Let's take one thing at a time. Are you fully patched at Windows Updates?
This additional patch, which will be part of a cumulative update in the
future is available to English and German XP/SP users right now.

In your case, compacting manually will not remove the prompt to compact, but
with this patch, it will do that among other things.

Patch KB918766:
http://tinyurl.com/mx3r2

This patch addresses some of the issues that were caused by KB911567.

Address Book problems.
Unsent templates appearing as sent.
Manually compacting will now reset the registry counter to Zero in WinXP/SP2
and also sends a copy of your dbx files to the recycle bin as a temporary
backup.

To complete the fix for .eml templates, a registry change is needed. See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918766

Tom Koch also has this information at his site, along with a downloadable
Zip file to do the registry change for you. See:
http://www.insideoe.com/#kb918651
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Brian Murphy" wrote in message
...
I've had too many problems with this Outlook Express.
Why do things go wacky out of the blue?
I don't do anything new... it often asks to compact folders which I always
do.

I know my Comcast accounts are supposed to be transitioning to Time Warner
Road Runner thing, but we have a year to keep receiving the Comcast
emails.

I also had a new thing awhile ago where all of a sudden my computer would
ask me for my user ID and password to open up. This came after I removed
the
users of my 2 kids and wife on the thing because they were worthless.

But I couldn't remember what a password was and somehow the only way I was
able to get thru it now was change the user id to brian instead of
Administrator. But to do the Road Runner Wizard, it's telling me I need to
have Administrator authorities!

Unless I can get a Microsoft tech out here to clear this whole thing out,
what's the cure-all easiest solution? Buy a whole new Windows package? And
erase this whole spider web of knots? I don't even know if I will be able
to
see any responses here unless they can be fwd to me at yahoo instead.


Thanks for any help