Control Panel | Sounds and Audio Devices | Sounds. Remove the corresponding
sound.

You cannot eliminate the compact prompt. It will show after 100 closings of
OE. If you get in the habit of compacting manually before it reaches 100,
you will never see the prompt.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until
the compacting is completed.

Compact Your OE Folders:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

Now, if you are seeing the compact prompt much sooner than 100 closings of
OE, that is another issue.

The problem is with the registry counter that gives you the prompt after 100
closings of OE. It is being increased quicker than it should be and even if
you are not using OE.

There is a growing number of programs and actions that may be causing this
after installing SP3. Do you have any of the following?

IBM Rapid Access keyboard (driver) RAKDLL.DLL
Windows {Desktop} Search
Mailwasher
Nero plug-in(s)

Opening EML files while OE is closed will also contribute to the registry
count.

Various anti-virus, anti-spyware and third party firewalls, especially if
they were running when you installed SP3.

Archived thread discussing this issue in June 2008:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d35fbfa457fd6f

In the case of Windows Desktop Search, (the #1 offender), you have to tell
it to stop indexing OE.

Windows {Desktop} Search. Set Desktop Search Options:
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/w...h/options.mspx

In Windows {Desktop} Search: Control Panel | Indexing Options. Click: Modify
and clear the check box for Outlook Express.

In the case of Nero Scout, see Item 2.3 on page 8 here.
ftp://ftp6.nero.com/user_guides/nero...oScout_Enu.pdf

In the option to exclude selected file types from indexing, be sure to add
these file types:

..eml, .dbx & .nws
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Jimmy Ho" wrote in message
...
I've have been using my Windows XP Home machine for several years and I
have upgraded from SP2 to SP3 last year. No problem has been encountered
until several months ago, a series of "dings" sound was heard after using
the PC for a long while. Recently, I've nailed down the problem to OE6
because once I shut down OE6, the annoying sound would no longer be heard.

A "ding" sound would be heard when a message box is popped up on the
screen, but I don't see any message box on the screen only after I have
closed OE6. It asked me whether I want to compress the mailboxes. I did
compress my mailboxes (about 30) quite frequently already.

Also, is there any permanent way of suppressing that particular message
box popping up on the screen? Please help.

Jimmy Ho