/archive/2010/04/27/what-is-interactive-services-detection-and-why-is-it-blinking-at-me.aspx 

When running Mercury in application mode instead of as a service you are not affected by this. Furthermore you may want to read this post about accessing the GUI in service mode:

http://community.pmail.com/forums/post/23440.aspx

/Rolf 

 I thank you for the help. That explains alot.