Compaction of the emails in Outlook Express - problems

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• I can't get my computer to make appear the email in outlook express after I entered my username and password

  on this site - https://www.brickbodies.com/Citrix/AccessPlatform/auth/login.aspx

  I can't get my computer to bring up my email in outlook express after I entered my username and password on this site - https://www.brickbodies.com/Citrix/AccessPlatform/auth/login.aspx

  I have successfully downloaded client software (launch.ica file). I have a XP system. Help!

  Hi RodneyMcClinton,

  ·         What happens when you try to access outlook express?

  ·         You get the error message?

  ·         Were you able to access emails using outlook express?

  ·         Have you made changes on the computer before this problem?

  Follow the steps in the article.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/813514

  Reply back with the results.

• Display the emails in Outlook Express

  Hello

  I recently installed a Microsoft WebCam with Windows Live Essentials.

  I continue to use Outlook Express to compose, send and receive emails, but record everything I need to keep somewhere else on my PC.

  When I open these saved emails they now open in Windows Live Mail instead of Outlook Express.

  How can I make these emails open in OE as before? Eric

  Right-click on one of them and open with | Choose the program. Select Outlook Express and then check the box: always use this program to open this type of file.

  If still no joy, OE is not defined as your default e-mail client.

  Control Panel | Add/Remove programs. Set Program Access and Defaults. Custom + down arrow | Select the option for Outlook Express.

  Making OE the default e-mail client:
  http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspx

  For the links in the email:
  http://www.oehelp.com/oelnk.aspx

  And:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/?kbid=306098

  Restore OE to e-mail clients list in Internet Options
  http://www.dougknox.com/XP/scripts_desc/oe_client.htm

  If you have installed MS Outlook, see also #13:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13

  "Send to" and e-mail links do not work using Outlook Express as default:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/?kbid=306098

  Bruce Hagen MS - MVP [Mail]

• Cannot see the emails in Outlook Express

  Lately, when I open OE, I am often unable to see the body of my emails in the preview pane and when I open the.  I have to restart my computer in order to read them.

  You may have a damaged identity especially if it's the default main identity. File | Identity | Add the new identity. Create a new one and try it. If all goes well, you can import your messages and address book from the old identity and delete it.

  Note: Do not use the main word in the name of the new identity.

  ******************************************

  General precautions for Outlook Express:

  Do not archive mail in the receipt or sent items box. Create your own user-defined folders and move messages you want to put in them. Empty the deleted items folder daily. Although the dbx files have a theoretical capacity of 2 GB, I recommend all a 300 MB max for less risk of corruption.

  Information on the maximum size of the .dbx files that are used by Outlook Express:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/?kbid=903095

  After you're done, followed by compacting your folders manually while working * off * and do it often.

  Click Outlook Express at the top of the the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work offline (or double-click on work online in the status bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the processors and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

• After compaction all my emails in Outlook Express 8 I am able to receive more emails, but how can I recover lose them emails?

  original title: IE * compaction

  After compaction in OE8 I lost all emails from the Inbox since August 2010 to present.  I can now receive incoming e-mails, but is it possible to recover my lost mails?  If so, how?  Thank you.

  There is no such thing as OE8 or IE compaction, but I think that's what you ask

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  About file Corruption:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Recovery methods:

  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.

  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.

  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.

  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.

  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.

  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:

  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx

  And see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

• Compaction of the closure of Outlook Express files

  Outlook Express asks to compress files when the application is closed... It works through all my folders, but when it gets to the end, the 'Files' file, it stops with this error Message: "file is currently being used by Outlook Express or by another application"... and close the operation without compress all files.   Any suggestions?

  Compaction hangs on Folders.dbx after installation of the SP3 for XP

  It is a known problem and will never be solved. As a result, compact your folders manually. The counter will be reset, and a compact manual won't hang it.

  Click Outlook Express at the top of the the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work offline (or double-click on work online in the status bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed.

  If you have the habit of compaction before 100th closing, (i.e. once a week or more), you will never see the prompt again.

  Bruce Hagen ~ MS - MVP [Mail]

• Cannot access the internet through the addresses in the emails from outlook express

  Any URL sent in the e-mail via Outlook Express will not access the website.

  As nothing happens when you click on the link?
   
   
  Hyperlinks do not work in Outlook Express or in Word (revised 29-Apr-09)
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/823301
   
  Hyperlinks do not work in Outlook Express after you put upgraded to IE7 [or IE8] (revised 29-Apr-09)
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929867
   
  If still no joy:
   
  With the permission of MVP Frank Saunders. [RIP]
   
  If nothing happens when you click on a link:
  Open Windows Explorer or on the control panel.
  Go to tools | Folder options | Types of files.
  Scroll to [NONE] URL: HyperText Transfer Protocol (NOT the shortcut URL: Internet) and select it.
  Click Edit or advanced, depending on your version of Windows.
  Choose 'open '.
  Click on change.
   
  "Application used to perform action" should read:
   
  "C:\PROGRAM may EXPLORER\iexplore.exe" - nohome (check the path to)
  Iexplore.exe to ensure that it is correct and use the double quotes).
   
  DDE should be checked and in the boxes below, you should have:
   
  #1:
  « %1 »,,-1,0,,,
  #2
  IExplore
  #3 (white)
   
  #4
  WWW_OpenURL
   
  Protocol URL: HyperText Transfer with Privacy should be the same.
   
  If the foregoing is correct, uncheck the box: use DDE.
   

• How I try to change the size of the scroll bar in the emails to Outlook Express 6.0?

  When I open an e-mail in Outlook Express, the scroll bar on the left side is so thin and small, that I can't use the scroll bar.  The up and down arrows are so small, I can't get the arrow in the box.

  The scroll bar should be on the right, not the left. Are you sure you are using the correct screen resolution?
   
  You can try a new identity and see if that makes a difference.
   
  You may have a damaged identity especially if it's the default main identity. File | Identities | Add the new identity. Create a new one and try it. If all goes well, you can import your messages and address book from the old identity and delete it.
   
  Note: Do not use the main word in the name of the new identity.

• Try to restore the emails (in Outlook Express 6.0) that have been deleted after compaction.

  After compacting was done several of my recent emails have been deleted.  This never happened before.  I went to the trash and click on restore for each of them, but none are returned in the received or sent items box.  I know they are there somewhere but don't know how to find them.  Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get back them?

  Hello

  You can get the reference from here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670

• Not able to receive, delete or move the emails in Outlook Express

  Cannot move emails to another folder.  Cannot delete emails.  Cannot receive emails.  If I try to open e-mail messages that are already in the Inbox, I get a message that it could not send a notice of receipt of the message, which I'm sure that spammers never asked.  I can send emails, but that's all.

  Sync replaces send/receive. You will find WLMail help here.

  Windows Live Mail Forum
  http://windowslivehelp.com/forums.aspx?ProductID=15

• Bad year mentioned in the emails on Outlook Express.

  Original title: outlook

  Contact your e-mail provider.  They might have a machine that is incorrectly set.

  Steve

• Email Outlook Express problems

  How to fix two computers that share the same e-mail address. He worked for the two computer to receive and open all the emails on Outlook Express.

  Now if a computer opens the email, the other computer doesn't have email to open.

  How should I do?

  If both computers use the same e-mail address, on both machines:

  Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced - Check: leave a copy of messages on the server.

  On a single computer only, make sure to delete messages after X days to satisfy your allocated space that you get from your server.

• Can't read my emails in Outlook Express more as they now appear as attachments of Firefox Web page, how do I rectify this?

  I use outlook express to download my e-mails from gmail and used to be able to read the content of the email in Outlook Express. The content of my emails has now disappeared and been replaced by two attachments, a Firefox HTML, which has the content of the email and a text file that also has one content. How can I find the original format of Outlook express?
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• I have problems when sending emails on Outlook Express (Windows XP Home) told in the Outbox, even if they were sent. What can I do?

  I have problems when sending emails on Outlook Express (Windows XP Home) told in the Outbox, even if they were sent.  What can I do?

  You have apparent dbx file corruption.

  Spend most of your messages out of the Inbox and then create new folders to send and sent items box after having moved the messages you want to save to a local folder that you create.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, Win2K & Win2K3 the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.

  With OE closed, find the DBX files for the items in the Outbox and sent and delete them.  New ones will be created automatically when you open OE.

  After you're done, followed by compacting your folders manually while working * off * and do it often.

  Click Outlook Express at the top of the the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work offline (or double-click on work online in the status bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed.

  General precautions for Outlook Express:

  Do not archive mail in the receipt or sent items box. Create your own user-defined folders and move messages you want to put in them. Empty the deleted items folder daily. Although the dbx files have a theoretical capacity of 2 GB, I recommend all a 300 MB max for less risk of corruption.

  Information on the maximum size of the .dbx files that are used by Outlook Express:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/?kbid=903095

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
  http://thundercloud.NET/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm

  Note that for some AV programs, it may be necessary to uninstall the program and reinstall in custom Mode and uncheck analysis when the option is the result of e-mail messages.

  Compact often as specified above.

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

• Outlook Express problem - when I receive an email in Outlook Express, it goes immediately into the "Deleted items" folder

  When I receive an email in Outlook Express in Windows XP, it will immediately in the "deleted items" folder  How can I fix it?

  Thank you

  This can happen only if you have a message in place rule or the sender entered blocked senders. Carefully review these two areas and any spam program, you may have.