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• Outlook Express wants to save disk space by compressing the messeges, but I've never used. Why have my messeges?

  I have Windows XP Pro and I use a hotmail account that is now Outlook.  I understand that.  I've never used Outlook Express.  When I turn on my computer, I get the message that save space disc can compress old files that it could take some time.  Even if they do not have my messeges, I would like to know how to uninstall it if it takes all of my disk space required on my old computer junkie.  I know that if I log in as an administrator, I can disable access to outlook express, but it is still in place?  This brings me to the question of the cleaning disc. In the cleaning disc, it says that compress files will not remove them.  Is that mean they cannot be deleted?  If this is the case, then will I not compress them?  Should I compress them before as I have remove access to Outlook Express as an administrator?  Thank you.

  The prompt for Compact messages is indicated after 100 closures of OE. But as you use it, something else is causing the registry counter display the prompt. My guess is that you should look for Windows installed.
   
  You must tell Windows Search to stop indexing OE.
   
  In the control panel. Indexing Options. Change. Clear the check box for Outlook Express.
  
   
  If you get the prompt again, let compact to reset the counter. It will not affect your Hotmail/Outlook account and messages. In addition, nothing is too much space. It's just a false alarm.
   
  P.S. The removal of access keeps the prompt to appear.
   
   

• When Outlook Express asks you to compress files, what happens to my e-mail messages?

  Outless Express has a pop-up asking you to compress my files of e-mail message to free the disk space. If I click YES, my e-mail messages are deleted?

  Your e-mail messages are not deleted when you compact, unless there's a problem. Always backup personal folders on your computer, e-mail or otherwise.
   
   
  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it?
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
   
  Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE works fine and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you do not. When you delete or move messages, the space they used remains until you compact.
   
   
  Never touch anything until the compression is finished.* *.
   
   
  See:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
   
   
  With SP2, Automatic compaction in the background has been removed because of problems he has caused. Now, you will get a prompt to compact after 100 closures of OE, you need to do, and do not touch anything until it's finished. If you compact manually, at your convenience, this will also set the counter to zero. See this for more information: http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact
   
   
  If you are fully patched, you will now see a copy of your dbx files copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. If something goes wrong when compacting, the messages can be easily restored from this backup. A compact manual resets also the counter in the back of the registry to zero now.
   
   
  For more information, see the information framed in red here:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
   
   
  To keep things running smooth and harden faster:
   
   
  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. It will eventually become corrupt and you may lose mail. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.
   
   
  And backup often.
   
   
  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx 
   

• Pop-up message to start Outlook express to compress messages. Unwanted. How do I turn it off?

  Whenever I start my computer, Outlook Express has a message he can save hard drive space by compressing messages.  I don't want to do this but he won't give any possibility of not.  Just says: "Ok Cancel" will appear then again net bootup.  How can I activate this view or function?

  OE questions should be asked here in the future.

  XP - Networking, Mail, and getting online Forum
  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/xpnetwork/threads

  *************************

  Why do you not want to do?

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it?
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact

  On the Corruption of files
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE works fine and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you do not. When you delete or move messages, the space they used remains until you compact.

  Never touch anything until the compression is finished.* *.

  See:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

  With SP2, Automatic compaction in the background has been removed because of problems he has caused. Now, you will get a prompt to compact after 100 closures of OE, you need to do, and do not touch anything until it's finished. If you compact manually, at your convenience, this will also set the counter to zero. See this for more information:
  http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

  If you are fully patched, you will now see a copy of your dbx files copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. If something goes wrong when compacting, the messages can be easily restored from this backup. A compact manual resets also the counter in the back of the registry to zero now.

  For more information, see the information framed in red here:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

  To keep things running smooth and harden faster:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. It will eventually become corrupt and you may lose mail. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• How to compress the folders of outlook express

  My Inbox Outlook express is almost complete (~ 2 GB) and continues to receive new e-mails. I tried to use the function of compression under file. It started OK, copy of the file and compression, then an error msg pops up saying that the file is used by Outlook Express. So, I was not able to reduce the size of the Inbox by removing some of the attachments. In fact, I was not able to reduce the size of any existing folders.by deletion of their content.

  TXZ

  1/how to access the file from archive to outlook express,.

  2. I'll be able to compress the archive after the deletion of junk files?

  You jumped the gun to fire a little more. What I wanted to do you are to create new folders and move all messages from the Inbox to them and then create a new Inbox. Follow these instructions to recover the old Inbox in OE, so you can move messages to other folders, keep to about 300 MB.

  How to restore individual dbx files
  http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1

  Once this is done, you can simply delete the old and empty Inbox and then compact. The new folders that you create will be much smaller and without alteration, then they should compact now.

  It's the only way to access the folder "archived" except to buy a tool to extract the old messages in the Inbox and place them into folders.

• Compressed Outlook Express emails

  I got my Outlook Express e-mail compressed to allow more free space on the disk.  However, I am not able to locate any compressed file.  Hope that I have not lost the file.

  1: There is none I Option folder I discover in my control panel to activate the hidden folder as advised.

  2: In addition, my mail server provider told me that the compact file is under .mbx.

   
  1: You click Tools on the menu or in the control panel or Windows Explorer and Folder Options must be. If this is not the case, see this.
   
  How to enable or disable the XP folder Options
  http://www.jaystech.com/2007/11/how-to-EnableDisable-folder-options-in.html
   
  2: Must have been a veteran. MBX files served with OE4, DBX files for Outlook Express 5 and 6.

• How to stop demand for files compressed in my Outlook Express? This request appears on my screen of many times while I'm working.

  How to stop demand for files compressed in my Outlook Express? This request appears on my screen of many times while I'm working, even when I go on the internet, it always appears & crashes me typing.  I have a lot of emails and I don't want to compress their files.

  original title: HOW can I STOP ASKING to COMPRESS the FILES in OUTLOOK EXPRESS

  How to stop demand for files compressed in my Outlook Express? This request appears on my screen of many times while I'm working, even when I go on the internet, it always appears & crashes me typing.  I have a lot of emails and I don't want to compress their files.

  Compress, (Compact in American English), removes waste of space, not your messages. Please read below, but if compact you and still get the prompt, after return. It is another question.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact

  Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE works fine and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you do not. When you delete or move messages, the space they used remains until you compact.

  Never touch anything until the compression is finished.* *.

  See:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

  With SP2, Automatic compaction in the background has been removed because of problems he has caused. Now, you will get a prompt to compact after 100 closures of OE, you need to do, and do not touch anything until it's finished. If you compact manually, at your convenience, this will also set the counter to zero. See this for more information:
  http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

  If you are fully patched, you will now see a copy of your dbx files copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. If something goes wrong when compacting, the messages can be easily restored from this backup. A compact manual resets also the counter in the back of the registry to zero now.

  For more information, see the information framed in red here:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

  To keep things running smooth and harden faster:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. It will eventually become corrupt and you may lose mail. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

• Outlook express missing current emails after the compression

  After checking my emails this morning, Outlook express asked me to compress the files. I did it and now I can't see all my Inbox emails that have come since March 23 to today (May 26).  all my messages are there, and all my emails before March 23 are there... but nothing of all the most recent. How can I restore these?

  Just to add to the comments of Bruce.  The first thing to do is to check the Recycle Bin for the bak files are backups of dbx files you want to restore, as appropriate.  See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 don't restore the file with the same name, but give it a different name, so it does not replace what is already existing.

  If there is no file bak or bak files do not contain messages, so your only chance of recovery is my DBXpress program (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/).  While it will pull messages from dbx files, its likely that your Inbox contains more messages which have been lost (the space they were in fills with zeros very often), so you should probably run the extraction of the disk set.  This will bypass the file system and to analyze all the clusters on the drive, and if the messages still exist on the disk, it will recover them.  Its the only program which has this ability and at this stage, its likely, the only thing that will retrieve messages.

  In the future, make sure that you back up your messages frequently, as happens all the time.

  Steve

• Why have I not Outlook Express wanting to compress files?

  I can't find Outlook Express in my Add / Remove programs as I believe that I deleted it from my computer because of conflicts with Outlook 2003. Lately, I have a pop up message saying that Outlook Express can compress the files.  How to remove or delete it from my computer because I don't have Outlook Express on my count.  It's a Sony XP with all the latest updates etc.

  Outlook Express would never vanish "because of conflicts with Outlook." These two programs have nothing in common, and we don't even know the other exists. Your question should be posted on a forum for Outlook Express: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/networking-windows_xp?page=1

• Missing messages in OUtlook Express after compression

  Dear Brian,
   
  Nice day
   
  Help, please!
   
  I have a problem with Microsoft Outlook 6, I'm on a windows xp professional SP3.
   
  What has happened is only a pop window up asked me to compress old files, I said yes and it took a long time to compress, I got bored and press cancil, is the result: half the files of othe my express email outlook are empty xompletely, all emails in them have disappeared. It is a professional computer and emails were accumilating for years, they are very important to me.
   
  I wanted to ask this question on the page of microsoft, but for some reason any, that he would not believe that I am connected and it ask me to connect.
   
  Please, please help me, its really important and I'm desperate :((

  It would be very nice of you to respond to my email * address email is removed from the privacy *, as I'm naïve, how to be notified or find your answer, and I stopped using hotmail almost 7 years ago: S

  I know that I'm you disturbing too, but I'm hopeful that you are kind enough to try to help me. Thank you very much!

  Who is Brian?

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  About file Corruption:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Recovery methods:

  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.

  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.

  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.

  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.

  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.

  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:

  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx

  And see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

• I do not use Outlook Express at all. I'm still getting compression pop up and its very annoying. How can I get rid of the compression jump upward?

  I do not use Outlook Express at all. I'm still getting compression pop up and its very annoying. How can I get rid of the compression jump upward?

  Hi CamiSugiyama,
   
  Here's a similar post which addresses this problem. Follow the suggestions given by "Bruce Hagen" to solve this problem:
   
  Outlook Express compression pops up

• 'Compress msg pop up '... Outlook Express 6.0 (2004) - installed with XP - Pro SP3.

  January 17, 2011 - Best Buy installed XP - Pro SP3 on the computer that previously had XP Home SP2. OE 6.0 has been used in the two operating systems. Using XP-Home Edition, no real problem OE. Within 24 hours using OE XP - Pro, I get the compact message. I checked the space allocated for OE thinking perhaps that there is not enough space and it shows 9,32 mg. Then I also saw local icon Option indexing in taskbar after reading Bruce Hagan's response to the same compress the Speedy anyone. Should I also uncheck indexing of the ENP.
  THANKS - COSMO SPIKE

  January 17, 2011 - Best Buy installed XP - Pro SP3 on the computer that previously had XP Home SP2. OE 6.0 has been used in the two operating systems. Using XP-Home Edition, no real problem OE. Within 24 hours using OE XP - Pro, I get the compact message. I checked the space allocated for OE thinking perhaps that there is not enough space and it shows 9,32 mg. Then I also saw local icon Option indexing in taskbar after reading Bruce Hagan's response to the same compress the Speedy anyone. Should I also uncheck indexing of the ENP.
  THANKS - COSMO SPIKE

  Is this Windows Search indexing dong? Whatever it is, you want to exclude OE.

  Windows Search. Set Desktop Search Options
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Australia/windows/desktopsearch/search/options.mspx

  In the control panel. Indexing Options. Change. Clear the check box for Outlook Express.

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• At startup, the message that "Outlook Express" compress my hotmail.

  Original title: right from the start, a small screen shows "saying 'Outlook Express' compress my hotmail." There must be a check mark displays a place that I never tried to use Outlook express Outlook Express screen on Boot Up

  This sweet new XP Professional & Office Professional 2010 installed on a hard drive costs, now after a start-up I get the screen that says 'Outlook Express' will be my hotmail condence. I know that my hotmail is loaded. Outlook Express is a program not more used for years. I would like to know how to disable this notice. Office Professional 2010 technical support past the ball, so I ask you please

  Hello DedicatedWrench,

  You can look at the post from another forum who has any suggestions to solve the problem with Outlook Express popup.
  http://www.Office-Outlook.com/Outlook-Forum/index.php?t=MSG&th=125144/

  If please reply back and let us know if these suggestions helped.

  Sincerely,

  Marilyn
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think

• Outlook express compression

  After compacting my files and folders, it deleted all the emails in my Inbox to 20/01/11 - why he did this and where are they gone?

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone

  Recovery methods:

  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.

  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.

  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.

  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.

  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.

  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:

  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx

  And see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

• Get rid of OUTLOOK EXPRESS

  She has just appeared on my computer... I find it very annoying!

  I don't know what it means 'just jumped on my computer', but if you see a message like this:

  To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This can take up to a few minutes.

  Here is the information you need to know about what to do (maybe you just need the "BOLD" part), but it may help someone else someday.  This was composed after a few committed Microsoft Support Engineer 'expert' tried to fix for someone suggesting to try things which could never work... so I thought I would help them.

  I advise all to first understand what is happening and then decide how best to treat for your environment:

  If you are talking about a message that says:

  To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This can take up to a few minutes.

  Automatic compaction of Outlook Express files was introduced in Service Pack 2.

  If you are using Windows XP, there is a registry value called:

  Compact Check Count

  It is located in the registry for a key that looks like this:

  \Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0 HKCU\Identities\ {51909A0B-63EE-4EB3-A9A2-7CFA23C1ADCF}

  Whenever you leave OE (not when you open it), the value of the counter increases by an increment (increment is not a verb so you can't increment something and a counter cannot be incremented).  When the value of the counter gets to 101, the next time you close OE asked you to compress messages.

  There are two things that will increase the value of the counter.

  Exit from Outlook Express will increase the value of the counter.

  If you have Windows Desktop Search installed, it will increase the counter every time it works which is usually at least at each reboot.

  If you use Outlook Express, and Windows Desktop Search, the counter will be increased more frequently — whenever you close Outlook Express and whenever Windows Desktop Search launches when you restart.

  Even if you are not using Outlook Express and only using Windows Desktop Search, which again will increase the counter whenever the system reboots, so when the meter reaches 100, Windows Desktop Search invite you to compress messages at the next reboot even if you use not OE.

  This is because Windows Desktop Search is configured by default to search for the Outlook Express database if you are using OE or not.

  No matter how the counter is increased, if you use at least one of these two, eventually you will see this message appear sooner or later.  But you can stop it when you understand.

  Did you know that the "increase" is not a verb?  If you cannot 'increment' (or decrement) a counter.  You can increase or decrease an increment, however.

  You can compress the database when you are prompted as he tells you to do (which resets the counter to 0).

  You can change the registry and reset the counter to hand to buy some time until you see the message again.

  If you do not use Outlook Express, and only by using Windows Desktop Search you will see this message later, but you can tell Windows Desktop Search to never watch the Outlook Express database (or uninstall the Windows Desktop Search if you do not use).

  To remove the Option of Windows Desktop Search index to the database of Outlook Express follow these steps:

  Click Start, settings, Control Panel, Indexing Options, change, clear the box Outlook Express, OK, OK, to save the settings and reboot the system so that the changes will be effective.

  After the Outlook Express recommended for use (which would include the normal database maintenance) will prevent you from seeing the message in the first place.  If you see the message that you might want to reconsider how you use Outlook Express and the risks of data store corruption of occasional or misuse (risk behaviours).

  Most people using Outlook Express or Windows Desktop Search agree just remove the indexing Option in Windows Desktop Search and keep the meter that is built into Outlook Express so that they will remind to compact the database from time to time.  If you had to sort of do not maintain your Outlook Express files, it would be risky for your messages.

  Windows Desktop Search is a memory and CPU of pigs anyway, so if you have installed, I recommend you just uninstall and your system will give you better performance.

  Here is an article with some other information:

  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2