Hide Unread Email Messages Notification on XP Logon Welcome Screen

After Windows XP boots up to Welcome Screen or Logon Screen for user to log on to Windows desktop, there may be a message on the Logon Welcome page that user have certain number of unread mail messages, together with the email address of the account. For example, “1 unread email messages”. The unread email messages count also appear when system is locked, and user is required to enter the password to enter the desktop again.

The count of number of unread messages is generated for each users individually, and normally will be shown after user starts to use Microsoft’s related email clients or services, such as Microsoft Outlook and Windows Live Hotmail. The count takes into account all unread messages from programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, and etc, depending on how these programs are used and setup.

It’s pretty useless and something annoying to display the number of unread mail messages available, especially when it also display user’s email address together. It’s possible to to remove these list and count of unread email messages on the Welcome Screen page with the following tricks.

The most easy way is to use TweakUI PowerToys, which the TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe setup file can be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center. After installing the TweakUI, run the program, locate and select Logon in the left pane. Then click on Unread Mail. Unselect and uncheck the Show unread mail on Welcome screen option. Users can choose whether to apply the new setting (without unread email count) only to user’s account or for all users on the computer.

It’s also possible to modify the registry directly to get rid of the unread email messages count on Logon Welcome Screen. To do so, run Registry Editor (regedit.exe), and the navigate to the one of the following registry keys:

For current logged on user:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail

For all users on the computer:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail

On the right pane, find a value data named MessageExpiryDays. If it’s not found, create a new DWORD key named MessageExpiryDays. Set the value of “MessegaExpiryDays” to 0, and save the setting.

Disable Unread Mail Messages

Once disabled, unread emails count notification will no longer be displayed.


12 Responses to “Hide Unread Email Messages Notification on XP Logon Welcome Screen”

  1. Zissler
    May 14th, 2009 03:18
    12

    Just download Tweak UI.
    And just unmark “Show unread E-mail”
    No Tweaking of the regisrty is needed.

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

    Rock on!

    //Zissler

  2. Mandi
    May 5th, 2009 06:39
    11

    Thanks a lot for the reply. It was very useful.
    Thanks again. Bye!

  3. Snorri
    February 5th, 2009 08:10
    10

    Thanks! Came in handy after I bought a netbook that came with Windows XP, being by now a 7 user on my other computer.

  4. suchakradhar
    January 30th, 2009 16:15
    9

    Thanks a ton !!!!

    I even uninstalled my outlook 2007 annoyed by the messages which would never go, The answer was simple. guess i have reinstall it again.

    thanks again to the contributors.

  5. Scott
    January 30th, 2009 03:41
    8

    I ran into the same problem with the 1 unread email count after reinstalling XP and Microsoft Office Outlook on my PC. After several days of turmoil I found that the unread email was actually an unread email in Outlook Express from the Microsoft Team. Go figure. Note that the email was in Outlook Express and not Microsoft Office Outlook, Anyways I opened Outlook Express and marked the email as read. No more problems.

  6. Sat Heb
    October 2nd, 2008 09:10
    7

    Thanks! Great work! very useful! One small question though. There are 4 users on our XP at home and only one user got this “unread mail” tag although the other users too have enough and more unread messages. Secondly, the unread message was for a yahoo mail account. Could you please explain this. Thanks once again!

  7. Pieter
    September 29th, 2008 16:09
    6

    whoever wrote this, thanks so much.
    a very annoying thing about xp.

    LOVE YA.
    XX

  8. Frog
    September 20th, 2008 02:37
    5

    Thanks for the post.

    I have one question though: i recently created a Live ID account and then i deleted it (i only needed it to test something). But Windows keeps showing that e-mail on logon (with the “1 unread email” message).

    Where is Windows getting that information, since I deleted ths account? Where is this info stored in my computer and how do i remove it?

    Thanks!

  9. wewe
    September 17th, 2008 22:53
    4

    danke sehr viel

  10. Dan
    July 11th, 2008 23:03
    3

    Awesome, thanks so much.

  11. Danny from SC
    July 11th, 2008 04:51
    2

    This was so easy to do. Good job guys and thanks!

  12. eddie
    July 3rd, 2008 11:09
    1

    thank y u u guys rock

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