How to remove mail notification on login screen?

[joeu2004]

Under my user name on the login screen is the notification "1 unread
mail message". How can I remove the notification?

I do not use either Outlook or Outlook Express to read mail.
Therefore, I do not have accounts set up in those applications and no
way to read the message.

I did set up an OE account temporarily; and that did contain a
"welcome" message -- something to do with WinXP, I think. But I
deleted the "email", and I deleted the account.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Under my user name on the login screen is the notification "1 unread
mail message". How can I remove the notification?

The free Microsoft TweakUI will do this, and many other useful things, for
you.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp (if you have
SP1 or SP2 installed)

or
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe
(if you don't have SP1 or SP2).

 

[joeu2004]

The free Microsoft TweakUI will do this, and many other useful things, for you.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp (if you have
SP1 or SP2 installed)

I would prefer to do this manually, if it is straight-forward enough.
For example, is there something in the registry to delete?

And yes, I have WinXP Pro 2002 SP2. I should have mentioned that in
the first place.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I would prefer to do this manually, if it is straight-forward enough.
For example, is there something in the registry to delete?

"Overview of the mail notification display on the Windows XP Welcome
screen" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304148

 

[Unk]

I would prefer to do this manually, if it is straight-forward enough.
For example, is there something in the registry to delete?

And yes, I have WinXP Pro 2002 SP2. I should have mentioned that in
the first place.

Overview of the mail notification display on the Windows XP Welcome screen
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304148

Start/Run/Regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\[Your E-Mail Address].
In the right pane modify: Message Count, Change it to 0.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail.
In the right pane modify: MessageExpiryDays Change it to 0.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I would prefer to do this manually, if it is straight-forward enough.
For example, is there something in the registry to delete?

Your choice, of course, although I don't understand why. TweakUI is
essentially little more than a a user-friendly, less dangerous
special-purpose Registry editor, and there's no downside of using it for
something like this. No matter how experienced you are editing the registry
manually, everybody is always at some risk of making a mistake, and anything
you can do with TweakUI instead of Regedit is far safer.

 

[joeu2004]

Your choice, of course, although I don't understand why. TweakUI is
essentially little more than a a user-friendly, less dangerous
special-purpose Registry editor, and there's no downside of using it for
something like this. No matter how experienced you are editing the registry
manually, everybody is always at some risk of making a mistake, and anything
you can do with TweakUI instead of Regedit is far safer.

Well, I do find it straight-forward to use regedit for very simple
tasks. But you are probably right about TweakUI. My response was a
little knee-jerk. As an O/S developer myself, I am very familiar with
the value of g-job programs. But I am also aware of the potential
dangers of using such unsupported programs. Although they are written
by experts, their quality depends greatly on the judgment and
thoroughness of the implementer. To be honest, MS programmers have not
endeared me to their "thoroughness", nor their judgment. That said, as
long as TweakUI is straight-forward to use, I would agree that for my
simple purpose, it is probably sufficiently reliable. (Knock on wood!)
What I needed to form that opinion was some sense of the
(non-)complexity of the task I was asking about. To that end, I am
grateful to the other respondents for explaining the simple steps
involved.

Thanks to everyone for your timely responses.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Well, I do find it straight-forward to use regedit for very simple
tasks. But you are probably right about TweakUI. My response was a
little knee-jerk. As an O/S developer myself, I am very familiar with
the value of g-job programs. But I am also aware of the potential
dangers of using such unsupported programs.

True, but there is potential danger in using any program, supported or not.
All programs but the trivial have bugs, and there is always some risk.Tthe
only question is the size of the risk.

Bear in mind that TweakUI has been around for a long time, and been used for
things like this millions of times by millions of people. It's also a
relatively simple program, and doesn't attempt to do anything complicated.
That's not to say the risk is zero, but as things go, the risk is certainly
very small. If doing something like this with TweakUI were to cause a
problem, it would be well-known by now.

Although they are written
by experts, their quality depends greatly on the judgment and
thoroughness of the implementer.

True, but see above.

To be honest, MS programmers have
not endeared me to their "thoroughness", nor their judgment. That
said, as long as TweakUI is straight-forward to use, I would agree
that for my simple purpose, it is probably sufficiently reliable.
(Knock on wood!) What I needed to form that opinion was some sense of
the (non-)complexity of the task I was asking about. To that end, I
am grateful to the other respondents for explaining the simple steps
involved.

Thanks to everyone for your timely responses.

You're welcome. Glad to help..