Thank you for your response. It is nice to know I can compact manually if I
want to. However, I would still like the decision to be mine. I wish to
have a choice but Microsoft gives me no choice. I guess it was in one of
the updates I received from Microsoft. Thank you, that gives me a clue, I
could start uninstalling the updates until the problem goes away.

Keven



"You Know Who ~" <you.know.who@att.net> wrote in message
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> Microsoft went to this because people didn't compact space as they should
> have. You either let things go too long (in which case you should get the
> message) or you have enourmous space requirements (do you keep ALL of your
> emails?). The prudent thing to do is to compact periodically, manually
> before the message screams at you to do something you should have already
> done.
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> "Kevin J. Nielsen" <keven@5smalldogs.com> wrote in message
> news:ekz45fNdHHA.2332@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Every time I close Outlook Express, I get the following message: "to free
>> up disk space, outlook express can compact messages."
>>
>> I have read about this and I understand it does not diminish the
>> integrity of my messages.
>>
>> However, the problem I have is that I cannot stand it when programs like
>> this keep bugging me relentlessly until I do what they want me to do. I
>> want to have the choice to say yes or no. This program does not give me
>> that choice because it keeps bugging me until it gets its way.
>>
>> I would greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me how to stop these
>> annoying pop-ups.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank You very much
>>
>>
>>
>> Keven
>>
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