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Registry setting to disable auto archive

What is the registry setting to disable the auto archive feature in Outlook 2003?
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Chris

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Hello qwert9505
War1 gave you an interesting article, except it talks about office 98 and 2000.
the value for the other versions of office are as follow:
Office XP (2002) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\
Office 2003 (Your question) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\

you have to keep in mind that in the case you disable the autoarchive, you will disable the everything that has to do with .pst. in other words, if you're not on an exchange server, and you disable it, you won't be able to add additional .pst files since it will be disabled.
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Thanks for everyone's comments. Oddly, if a user has already setup Auto Archiving, and we then disable use the ability to create PST's as War1 suggestions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258277, the e-mail will continue to archive even though it's not an option to selection in Options. The best option is to turn off "Do Aging" by setting it to 0.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Preferences]
"DoAging"=dword:00000000.

I'll split the points.
Chris