"Rekab1" wrote in message
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Everytime I back out of Outlook Express I get a dialog box popup that
say's
( to free up disk space outlook express can compact messages) how do I
stop
this
message from popping up?
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Rekab1

Rekab1, with all due respect, you would be better to allow OE to compact
your
folders.

See:
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Let it run, "do not" touch anything until it completes.
Work offline.

Every message that you ever deleted remains in the .dbx file of it's folder,
thus leading to large files = corruption in OE
This is a new feature in OE under XP-SP2, it replaces the 'back ground'
compaction feature.
You will get that prompt to compact after 100
OE closings,


To stop it - for now!!


Go to: StartRunRegeditOK and find this key.


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{long number}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0. In the right
hand pane and find *Compact Check Count* right clickmodifydecimaland set
the value to 0,
(zero). This will reset the prompt, and you won't see it again for
another 100 closings.

You edit the registry at your own risk!
See:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

FYI:
Steve Cochran has added a button in his new version of *OE Tool*
that will Compact All Folders, and at the same time,
resets the "Compact Check Count" to zero whenever you compact
manually.
You will see the prompt again if you do not compact
before 100 closings.
http://www.oehelp.com/OETool/


See this for more information on compacting:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact


See this part, but read all the article:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...filecorruption....
HTH?


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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE.