At some time in the past, you checked the Do not show me this again when you
saw the prompt to compact. A recent update puts the prompt back and gets rid
of the option to not see it. This was because OE would start compacting and
people wouldn't realize it was happening. Not knowing, they shut down their
computers during the compaction process and lost messages. That is why you
see the prompt again after 100 closings.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Jack Gillis" wrote in message
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If I recall correctly, up until a few days ago OE6 would periodically
compact my message folder automatically when it exited. Now that doesn't
appear to be happening. I get a message asking me if I want to compact
them. I've not knowingly change anything except for a recent run of MS
Update. There may have been a change because of that.

Can anyone shed light on this?

I am running XP Home SP2 with all current updates.

Thank you.