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• Outlook Express can compact messages. How can I disable this error?

  OUTLOOK Express on Windows XP very annoying, it's almost each and every time I click on anything whether to open or close any program, etc...

  An error message is displayed: OUTLOOK Express: to free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages.

  This can take up to a few minutes.      OK or CANCEL

  It's on my computer for several years now and bugs the heck out of me.  How can I remove it so he won't?

  ALSO: All programs when opening are reduced to the minimum (small format) forces me to click on the big box next to the RED X at the top right?

  Why this is happening and how to remove this problem.  I do NOT need to expand all my programs constantly from the start?

  Thanks for your help Mike G.   * E-mail address is removed from the privacy *

  I do not use OE so I really should stay out of it, but I have it in my notes that can get you started and then other people may also help:

  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.

  So if you have Desktop Search installed, which will increase the counter of an increment, each time that you start and if you open and close OE ten times a day, your meter will be at eleven after only a day.  Repeat this for 9 days and you will see this message.

  Even if you are not using Outlook Express and only using Windows Desktop Search, which will still increase the meter, so when the meter reaches 100, Windows Desktop Search will prompt 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 data when prompted (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 using Windows Desktop Search 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 you better system performance if you just uninstall it.

  Here is an article with some other information:

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

• Outlook Express 6.0: message Constant (every 10-15 seconds) - Outlook Express can compact messages.

  In the last 4-6 months, I get the message: "to free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This can take up to a few minutes. OK / Cancel. "This happens when my computer starts (after welcome screen) up to and including when that I disconnect during the night. AND it happens every 10-15 seconds and up to a few hours. then it stops for several hours and then again every 10-15 seconds. To say that it is boring, frustrating and a pain in the * would be a major understatement.
  I never click OK; always Cancel. I have NO idea why this is happening.

  Around the same time that it started, so-called indexing (?) stood. He appears on the Desktop Board. I never asked for it, have no idea what it is, etc. Have no idea if the two are connected.                   Questions:1) how "Compact messages" go away forever? Where they come from? Why are the projection on my computer.        Note: I am the one and only user on this computer!
  (2) what is indexing? Why I need or want? Why it appear? He needs to go ASAP!

  Finally, the technical stuff: OS - XP Pro SP3. Antivirus: Webroot 2011-2012. To update all patches from Microsoft. Browser: Firefox.
  Nobody knows what is happening and how to make it go away.

  Thank you very much!!!                                    P.S. in the time it took me write this (about 5-7 minutes), the "Compact messages) showed up to 10 times! You see why I'm ready to tear my hair out?

  Assuming that you use either OE, and or, you leave compact once, indexing is perhaps the reason. Windows Search is installed?

  You must tell Windows Search to stop indexing 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.

  You may leave compact once to reset the counter, but which should end with the prompt up to 100 closures of OE. If you do not OE, you let compact occasionally.

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

  About file Corruption:
  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

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

  Every few minutes the message:

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

  It is irrelevant for two reasons:

  (1) I do not use Outlook Express and have therefore no messages to be compacted.

  (2) I have not free disk space as I am currently using only five percent of the very large disks.

  Is could someone please tell me how I get rid of this very irritating message.

  Try to reset the compact County in the registry:

  1. Start the registry editor.
  2. Open this key:

     \Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\ {identity}

     where the identity is a string of letters, numbers, and dashes.

  3. The value of Compact Check Count to 0.
  4. Close the registry editor.

  For more information, see why you should let Outlook Express Compact Messages when it asks you .

  WARNING: Incorrectly editing the registry can damage your system and prevent Windows to start. Before you do, back up your important data, make a restore point and make sure that you know how to repair a damaged system. Boulder computer Maven
  Most Microsoft Valuable Professional

• Delete the message "for free space disk outlook express can compact messages."

  I use a PC with Windows XP SP3. I use Outlook Express to access a mail server via POP3 / SMTP. Several times, I get a message saying "Disk outlook express can compact messages for free space": how to prevent the message from appearing?

  I read the posts in this forum even on users not using only not OE. I use OE, but I want to choose if and when compacting messages...

  Greetings and greetings of the season

  Marius

  Prompt compaction is triggered whenever you close OE 100 times.  So if you compact manually, you don't get invited again until you close OE for another 100 times.  Unfortunately there is no way to change this.  Dbx files shall be compacted.  If they are not, they will move on to an enormous size, and then get corrupted, so it is important to pack on a regular basis.
   
  Steve
   
  wrote in message News: * e-mail address is removed from the privacy *...

  I use a PC with Windows XP SP3. I use Outlook Express to access a mail server via POP3 / SMTP. Several times, I get a message saying "Disk outlook express can compact messages for free space": how to prevent the message from appearing?

  I read the posts in this forum even on users not using only not OE. I use OE, but I want to choose if and when compacting messages...

  Greetings and greetings of the season

  Marius

• To stop, "to free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This may take a few minutes"pop up.

  original title: unwanted pop-ups

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

  Yahoo!!  The popup is gone!  Had tried several other procedures, nothing helps.  This fix was relatively easy and successful.  Thanx loads, Runde

• Whenever I have new identity in Outlook Express 6.0, I get a dialogue box that says to save space, Outlook Express can compact messages.

  Outlook Express 6 problem

  Whenever I have new identity in Outlook Express 6.0, I get a dialogue box that says to save space, Outlook Express can compact messages.  I received a patch of Bruce Hagen to tell Windows to stop indexing. It worked for 6 days, now it is doing it again. The box that Bruce was told in Indexing Options is always disabled. Is there something more, what can I do?

  I have constant guard on my computer. Should I remove it?

  Yes, Microsoft Security Essentials is installed, you should Uninstall constant guard.

  [Constant guard (AKA ProtectedID) has been installed when installing Comcast freebie keeps constant Protection Suite that also included Norton Security Suite.]

  Because my computer crashed and I have [done a clean install of Windows XP], when I restart I get has if you asking to the screen in black and white, I want to run MS XP or XP Ms.  If I hit enter it go far, as it does after a while if I do nothing. I never had this before. How can I get rid of him?

  Although this behavior is indeed a concern, I'm afraid that it is totally off-topic for this thread, Charles.

  For assistance that question, you can start your own new thread in this forum: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-system

  Good luck!

• Get the message "To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages" - No. OE installed

  From the beginning of this week, I get a pop-up message stating "To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages".  This happens when that I start.  The fact is; I do not use Outlook Express or have installed. I checked the Windows components that are installed and checked that.  Once again; He started at the beginning of this week.  There are a few updates that was installed earlier this week also.  No other software has been added.  I use Outlook 2003 and have for years.  Will continue to cancel this message, I would appreciate it if someone could shed some light on how to prevent this message from poping up upward.

  Of course, it has something to with Windows Search as you suggest.
  I open the Indexing Options and found that Outlook Express was listed and checked in an indexed location.
  I took the case off Outlook Express but he left on my Outlook 2003.
  The settings saved and restarted.
  The message poped always upward, but I noticed one thing - search index icon does not appear in the taskbar until I actually recognized the message by choosing .  I waited about a minute and a half before that I did to make sure my boot is complete.  Soon I clicked on cancel search index icon appeared on the system tray.

• How to stop Outlook express to compact messages asking

  every time when close Outlook express its demand for compact
  Please solve

  Let it compact. Do not forget to backup messages just to be safe.
   
   
  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 automatically 'spam' messages... deleted?

  When Outlook Express download since my mail server it automatically deletes messages, that he sees as spam and I swallowed in a folder that opens temporarily out of the deleted items folder, and then exits.  But I never find where these downloaded messages and missing persons are passed (and they are not in the McAffee Spam folder).  Where these messages go and how can I find them?

  OE and McAfee do not work well together.  See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 at a minimum, you must disable the analysis of e-mail and antispam functionality and then remove your e-mail account and add it back again.  Then OE should work better.  Even better would be to remove McAfee and get something less invasive such as www.microsoft.com/security_essentials .  But this isn't a matter of OE you meet, but rather a McAfee publishes.  The messages are probably removed from the file and place the file is filled with zeros there where the messages were - that has been my experience anyway.  But then the OE database is not in agreement with what is actually there, and things OE even deleted messages from McAfee are still there.

  Steve

• Outlook Express: Restore compact trash emails

  Last night, with respect to many previous nights, the message appeared asking me if I want to compact my emails for free space. Normally I just click 'Cancel', but last night I clicked 'OK' just to get rid of the annoying message.  I didn't touch a computer, but went to bed and left to do its thing.  This morning I found that all the emails in my Inbox for the last 12 months had disappeared.  (Emails in subfolders are always here much.)  I went in the trash and found an icon it bearing the mention "Inbox.dbx.bak (1.9 GB)" therefore clicked on it.  I chose the option to restore OK, but now I can't find this file anywhere and emails were not delivered to my Inbox.  I used My Computer/Search function to search for "Inbox", "dbx" & "bak", but all without success.  Can someone tell me where they could be, please, keeping in mind that I am certainly not gifted in computer science.  I am a grandma of golf & I need explanations in easy to understand language.  I had a glance on various blogs & forums, but can't really find anything specific to my situation, and certainly nothing that gives an answer in the language, that I can understand!  I hesitate to restart my computer, just in case this file disappears completely (if it has not already done).

  The fact that you let the Inbox become so big compiled with not compacting lead to this mess.
   
  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  

• To free up disk space, outlook express can compact messages. This may take a few minutes.

  I started getting this message yesterday (2/28).  Likewise, I do not use Outlook Express (although I do use Microsoft Outlook - and get a lot of mail - 100 per day - keep up to 20)).  I opened Outlook Express and there is no visible message through the app.  I did not choose to run the process of "compact" of the window pop up.  Any thoughts?

  You must tell Windows Search to stop indexing OE.
   
  In the control panel. Indexing Options. Change. Clear the check box for Outlook Express.
  You may leave compact once to reset the counter, but Don ' there worry not, it can't hurt a thing.

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

  I started getting this issue of dialog start until recently. It appears every time on start up. I do not understand how or where it comes from because I do not use Outlook Express - I use Outlook. I always Cancel, but it always comes back. What has caused this? Is this a virus (my security software said no)? It would be safe to respond ok to clean? Thank you.

  Well, I see that Microsoft watches this question!   I also get this and I don't use Outlook at all, nor is it even listed in my control panel of the installed software.  I thought that if I could uninstall it it would go, but there is nothing that I can uninstall.  A response would be nice.

  Outlook and Outlook Express are two different programs. Outlook Express is a part of XP, so it cannot be uninstalled. If you get the compact quick to Outlook Express and are even use it, reset the registry only works for a few days, or even hours. When it starts up again, consider the following.

  If Windows Search is installed on this machine, which is the likely culprit. You have to tell to stop indexing OE.

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

• How can I configure Outlook Express automatically download new email messages

  How can I configure the computer automatically download all new e-mail messages without selecting send/receive, when I have Outlook Express on?

  Tools | Options | In general. The arrival of messages every X minutes.

  Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | In general. Make sure that "include this account...". "is checked.

• Outlook Express asks Compact records

  In Outlook Express I'm persistent requests to compact message files.  According to allow a compression session does not stop requests.  They appear several times in each session.

  How can I disable this request?

  Thank you

  aquaries

  Is Windows Search or installed Nero Scout?

  In the case of Windows Search, (the offender #1), you must be told to stop indexing OE.

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

  In the case of Nero Scout, see point 2.3 page 8 here.
  FTP://ftp6.Nero.com/user_guides/Nero8/Scout/NeroScout_Enu.PDF

  In the option to exclude indexing of selected file types, remember to add these file types:

  .eml, .dbx & .nws