Dear Mike~~

Very useful reply.

There's no other program using MSIMN.exe-- it's me.
I must open/close the program 10 times a day -- closing it
while I run other amateur radio-based programs on the laptop
with its 12 USB ports running all manner of TCP/ip programs..

So.. every 10 days this annoying 'reminder' comes up.

So-- here's the question.
Exactly what keyboard commands do I give to reset the counter?
I'm not a registry edit expert.
Is there a command to eliminate the counter?!

*****
On a longer term issue, Microsoft should consider reversing this
SP2 'addition' for its users.

Best regards,
Bill Barron

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

Fro more on the key, see:

OE Compacting
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

If you set the key to 0, that will temporarily stop the prompt, until OE
has been opened and closed 100 ore times.

That it keeps coming up indicates that something on your system is
repeatedly opening and closing OE (MSIMN.EXE). To solve the problem,
you need to determine what is causing that.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm