Nearly every time I close Outlook 2003, I get an annoying dialogue box
"Would you like to AutoArchive your old items now?" It explains that
AutoArchive moves items you haven't used in a long time to the archive file
C:\Documents and Settings\ChadHarris\LocalSettings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\archive.pst to improve performance and to prevent
your mailbox from growing  too large and creates an AutoArchived Item in the
folders list. I got it five seconds after I loaded Outlook, and before I had
even configured Outlook for any mail accounts,  so the definition of a long
time is a little relative to Microsoft.  A long time meant the second
Outlook was installed and opened.

Presumably you can hit the checkbox "Don't Prompt me again" but how do the
Outlook mavens handle this?  Do you autoarchive every once in a while to
avoid the pending performance hit and just get rid of the box and does
everyone see this box at first by default behavior? I didn't notice this box
in Outlook XP although I'm sure the principle applied to all versions of
Outlook from the first.

Tia,

Chad Harris