Welcome Screen message about new message

[pritska]

I use the welcome screen on xp pro.
I use Outlook for email.
I have MSN Messenger 6.0 installed.
Since the installation of msn 6, when i start the computer, it says I have one unread message. This is linked somehow to my hotmail account.
Is there any way to link the uread message option to Outlook, rather than hotmail-through-msn messenger??
Or indeed to disable the "helpful" notification altogether?
Thanks

 

[MSeng]

This will disable the unread mail messages in the Welcome screen:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php?id=1009

 

[Moonrsr]

MSeng, for the 'hotmail' account:
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If you just want to clear the notice and not disable it, there are email accounts under the UnreadMail key that correspond to your hotmail.com account and a key called "MessageCount" that you can set to zero.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\foo@hotmail.com]
"MessageCount"=dword:00000000