...Who in MS thought up this doozie in the latest OE6 updates?

OE MVPs lobbied long & hard for (1) automatic compacting, (2) the removal of
automatic compacting in the background, (3) automatic backup during
compacting, and (4) a reset of the automatic compact count when user
compacted manually*. Here's why:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

What on earth are we supposed to do with our daily emails being emptied
out
of our Recycle Bins?

Right-click on the Recycle Bin desktop icon Properties: See that "Maximum
size of Recycle Bin" Setting? If and when the total size of all the files
in the Recycle Bin exceed this limit, Windows will automatically delete
enough files so that the size of the folder is below the limit. The
deletion is done on a FIFO (First In, First Out) basis. So you really don't
need to empty the Recycle Manually if it's that much of a bother to you.

...why do we have to go to all of this trouble to clean up our
emails?

Which is more of a nuisance, a little extra maintenance or losing your
entire message store?

...I'm
no longer going to let MS automatically download updates to my computer.

If you choose to cut off your nose to spite your face, so be it, but that's
not a very wise or well-thought out move IMHO. Understand that MS06-076
(Cumulative Security Update for OE; 923694) addressed some security
vulnerabilities in OE and Windows, too.

* #1 & #2 were introduced in WinXP SP2 (Aug-04); #3 was introduced in the
optional 918766 (Apr-06) and later in MS06-076/923694 (Dec-06) which also
introduced #4
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)


Pappion wrote:
Is there any solution to this going offline before deleting our messages
and
Sent/Deleted Items/then Compressing, and then emptying the Recycle Bin?

What on earth are we supposed to do with our daily emails being emptied
out
of our Recycle Bins? They're accumulating on our hard drive, and taking up
space. Can we find them and...oh, hec, no, I realize that! This is
ridiculous. Who in MS thought up this doozie in the latest OE6 updates?
I'm
no longer going to let MS automatically download updates to my computer.
Sheesh, this takes far too much of my time. I'm hearing the same hue and
cry
from many other MS users, and now former ones, who have left IE and OE.

There is no way I'll trust Vista, now. I'll hold for a while longer with
XP
Pro. But, why do we have to go to all of this trouble to clean up our
emails?