Re: Stopping the "nag" screen on outlook express?



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"Bill Taylor" wrote:

| Is there a way to stop outlook express from nagging you to compact the
| files? I have a large disk drive and feel no need to do the compacting. Is
| my thinking wrong to not want this?
|
| Thanks,
| Bill

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