RE: clean up--compacting??
- From: v-wweng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Winfred Weng [MSFT]")
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:09:39 GMT
Hi Paul,
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Thank you for everyone's experience sharing. Paul, before we go any
further, I would like to confirm whether you encounter the following
message when you try to close Outlook Express: "To free up disk space,
Outlook Express can compact messages. This may take up to a few minutes."
If it is this case, I would like to let you know that this is a new feature
introduced in Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 and this behavior is
controlled by a registry key. After 100 times opening/closing Outlook
Express, this dialog may prompt and we need to compact our email and news
message folder. I would explain that like most database programs, Outlook
Express does not actually remove an item from a *.dbx file when you delete
a message. Instead it merely tags the item for removal at a later time,
mainly when you next compact your folders. Until then, the deleted message
is still occupying disk space, which can cause Outlook Express to perform
more slowly when accessing the *.dbx file.
If you want to get rid of this behavior, you can use the following steps to
modify the corresponding registry key:
1. Click Start -> Run
2. Type regedit and click OK
3. Locate the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{identity GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0
4. Right click it and click Export to back it up.
5. In the right pane, double click "Compact Check Count" and set its value
to 0.
In this way, the dialog will disappear until the count of opening/closing
Outlook Express approaches 100 again.
At the same time, I would suggest that you backup Outlook Express data
periodically in case there is any data loss, for example, before you
compact the database. The detailed information is documented in the
following Microsoft KB article:
270670 OLEXP: How to Back Up and Recover Outlook Express Data
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=270670
I hope the information above is helpful.
If anything in my post is unclear, feel free to let me know.
Have a good day!
Thanks & regards,
Winfred Weng
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>With no action on my part, outlook express has started going through a
>lengthy "Clean up and Compaction" routine whenever I shut down the
computer
>or exit OE.
>
>This is a major pain.
>
>How may I shut off this "feature" and why did it start?
>
>Thanks much
>
>Paul Anton
>
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>
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