You're welcome. You might want to take a look here as this new patch
automatically backs up OE when you compact. It isn't at Windows Updates yet,
but you can get it now.

Patch KB918651:
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.

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~

"Jack Gillis" wrote in message
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That answers my question completely and I thank you.

Seems like, a long time ago, I saw and checked the option not to show the
prompt again. As you pointed out, one of the updates I recently installed
did away with that option to not see the message.

Thanks again.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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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.
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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.