No 'you have new e-mail'

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ME: A newbie. Just acquired first PC (three months ago) after a fairly long
and chequered life. Desktop. All the bells and whistles, running XP home.
Outlook Express. Broadband connection.
PROBLEM: No email information on:
(a) Welcome screen (there in the begining and then disappeared -something
I did, probably)
(b) Notification area/systray (never there)
I have few emails (lucky me) and either service would satisfy.
TRIED:
(a) Tweek UI download (twice) Nil result.
(b) Systray icon resting very quietly in 'Past Items' section of right
clicked Customised/Customized Notifications window. No amount of 'always
show' changes it's position. Needs to be awoken and put to work. But how?
HOPE: Someone's got an answer that doesn't involve trips to the registry
(wherever that may be) or alterations to long strings of incomprehensibles.
 
No joy. Two responses too 'techie' forme me and my limited experience. With
respect, are you sure this is a 'New Users' group?
I also note that noone anywhere anytime is prepared to discuss the role and
function of the 'Past Items' box in the right clicked "Customized
Notifications" window of the task bar systray
 
Dave,

The role and function of Past Items in Customize Notifications.
By Henry Gibson. :-D

Past Items are items that were, at least at one time, in the Notification
Area. These items or the software that they came from may or not be still
on the machine. If any of the software is not running at the time, but
still on the machine they are considered Past Items because they are not
currently present in the Notification Area. If they are history, as it
were, XP doesn't know that and they need to be removed from the list
manually.

Description of Notification Area Settings
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279771

Disable the SSDP Discovery service, see this...

Notification area icons are missing at startup
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/trayicons.htm

This service does not need to be running.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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No joy. Two responses too 'techie' forme me and my limited experience. With
respect, are you sure this is a 'New Users' group?
I also note that noone anywhere anytime is prepared to discuss the role and
function of the 'Past Items' box in the right clicked "Customized
Notifications" window of the task bar systray
Click to expand...

Dave, perhaps you would find using TweakUI more comfortable for this? It is
one of the Power Toys for XP and can enable/disable the mail notification
on the welcome screen by simply clicking a box. You can download TweakUI
here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
 
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