Welcome Screen Problem

[Badbird]

When I boot up my system and the welcome screen appears, there is a notice
beneath my account which says I've got one unread e-mail message - when in
fact I don't have any unread e-mail messages at all, except in the Norton
Anti-Spam folder. I've tried deleting those, but the system keeps telling me
I've got unread mail.

How can I fix this so the system won't keep telling me I've got mail that I
don't have?

 

[John]

Hi
Download and run this file
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/unreadmail.reg
download and run this to undo the above
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/unreadmailapply.reg

Regards

John

 

[Badbird]

Thanks John - but I can't 'run' the solution. When I click on your link I
just get a blank page with a registry entry on it - nothing else. Do I just
run 'regedit' and change the value on this entry to match yours?

 

[John]

The link works fine, do you have pop up blockers on?
Anyway, copy the text between the lines below to notepad and save the file
as disablemail.reg
run and this should cure the problem.

 

[Badbird]

John,

Looks like the problem was with Firefox. I tried again in IE and got the
downloads. Thanks!

The link works fine, do you have pop up blockers on?
Anyway, copy the text between the lines below to notepad and save the file
as disablemail.reg
run and this should cure the problem.

--------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\]
"MessageExpiryDays"=dword:00000000
--------------------------------------

Regards

John

When I boot up my system and the welcome screen appears, there is a
notice beneath my account which says I've got one unread e-mail message -
when in fact I don't have any unread e-mail messages at all, except in
the Norton Anti-Spam folder. I've tried deleting those, but the system
keeps telling me I've got unread mail.

How can I fix this so the system won't keep telling me I've got mail that
I don't have?