> ...I could start uninstalling the updates until the problem goes away.

It's not a problem, it's behavior you dislike.

If you want to risk corruption of your OE store (possible loss of some or
all of your messages) and run a much-less secure version of OE, go right
ahead and do that, Keven/Kevin. You'd be cutting off your nose to spite
your face IMHO.
--
~PA Bear

Kevin J. Nielsen wrote:
> 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
> news:O6xqSpNdHHA.4516@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> YKW~
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> "Clothes make the man. Naked people have
>> little or no influence in society" Mark Twain (1835-1910)
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> "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