Unopened e-mails on Welcome screen

[Brian]

Environment: Office XP and Windows XP Pro.
On the Welcome screen for my userid it says that I have 173 unopened
e-mails. How do I turn this off?

 

[Unknown]

Click start---run---type in regedit--click OK. Go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\Software\Microsoft\Windows|Current version\unread mail
double click the value Message Count in the right pane and change the value
to 0 (zero).

 

[Brian]

Click start---run---type in regedit--click OK. Go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\Software\Microsoft\Windows|Current version\unread mail
double click the value Message Count in the right pane and change the value
to 0 (zero).

Will editing this key turn off the message count permanently or just
until the next time that I open Outlook? My goal is for the Welcome
screen to never tell me how many e-mails are unopened.

 

[Sharon F]

Environment: Office XP and Windows XP Pro.
On the Welcome screen for my userid it says that I have 173 unopened
e-mails. How do I turn this off?

Brian, I use TweakUI for XP on my system to turn off the mail count on the
Welcome screen. One quick check mark in TweakUI and its done. If I decide
later that I want it back, it's simple enough to uncheck that box.

TweakUI is one of the Power toys for XP. This URL links to the version that
is *only* for XP with SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

If you do not have SP1, the earlier version can be found at:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

 

[Brian]

Brian, I use TweakUI for XP on my system to turn off the mail count on the
Welcome screen. One quick check mark in TweakUI and its done. If I decide
later that I want it back, it's simple enough to uncheck that box.

TweakUI is one of the Power toys for XP. This URL links to the version that
is *only* for XP with SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

If you do not have SP1, the earlier version can be found at:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Thank you. This answer will suffice.