Windows Live Messenger - E-Mail Notification at signon

[whizzbit]

Does anyone know how to switch off the notifcation that you have e-mail at the login screen on XP? Since I installed Live messenger everytime I switch my laptop on it says I have email on my hotmail account (usually spam) this is realy annoying and I want to switch it off but can't work out how to... Can anyone help??

[H0885]

Start the Registry Editor

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ UnreadMail

Double-click the value MessageExpiryDays in the right pane, and change the value to 0 (if MessageExpiryDays doesn't exist, create it by clicking Edit > New > DWORD Value)

Close the registry editor and log off from Windows for the changes to take effect

 

Hope that help :)

[whizzbit]

Thanks I will try it and see if it works :-)

[danzil]

Click on the dropdown menu next to your name and go to options. Then go to Alerts and Sounds and untick or tick at will the third option "Display alerts when email is received"

regards

danzil