E-mail Notification on Welcome Screen

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Greg

My ID no longer displays e-mail notifications at the
Welcom screen. I verified the permissions in the
registry are set properly. I tried the automated
xp_mailnotify utility I saw recommended in another
posting and I even tried the Powertoy Tweak UI, without
luck. All it will tell me is when I am logged on.

I must have turned something off. Can anyone tell me
what it is, and how to turn it back on?

I would be most grateful.

Thanks,
Greg
 
I used this article to help me confirm my permissions
were set properly and they are. I'm still not seeing the
notification. Any other thoughts?
 
Yeah, the article is wrong.
That article only applies to non SP1 Windows XP that have no updates installed.

The feature is handled by an optional addin to current versions of Windows or MSN Messenger. That means if one hasn't installed optional addins then the feature no longer exists on XP. That is how entries on the welcome screen get marooned, Out of the box it enters the mail count but as soon as it starts updating the feature is removed from Windows, so there is nothing to fix the mail count at the time the update was applied. Although the article doesn't say so, the functionally is from messenger which inserts itself into OE.

Therefore the correct advice is to install the optional addin into messenger to bring messenger back to it's default functionally..

I can't remember the name of the addin. I use the original version (which gives hysterical warnings about the urgent need to upgrade, messenger is intro it's 10th or so upgrade since XP was released) but somewhere in current messenger you get the option to install addins. And it's the hotmail addin from memory.
 
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