Today, while working on my desktop, a glance to my laptop (WXP
Pro) which was Shutting down, suddenly showed me a notification
windowlet saying (approximatively) "Outlook Express can compact
your messages, compacting will save space, etc."

I at once clicked the × button in the upper right corner to stop
this (I couldn't know how much time was left before it
eventually would start its compacting). But at the same time I
saw another system windowlet saying "Program not responding",
and the name of that program was something like
"Windnotifysomething"; I immediately closed it by its × button,
avoiding any "OK".

This happened several times.

If necessary I recall that compacting messages in OE is
(right or wrong) known for increasing risks of file corruption.
Anyway this is not the problem: opinion and decision about
compacting or not is MINE, not Microsoft's.

How can I make sure OE is not mulling compacting messages
against my will?

Paris, Mon 12 Jun 2006 10:56:35 +0200