Solved win 8.1 mail oddity

On my gateway desktop my mail icon has a 1 in it.
even though I have cleaned out all the folders
for all (Aol, att, gmail and yahoo) the 1 remains.
it does change when I receive some mail (it was at 8 this morning)
After I cleaned it the 1 is back.
I also checked out the web mail sites to make sure nothing was in them.
I booted up my laptops and its there too.
Any thoughts on this ??

Hi there. You may want to try the app troubleshooter and possibly other items here:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/21051-apps-tiles-not-working-responding-fix-windows-8-a.html

Otherwise uninstall and reinstall the app which I know is a PITA since you have multiple accounts.

thanks uninstalling and reinstalling worked. it even kept the accounts.

You're quite welcome. Glad to be of help and that something worked.

I didn't know that it saves accounts. Strike up another point for Cloud services assuming you sign in using MS account?

yep

Very cool!