Hello PCS800,
MIKE555 suggestion works as long as you click on the status dialog box while it is downloading your mail or if you have a password prompt on your email account do not enter your password click on the status dialog box select details.
Alternatively, here's the registry key for Outlook 2000.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Options\Mail]
"Always hide dialog"=dword:00000000
0=unhide
1=hide
REGEDIT4 is to be used when creating a reg file so you can simply double click the file to merge into your registry. So you could create 2 files one for hiding and one for unhiding.
HIDE.REG
---START COPYING---
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Options\Mail]
"Always hide dialog"=dword:00000000
---END COPYING---
UNHIDE.REG
---START COPYING---
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Options\Mail]
"Always hide dialog"=dword:00000001
---END COPYING---
You could also get rid of the prompt to merge the registry file by using REGEDIT with the /s parameter.
REGEDIT /S HIDE.REG
REGEDIT /S UNHIDE.REG