Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations TouchToneTommy on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
email notification
- Thread starter occas
- Start date
The "Unread Mails" notification appears as a hyperlink below your login name on the Welcome screen. It indicates the number of unread e-mail messages. Clicking the hyperlink will display the number of e-mail messages from each e-mail account. For example:
UserID@msn.com (2)
UserID@hotmail.com (1)
The hyperlink will be displayed only if you have an e-mail client running on your computer that is capable of updating the Welcome screen.
Currently, the only two applications that support this feature are Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Messenger. Other e-mail clients or software like AOL, MSN etc., do not update the Welcome Screen. If you have multiple e-mail accounts, this feature may not work properly. If you want to disable the "Unread Mails" notification feature, follow one of the methods described below:
Method 1:
1. Click Start and select Run.
2. Type Regedit in the Open field.
3. Navigate to the following path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail
4. Double-click the "MessageExpiryDays" value in the right pane and
change the value to 0.
5. Close the registry editor and log off from Windows for the changes
to take effect.
Method 2:
Download and run the registry patch from the following Web site:
The patch will automatically change the value of MessageExpiryDays to 0.
For more information on the Mail Notification display on the Windows XP
Welcome Screen, you may visit the following Web site:
credit to sramesh2k
UserID@msn.com (2)
UserID@hotmail.com (1)
The hyperlink will be displayed only if you have an e-mail client running on your computer that is capable of updating the Welcome screen.
Currently, the only two applications that support this feature are Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Messenger. Other e-mail clients or software like AOL, MSN etc., do not update the Welcome Screen. If you have multiple e-mail accounts, this feature may not work properly. If you want to disable the "Unread Mails" notification feature, follow one of the methods described below:
Method 1:
1. Click Start and select Run.
2. Type Regedit in the Open field.
3. Navigate to the following path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail
4. Double-click the "MessageExpiryDays" value in the right pane and
change the value to 0.
5. Close the registry editor and log off from Windows for the changes
to take effect.
Method 2:
Download and run the registry patch from the following Web site:
The patch will automatically change the value of MessageExpiryDays to 0.
For more information on the Mail Notification display on the Windows XP
Welcome Screen, you may visit the following Web site:
credit to sramesh2k
- Thread starter
- #3
SomeGuy347
Technical User
Is there a way to get it to work with Microsoft Outlook? I liked the feature before I upgraded from Outlook Express, but didn't have enough motivation to ask until now... Thanks in advance,
SomeGuy
SomeGuy
- Status
