Whenever I go to my Outlook Express 6 program, I constantly get pop-ups that say "To free up disc space, Outlook Express can compact messages". I get this pop-up even when I am in the middle of typing an E-mail, which is most annoying. I also get the pop-up even when there are just a few messages in my inbox. Is there any way to eliminate this?1 person needs an answerI do too

This is supposed to happen every 100 closings of OE (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2), but other programs access the OE message store and mimic OE opening and closing and that's why you are getting that message. Several programs can do this. If you have Windows Search installed, then go to Control Panel | Indexing options (I think that's where it is) and exclude OE from being indexed and see if that fixes it. If that's not it, then its likely some other program, so go to Start | Run and type msconfig and then disable the startup items and reboot and see if that fixes it. If so, then you can selectively enable the startup items you need to see which one of those is the culprit. steve <Chilliwackian> wrote in message news:Email removed for privacy...Whenever I go to my Outlook Express 6 program, I constantly get pop-ups that say "To free up disc space, Outlook Express can compact messages". I get this pop-up even when I am in the middle of typing an E-mail, which is most annoying. I also get the pop-up even when there are just a few messages in my inbox. Is there any way to eliminate this?

You can control the Compacting process by doing it at a time that suits you at any time before the count reaches 100.In Outlook Express place the cursor on Local Folders and select File, Work Offline followed by File, Folder, Compact All. Do not attempt to interrupt or stop the process until it has completed. Close Outlook Express when it has completed but do not rush closure as changes will still be being made for a period after the compaction process appears to have completed.After compacting, check your Outlook Express folders are as they should be. Then select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Run Disk Defragmenter.Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

Whenever I go to my Outlook Express 6 program, I constantly get pop-ups that say "To free up disc space, Outlook Express can compact messages". I get this pop-up even when I am in the middle of typing an E-mail, which is most annoying. I also get the pop-up even when there are just a few messages in my inbox. Is there any way to eliminate this?Please refer to http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpdesktop/thread/a20e7b27-8851-4e23-80a3-4800ee5227a5

General OE Caveats:- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose.- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.- Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More athttp://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm- Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place.- Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages) and provides no additional protection: Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (IE, Mail, Security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ Disclaimer: MS MVPs neither represent nor work for Microsoft