It's a known problem. Some third party programs are responsible and Windows
Search is the number one culprit. It indexes OE even if you are not using
OE, causing the "closings". See mine & Robear's first replies.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Leonard Grey" <l.grey@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> So...if the OP never uses Outlook Express...how are there messages to
> compact?
>
> And if, as I recall, the compacting message appears after every 100th time
> Outlook Express is closed (default value)...and the OP never opens Outlook
> Express...who closed the program 100 times?
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> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est
>
> Bruce Hagen wrote:
>>> I'm wondering why you don't want this to happen?<
>>
>> The OP isn't using OE? <w>