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> 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.

Think again, Kevin. See
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

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

Your question has been answered. To disable Compact Count from being reset
to 0 (zero) after compacting manually, uninstall KB923694. To disable
Automatic Compacting, uninstall WinXP Service Pack 2.
--
~PA Bear

Kevin J. Nielsen wrote:
> 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
>
> "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.
>>>
>>> "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.
>>>> "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.