XP SP3 OUTLOOK EXPRESS ISSUE

[Guest Ron Kirschner]

Since installing SP3 last week - Outlook Express keeps on asking about

compacting my messages over and over while OE is open. Is this a known

problem?

[Guest Bruce Hagen]

Re: XP SP3 OUTLOOK EXPRESS ISSUE

 

Crossposted to the Outlook Express General Newsgroup.

 

"Ron Kirschner" <ron@jedron.com> wrote in message

news:uUWnShhAJHA.1748@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Since installing SP3 last week - Outlook Express keeps on asking about

> compacting my messages over and over while OE is open. Is this a known

> problem?

 

 

The problem is the registry counter that gives you the prompt after 100

closings of OE is being increased quicker than it should. There is a growing

number of programs that may be causing this after installing SP3. Do you

have any of the following?

 

IBM Rapid Access keyboard.

Windows Desktop Search

Window Live Mail

Mailwasher.

Nero.

 

Various anti-virus, anti-spyware and third party firewalls, especially if

they were running when you installed SP3.

 

You could also download RegMon:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896652.aspx.

 

Run the program and monitor the Compact Count Check registry value by

filtering on: Compact Count Check.

 

This should identify the program that is causing the rapid increase in the

Compact Check Count registry value.

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Bruce Hagen

MS-MVP Outlook Express

Imperial Beach, CA

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: XP SP3 OUTLOOK EXPRESS ISSUE

 

[Also crossposted to OE General]

 

See this recent discussion about the problem:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general/browse_frm/thread/fcd35fbfa457fd6f

 

For reference, here's a list of things which are known to cause this

behavior:

 

• Various & sundry anti-virus applications (including Norton);

• Various & sundry anti-spyware applications;

• Various & sundry third-party firewalls;

• Any/all of the above running when SP3 was installed;

• IBM Rapid Access keyboard (driver) RAKDLL.DLL;

• Nero plug-in(s);

• Windows Desktop Search is installed;

• Windows Live Mail is or had been installed;

• Disk defragmentation;

• Using Visual Basic DoCmd.SendObject command to insert emails into

Outlook Express;

• Using any number third-party applications (e.g., accounting software) to

send emails by via Outlook Express;

• MailWasher; and/or

• Programatically opening EML files while OE is closed

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

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Santovec:

 

I've done a little testing with this.

 

With XP SP3 if OE is Closed and you open an EML file in OE (e.g. double

click it or right click and open with OE) when you close the EML file, the

OE compact count is incremented. In SP2, that did not happen. So something

has changed in the OE logic.

 

Under SP3, If OE is open, you can then open and close EML files all you want

and the compact count is NOT incremented.

 

Source:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general/msg/e410e94c4c55d67a

 

 

 

Ron Kirschner wrote:

> Since installing SP3 last week - Outlook Express keeps on asking about

> compacting my messages over and over while OE is open. Is this a known

> problem?

[Guest Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Re: XP SP3 OUTLOOK EXPRESS ISSUE

 

"Ron Kirschner" <ron@jedron.com> wrote in message

news:uUWnShhAJHA.1748@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Since installing SP3 last week - Outlook Express keeps on asking about

> compacting my messages over and over while OE is open. Is this a known

> problem?

>

 

This is caused by some program constantly indexing the compact counter by

one. Here are some known culprits:

 

IBM Rapid Access keyboard.

Windows Desktop Search

Window Live Mail

Mailwasher.

Nero.

 

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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM

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