About 2 weeks ago, I began receiving the following message every time I close Outlook Express 6: "To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This may take up to a few minutes. OK? Cancel" How do I stop this annoying and unwanted message?2 people need an answerI do too

Have you let it compact? If not, do so. If you have and keep getting this prompt, is Windows Search installed on this machine?Bruce Hagen ~ MS-MVP [Mail]

Windows Search is NOT installed on this machine. Now what?

Then it should be one of the reasons below besides Windows Search.<canned>There is a growing number of programs and actions that may be causing this after installing SP3. Do you have any of the following?IBM Rapid Access keyboard (driver) RAKDLL.DLLWindows {Desktop} SearchMailwasherNero plug-in(s)Opening EML files while OE is closed will also contribute to the registry count.Various anti-virus, anti-spyware and third party firewalls, especially if they were running when you installed SP3.Archived thread discussing this issue in June 2008:http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general/browse_frm/thread/fcd35fbfa457fd6fIn the case of Windows Search, (the #1 offender), you have to tell it to stop indexing OE.Windows Search. Set Desktop Search Options: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/windows/desktopsearch/search/options.mspxIn the Windows Control Panel | Indexing Options | Modify. Clear the check box for Outlook Express.In the case of Nero Scout, see Item 2.3 on page 8 here.ftp://ftp6.nero.com/user_guides/nero8/scout/NeroScout_Enu.pdfIn the option to exclude selected file types from indexing, be sure to add these file types:.eml, .dbx & .nwsBruce Hagen ~ MS-MVP [Mail]