"D. W. K." wrote in message
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Hello to all! Does anyone know how I can prevent IE6 from automatically
"compacting" every so often on its own?

The problem is that every time it does this it takes forever to do it and
when it is done my entire computer runs incredibly SLOOOOOOOOOW!!

This is extremely aggravating to me! I don't know why it has this effect
on my computer but every single button click, selection or other action
after a "compacting" event responds in glacial time for at least the first
15 minutes or more for each program I open up!

Thank you,

DWK
Simi Valley, CA
USA



DWK, with all due respect, you would be better to allow OE to compact your
folders.
Back up first then 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
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

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.


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?


--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. IE/OE.