E-mail Notification on Welcome Screen

[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

[Taurarian]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304148
Overview of the Mail Notification Display on the Windows XP Welcome Screen


"Greg" > wrote in message
...
> 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

[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?
>-----Original Message-----
>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304148
>Overview of the Mail Notification Display on the Windows
XP Welcome Screen
>
>
>"Greg" > wrote in message
...
>> 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
>
>.
>

[David Candy]

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.
--=20
David Candy
http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros/
http://www.simtel.com/pub/pd/18669.html
"Greg" > wrote in message =
...
> I used this article to help me confirm my permissions=20
> were set properly and they are. I'm still not seeing the=20
> notification. Any other thoughts?
> >-----Original Message-----
> >http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=3D304148
> >Overview of the Mail Notification Display on the Windows=20
> XP Welcome Screen
> >
> >
> >"Greg" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> 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
> >
> >.
> >