I use OE6 as a newsreader only. I run WinXP Pro with AVG as my av. I don't
use the newsgroups very much so I don't know how long this has been
happening, but OE6 automatically subscribes me to any newsgroup I visit,
even if I only download the headers, I'm not telling it to subscribe and
their doesn't seem be an option to turn it off. I'm pretty sure this is
something recent. OE never did that in the past. How can I stop the
autosubscribe? TIA.

Probably turned off the prompt to not subscribe.

Check HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{USER_ID}\Software\Ou tlook
Express\5.0\Don't Show Dialogs and see if ASK SUBSCRIBE is set to 0 or 7

7 is don't show it again.


"a.draper" wrote in message
news:UWR3h.582$Lt4.386@trnddc08...
I use OE6 as a newsreader only. I run WinXP Pro with AVG as my av. I don't
use the newsgroups very much so I don't know how long this has been
happening, but OE6 automatically subscribes me to any newsgroup I visit,
even if I only download the headers, I'm not telling it to subscribe and
their doesn't seem be an option to turn it off. I'm pretty sure this is
something recent. OE never did that in the past. How can I stop the
autosubscribe? TIA.

The reg. entry says : REG_DWORD 0x00000006 (6).
To go back to the default "ask to subscribe" do I change the (6) to (0) or
both the final 6's to 0's?

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"a.draper" wrote in message
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The reg. entry says : REG_DWORD 0x00000006 (6).
To go back to the default "ask to subscribe" do I change the (6) to (0) or
both the final 6's to 0's?

"a.draper" wrote in message
news:afT3h.880$Es5.146@trnddc07...
The reg. entry says : REG_DWORD 0x00000006 (6).
To go back to the default "ask to subscribe" do I change the (6) to (0) or
both the final 6's to 0's?


Change 0x00000006 to 0x00000000
The (6) is just the decimal value of the Hex 0x00000006 and will change when
you save the new value.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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