Just curious if there is a fix for this. Every time my computer goes into sleep mode, when I restart, I get a message with XP telling me I have a certain amount of messages. Its always inaccurate. Is there a way to either remove the message or perhaps get the reading to be accurate (with zero messages)? I use XP on two seperate computers, and I get the inaccurate message on both.

Side question, anyone know how to remove the notification for "unused icons" with XP? I get tired of seeing it periodically pop up.

Thanks!

"msconfig", get anything related to windows messanger out of the start up and I think that solves it.

I think somewhere their is an option that you can remove the notification of the messages. At this time i don't remember where it is. Andrews solution might work also.

Look thru these links....

http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop20.htm
http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_turn_off_the_unread_message_count_on_the_ windows_xp_login_screen.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxppu/toc.html
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/25803/25803.html

They might have something that will help.

Still seems that disabling something in startup will probably have the best effect.

I don't have any trouble with that because I use Mozilla Thunderbird. Nothing since i started using that has ever popped up.