Re: Service Pack 3 and Compacting Message

Millions of users may not have encountered this behavior, but I have,
numerous people on this site have, and you've provided a list of potentially
conflicting things that may cause this problem, including the most widely
used anti-virus app - Norton. That hardly makes MS look good.

Now that I have that off my chest, does anyone have a solution instead of a
lecture?
--
Pete


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

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
• Windows Live Mail
• Disk defragmentation
• MailWasher

Millions of OE users have installed SP3 without encountering this behavior
after doing so. I know kos I'm one of them and I've installed SP3 on over a
dozen machines.

Not that MS will be interested but...

Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for
Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09. Chat and
e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.

• US:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131

• CA:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131

• UK:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131

• AU:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131

• Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | select
Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


mallard85750 wrote:
Ever since installing SP3, I get frequent messages to compact. I've read
all the threads, and can't find any evidence of a solution yet. Does
anyone know of a solution?


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