It is my understanding that the only way I would risk corruption is if I
wait too long between compacting OE messages. If I never compact OE at all,
I have no risk of corruption.

That is exactly what I would like to do.. Never compact my messages. I wish
to never risk my messages at all. I have plenty of HD space and I am not
worried about the space requirements, I simply want to have a choice.

Are you guys going to keep hekling me or does someone have an anwer to my
question

Keven


"PA Bear" <PABearMVP******.com> wrote in message
news:ufjrLVVdHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> ...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
>