Stopping XP from displaying unread messages count on Welcome Screen:
To stop XP from displaying count of unread messages, Open registry and navigate to
[HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentV ersion\UnreadMai l] and
look for the data key "MessageExpiryDays" . If you do not see this key, create one
DWORD key by the name "MessageExpiryDays" . Setting its value to 0 would stop
Windows XP from displaying the count of unread messages.