Welcome Screen Messages not wanted

[Guest]

Can anyone help with this problem?

I have XP home, and when I boot my computer, and the "Welcome Screen"
appears with my user accounts shown (administrator accounts, limited
accounts, etc..) underneath one of my limited accounts appears some text, a
message that states that I have "two unread emails".

This is not the case, I'm using outlook express, and there are not unread
emails in any of my email accounts, yet this message constantly appears when
I boot and the welcome screen appears.... Really annoying!

Any tricks or techniques to get rid of this? ? ?

HELP?

thanks for any support,
Robert
12/09/05

 

[Guest]

Download TweakUI.
Run the program, and disable the "Show unread mail count on welcome screen"
option. I can't remember where abouts in the program the option is, but it's
easy enough to find.

 

[Gilles RONSIN]

Robert <[email protected]>, le ven. 09 déc. 2005
09:47:02, écrivait ceci:

Hi,

I have XP home, and when I boot my computer, and the "Welcome
Screen" appears with my user accounts shown (administrator
accounts, limited accounts, etc..) underneath one of my limited
accounts appears some text, a message that states that I have "two
unread emails".

This is not the case, I'm using outlook express, and there are not
unread emails in any of my email accounts, yet this message
constantly appears when I boot and the welcome screen appears....

Have you try to keep cursor on message "unread mails" ? It shows you
what is the source of the message.

Any tricks or techniques to get rid of this? ? ?

my script http://gilles.ronsin.free.fr/fichiers/unread.vbs can help
you.

 

[Guest]

Thanks T.Lake,

I'll try that and post back on success or not. I'd prefer to not have to
use tweakUI, but as a last resort, it may be the only ticket.

It's pretty bad when Microsoft can't or won't address issues like this in
their help or support files.

 

[Guest]

Hi Gilles,

I have put my cursor over the text. It states that I have two unread
messages in from an erroneous email address I had mistakenly set up when
installing Outlook Express. Since the text references an incorrect and
non-existing email address, and since I've typed in the wording exactly and
did a search of my drive and can't find that exact text anywhere, I don't
know what to do.....Any ideas, ??????

Help????

 

[Alan Edwards]

Disable Unread Mail on the Welcome Screen (Line 100)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

....Alan

 

[Guest]

Thanks T.Lake, that did the trick...

Robert

 

[Gilles RONSIN]

Hi Gilles,

I have put my cursor over the text. It states that I have two
unread messages in from an erroneous email address I had
mistakenly set up when installing Outlook Express. Since the text
references an incorrect and non-existing email address, and since
I've typed in the wording exactly and did a search of my drive and
can't find that exact text anywhere, I don't know what to
do.....Any ideas, ??????

Help????

Ok. Just use my script and choose kill button in front of bad mailbox.
This will remove this obsolete value.