Friday, February 3, 2012

"To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This may take up to a few minutes." issue

This issue appears when Windows Search 4.0 is installed on Windows XP SP3 and the registry key Compact Check Count in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{identity}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0 is incremented more then 100.

Microsoft doesnt support hotfix or any solution regarding this issue.
Only proposed solution to reset this registry key to 0 using GPO.