Do not show unread message count on Windows Welcome screen

By default, Windows queries Outlook for the unread message count for users and displays the result on the Windows Welcome screen. By enabling this setting, you can change this behavior so that Windows does not provide this feature on the Welcome screen.

Supported on: At least Windows Vista

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook
Value NameDontUpdateFriendlyLogon
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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