Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
"Outlook Express

! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may take
up to a few minutes.

OK Cancel"

I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to it
without success.

Help please to get rid.

Thanks

Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?:
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE functioning well
and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you don't. When
you delete messages, they are only marked for deletion and the space they
had used, remains until you compact, or the space is eventually overwritten.
See:
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

With SP2, automatic background compacting was removed due to problems it
caused. Now you will get a prompt to compact after 100 OE closings, which
you should do and don't touch anything until it has finished. See this for
more information:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

To keep things running smooth, and for faster compacting:

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt and you may lose mail. Create your own user defined folders for
storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder
regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as
empty as is feasible.

And this is a very good option:

Steve Cochran has added a button in his new version of OE Tool that will not
only Compact All Folders, but 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/

You should still check: Work Offline before you compact.

And backup often.

Backup and Resto

http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/

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

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx


If you don't have the current version, you can reset the counter to 0,
(zero).

Go to: StartRunRegeditOK and find this key.

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

However, if you do not compact your folders from time to time, you stand a
good chance of your .dbx files becoming corrupt and very possibly lose your
messages. You will be posting back at some time asking, "Why are my saved
e-mails missing?"

If you want to take that chance, it's your choice. Good luck.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"AT and HMB" wrote in message
...
Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
"Outlook Express

! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may
take
up to a few minutes.

OK Cancel"

I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to it
without success.

Help please to get rid.

Thanks

Compacting is a helpful function that consolidates your email messages and
news posts to free up space on your hard disk. Windows automatically offers
to do this every 100th time (I believe) you close Outlook Express, or you
can do it manually at any time. As Martha Stewart likes to say "This is a
good thing."

For more information on compacting, see he

"Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it? "
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

--
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

"AT and HMB" wrote in message
...
Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
"Outlook Express

! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may
take
up to a few minutes.

OK Cancel"

I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to it
without success.

Help please to get rid.

Thanks

Perhaps I should have mentioned that I do compact regularly (after
off-lining). Likewise I also copy my email partition to another one
immediately before compacting.
My request was just about getting rid of the reminder which for some reason
comes up every time (even after I have just finished compacating).
Thanks.


"Ted Zieglar" wrote in message
...
Compacting is a helpful function that consolidates your email messages and
news posts to free up space on your hard disk. Windows automatically
offers
to do this every 100th time (I believe) you close Outlook Express, or you
can do it manually at any time. As Martha Stewart likes to say "This is a
good thing."

For more information on compacting, see he

"Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it? "
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

--
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

"AT and HMB" wrote in message
...
Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
"Outlook Express

! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may
take
up to a few minutes.

OK Cancel"

I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to
it
without success.

Help please to get rid.

Thanks

Perhaps I should have mentioned that I do compact regularly (after
off-lining). Likewise I also copy my email partition to another one
immediately before compacting.
My request was just about getting rid of the reminder which for some reason
comes up every time (even after I have just finished compacating).
Thanks.

"Ted Zieglar" wrote in message
...
Compacting is a helpful function that consolidates your email messages and
news posts to free up space on your hard disk. Windows automatically
offers
to do this every 100th time (I believe) you close Outlook Express, or you
can do it manually at any time. As Martha Stewart likes to say "This is a
good thing."

For more information on compacting, see he

"Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it? "
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

--
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

"AT and HMB" wrote in message
...
Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
"Outlook Express

! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may
take
up to a few minutes.

OK Cancel"

I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to
it
without success.

Help please to get rid.

Thanks

AT and HMB wrote:
Perhaps I should have mentioned that I do compact regularly (after
off-lining). Likewise I also copy my email partition to another one
immediately before compacting.
My request was just about getting rid of the reminder which for some reason
comes up every time (even after I have just finished compacating).
Thanks.

The answer is to download and install OE Tool. If you use it to compact,
it will reset the counter to zero and you'll never see that message again.

http://www.oehelp.com/OETool/

That new feature of SP2 is dangerous. If you lose power and it's the
100th time, bye, bye messages.

Alias


"Ted Zieglar" wrote in message
...
Compacting is a helpful function that consolidates your email messages and
news posts to free up space on your hard disk. Windows automatically
offers
to do this every 100th time (I believe) you close Outlook Express, or you
can do it manually at any time. As Martha Stewart likes to say "This is a
good thing."

For more information on compacting, see he

"Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it? "
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

--
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

"AT and HMB" wrote in message
...
Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
"Outlook Express

! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may
take
up to a few minutes.

OK Cancel"

I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to
it
without success.

Help please to get rid.

Thanks

QP
My request was just about getting rid of the reminder which for some reason
comes up every time (even after I have just finished compacting).
/QP

You can't get rid of it. But as I stated in my original reply, and as Alias
has reiterated, if you use OETool to compact, it will reset the counter to
zero. So if you compact more often than 100 closings, you *won't* see the
prompt again.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"AT and HMB" wrote in message
...
Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
"Outlook Express

! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may
take
up to a few minutes.

OK Cancel"

I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to it
without success.

Help please to get rid.

Thanks

Or you can manually go into the Registry and set the value to 0.

steve

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
QP
My request was just about getting rid of the reminder which for some
reason
comes up every time (even after I have just finished compacting).
/QP

You can't get rid of it. But as I stated in my original reply, and as
Alias has reiterated, if you use OETool to compact, it will reset the
counter to zero. So if you compact more often than 100 closings, you
*won't* see the prompt again.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"AT and HMB" wrote in message
...
Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
"Outlook Express

! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may
take
up to a few minutes.

OK Cancel"

I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to
it
without success.

Help please to get rid.

Thanks

I use IE SP1 and do not get this message. Also I do not have *Compact Check
Count* in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID for
Identity}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0.
Where should I create the custom folders? can I create them as subfolders in
my Inbox or do I have to create them under "Local Folders"?
Thanks

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
| Or you can manually go into the Registry and set the value to 0.
|
| steve
|
| "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
| ...
| QP
| My request was just about getting rid of the reminder which for some
| reason
| comes up every time (even after I have just finished compacting).
| /QP
|
| You can't get rid of it. But as I stated in my original reply, and as
| Alias has reiterated, if you use OETool to compact, it will reset the
| counter to zero. So if you compact more often than 100 closings, you
| *won't* see the prompt again.
| --
| Bruce Hagen
| MS MVP - Outlook Express
| ~IB-CA~
|
| "AT and HMB" wrote in message
| ...
| Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
| "Outlook Express
|
| ! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may
| take
| up to a few minutes.
|
| OK Cancel"
|
| I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to
| it
| without success.
|
| Help please to get rid.
|
| Thanks
|
|
|

I use IE SP1 and do not get this message. Also I do not have *Compact Check
Count* in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID for
Identity}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0.
Where should I create the custom folders? can I create them as subfolders in
my Inbox or do I have to create them under "Local Folders"?
Thanks
AJS

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
| Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?:
| http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact
|
| Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE functioning well
| and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you don't. When
| you delete messages, they are only marked for deletion and the space they
| had used, remains until you compact, or the space is eventually
overwritten.
| See:
| www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
|
| With SP2, automatic background compacting was removed due to problems it
| caused. Now you will get a prompt to compact after 100 OE closings, which
| you should do and don't touch anything until it has finished. See this for
| more information:
| http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact
|
| To keep things running smooth, and for faster compacting:
|
| Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
| corrupt and you may lose mail. Create your own user defined folders for
| storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder
| regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as
| empty as is feasible.
|
| And this is a very good option:
|
| Steve Cochran has added a button in his new version of OE Tool that will
not
| only Compact All Folders, but 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/
|
| You should still check: Work Offline before you compact.
|
| And backup often.
|
| Backup and Resto
|
| http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/
|
| http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
|
| http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx
|
|
| If you don't have the current version, you can reset the counter to 0,
| (zero).
|
| Go to: StartRunRegeditOK and find this key.
|
| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID for
Identity}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
| Express\5.0. In the right hand pane and find *Compact Check Count* and set
| the value to 0, (zero). This will reset the prompt, and you won't see it
| again for another 100 closings.
|
| However, if you do not compact your folders from time to time, you stand a
| good chance of your .dbx files becoming corrupt and very possibly lose
your
| messages. You will be posting back at some time asking, "Why are my saved
| e-mails missing?"
|
| If you want to take that chance, it's your choice. Good luck.
| --
| Bruce Hagen
| MS MVP - Outlook Express
| ~IB-CA~
|
| "AT and HMB" wrote in message
| ...
| Every time I close down OE I get the following message:
| "Outlook Express
|
| ! To free up disk space, Outlook express can compact messages. This may
| take
| up to a few minutes.
|
| OK Cancel"
|
| I have searched through tools and accounts to try and find reference to
it
| without success.
|
| Help please to get rid.
|
| Thanks
|
|