"Paul" wrote in message
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"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Cancel has always been an option with XP/SP2. The latest patch only
removed the Do not show me this again option.

Thanks, I've had SP2 for a while and I guess I never noticed the
cancel option. Thanks for the pointer to OETools which in turn led me
to the discovery of the "Compact Check Count" registry key - resetting
that to zero is the solution I've been looking for lo these many
years.


Unless you want to save a .reg file and repeatedly have to deploy it to
reset the counter, all you've done is delay the inevitable. You reset
the count but the count will start incrementing again so eventually you
will get the prompt again. You could schedule a silent deploy of the
..reg file (use the /s switch) in Task Scheduler but then you are
repeatedly having a process change your registry. I don't get nuisanced
with the per-100 prompt because I end up doing a manual compact far
before then (i.e., I do it often enough that I never see that prompt).
I prefer not to have OE slow down because the message stores are getting
huge with lots of delete-marked items that I can't see anymore, anyway.

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