Removing "text messages" notification on Home screen

[Gibson6594]

I was talking about this in the official 3125 thread in the smartphone forum, but figured it was worthy of a new thread over hear to try to get more info. I am on a mission to remove the "text messages" notification that is on the home screen in the windows default xml we all love. I only want it there when I have a new text message. I don't want a message telling me I have no messages. It bothers me.

I have made some progress. I have gotten (with help) the text messages notification to go away and only appear when I have a new text message. The problem is when I read the message, the notification stays there and I have to redo the process of removing it again. Get annoying over time.

That process involves a reg edit and a xml edit.

The reg edit is navigating to HKCU\System\State\Messages\sms\Unread and then deleting the "text" key. That makes the text go away. this the part that has to be repeated after each text message.

Next the xml edit removes the empty space that would be there after the text is removed. You have to change the "autoheight" value to true in the clsid section. Here is a post of the xml section I changed

<plugin clsid="{8486CC1E-025B-4888-9C76-048DF7C1787D}" name="msgcount2" height="25" autoheight="true">
<background>
<format state="selected" bgcolor="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT"/>
</background>
<mail account="sms"/>
</plugin>
<plugin clsid="{8486CC1E-025B-4888-9C76-048DF7C1787D}" name="msgcount2" height="25" autoheight="false">
<background>
<format state="selected" bgcolor="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT"/>
</background>
<mail account="activesync"/>
</plugin>
<plugin clsid="{8486CC1E-025B-4888-9C76-048DF7C1787D}" name="msgcount2" height="25" autoheight="true">
<text padding-bottom="5"/>
<background>
<format state="selected" bgcolor="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT"/>
</background>
<mail account="others"/>
</plugin>

So my qestion is, do any of you guys know a way to keep the text messages notification off after I check the messages? Something is happening that is causes in registry key to refresh everytime you get a text message. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Gibson6594]

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