How to cancel outlook express compacting

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• Outlook express Compact view

  I have a lot of emails in Windows XP Outlook Express I want to keep it there.  How to stop this message about compacting my files?  I do not wish to do so and to stop the message.

  If you are talking about a message that says:

  To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This can take up to a few minutes.

  Automatic compaction of Outlook Express files was introduced in Service Pack 2.

  If you are using Windows XP, there is a registry value called:

  Compact Check Count

  It is located in the registry for a key that looks like this:

  \Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0 HKCU\Identities\ {51909A0B-63EE-4EB3-A9A2-7CFA23C1ADCF}

  Whenever you leave OE (not when you open it), the value of the counter increases by an increment.  When the value of the counter gets to 101, the next time you close OE asked you to compress messages.

  There are two things that will increase the value of the counter.

  Exit from Outlook Express will increase the value of the counter.

  If you have Windows Desktop Search installed, it will increase the counter every time it turns that is usually at each reboot.  If you use Outlook Express, and Windows Desktop Search, the counter will be increased more frequently — whenever you close Outlook Express and whenever Windows Desktop Search launches when you restart.

  Even if you are not using Outlook Express and only using Windows Desktop Search, which will further increase the count, so when the counter gets to 100, Windows Desktop Search will prompt you to compress messages during the next reboot.  This is because Windows Desktop Search is configured by default to search for the Outlook Express database if you are using Outlook Express or not.

  No matter how the counter is increased, if you use at least one of these two, eventually you will see this message appear sooner or later.  But you can stop it when you understand.

  You can compress data when prompted (which resets the counter to 0).

  You can change the registry and reset the counter to hand to buy some time until you see the message again.

  If you do not use Outlook Express and only using Windows Desktop Search you can tell Windows Desktop Search to never watch the Outlook Express database (or uninstall the Windows Desktop Search if you do not use).

  Following the best practices for using Outlook Express will prevent you from seeing the message in the first place.  If you see the message that you might want to reconsider how you use Outlook Express and the risks of data store corruption of occasional or misuse (risk behaviours).

  Using Outlook Express or Windows Desktop Search at the same time most people are satisfied to just remove the indexing Option in Windows Desktop Search and keep the meter that is built into Outlook Express so that they will remind to compact the database from time to time.  If you had to sort of do not maintain your Outlook Express files, it would be risky for your messages.

  To remove the Option of Windows Desktop Search index to the database of Outlook Express follow these steps:

  Click Start, settings, Control Panel, Indexing Options, change, clear the box Outlook Express, OK, OK, to save the settings and reboot the system so that the changes will be effective.

  Do, or do not. There is no test.

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• How to stop outlook express does not send emails more because of an email earlier had a wrong address

  Sorry if this is an old topic but I can't find any info about it:

  Sending 6 or 7 emails via outlook express, if you have a bad email address none of the sent emails after will go that they all sit in the Outbox queue behind the bad email. is there any how to make outlook express send other emails and just let the bad email? It is very annoying because I don't get to see the real prospects and know its happened when people say that they did not receive the email

  Is the message with the wrong address still in the Outbox?

  It is a question that is more how your ISP handles these messages. Some will accept the message and send you a Mailer Daemon note that the message has been delivered. In this case, it left your Outbox.

  Other service providers Internet will not accept the message to all who let her in your Outbox and blocks all future messages. There is no setting in OE to get around the policy from your ISP.

  Does that help?

• How to configure outlook express for hotmail = Icannot sending spare part.

  I had to have a laptop but have a problem with it. Hope someone can help.

  I can send emails via hotmail, no problem. But when I try to send attachments the recipient receives an error message saying: could not read.

  When I tried to configure hotmail/outlook, asked me for some program codes | don't have no or understand.

  I'm a newbie to computer jargon. Please help if you can - many thanks.

  Hi Malcolm,

  1. What is the file format of the attachments that you send?

  2. What is the exact error message when you try to configure Outlook Express with your Hotmail account?

  3. are you having the same problem with other accounts?

  4 program are. which codes you referring?

  To open the attachments, the recipient must have the software file installed in the computer. Without the software, recipient may not be able to open the files.

  To set up Outlook Express, I suggest you go through the following articles of the KB.

  How to configure Outlook Express to use a Hotmail account

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/220852

  How to configure Outlook Express 6.0 for Internet mail

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/171163

  If the problem is only with Hotmail, then I suggest you to ask your question in the Forums of Hotmail.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/Forum/Hotmail

• How to convert Outlook Express to Outlook without losing files or existing e-mails and taking my contact list with me?

  original title: change of e-mail

  How to convert Outlook Express to Outlook without losing files or existing e-mails and taking my contact list with me?

  Hi KennethPickering,

  You can refer the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article and check.

   

  How upgrade from Outlook Express to Outlook

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/287073

  Let us know if it helps.

• How to reset Outlook Express?

  HOW TO ERASE ALL THE NAMES AND START OVER IN OUTLOOK EXPRESS?

  I've listed six identities, none work for sending emails via Outlook Express.  How can I clear all of these ID out when I get the message: no current identity?  So how can I load this new identity hot mail to create a new address book?

  You try to use Hotmail in OE? SE these.
   
  How to configure Outlook Express to use a Hotmail account
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/220852

   

  You receive an error message when you use Outlook Express or Outlook to access your Hotmail account

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/878462
  

  Troubleshooting error messages that you receive when you try to send and receive e-mail in Outlook and Outlook Express

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

   

   

  Windows Live Solution Center Hotmail Forum
  http://windowslivehelp.com/forums.aspx?ProductID=1

   

  To remove the identities, click file | Identities | Manage identities. You can delete everything except the one you are. Delete this one you must first create a new one.

• How to copy Outlook Express emails to a folder in My Documents?

  I move from Windows XP to Windows 7 and need to keep my emails I have in Outlook Express.  How to copy Outlook Express emails to a folder in My Documents?

  Open the folder in OE and highlight all messages (Ctrl + A) and then just drag them to the folder.  You can drag the in a WLMail folder later if you wish.

  If you want to do more than a record of messages...

  Transfer of data from Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail:

  For Messages:

  Copy the * ENTIRE * OE message store folder to a flash drive. (Folders.dbx must be included). Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail. Open WLMail and: file | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.

  Location of OE message store:

  In OE: 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.

  For addresses:

  Open the address book in OE and file | Export | Address book (wab) and save it to the desktop. Copy it to a flash drive. Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.

  Open the Contacts list in WLMail, (go |) Contacts in the Menu bar) and the file | Import | Address book (wab) Windows and the point where you saved it.

  Note: If you use a CD or a DVD instead of a flash drive, after placing on the new machine you must remove the read-only attribute in the properties before you import.

  For the account settings:

  In OE: Tools | Accounts, select the account and export it to the desktop. This will be an .iaf file. Copy it to the new computer and WLMail desktop: tools | Accounts and import the settings from the location you saved the.

  WLMail specific help, please use this forum.

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

• How to copy outlook express email and files from one account to another

  Outlook Express

  My husband & I share a computer. It has 1 side and I the other.  Until recent Outlook Express has been available on its side of the computer.  It is the primary identity and I hace an account out of it.  Recent updates have allowed to have Outlook Express on my side of the computer also.  How to copy all my files on his side of the computer & bring to my side?  I am old and computer illiterate...  Also, I don't understand the questions they ask me when I try to open Outlook express on my side of the computer... What is a pop3 server?  How can I know if this is what I have?

  My husband & I share a computer. It has 1 side and I the other.

  1. What is a 'Party '? Different user profiles?
  2. You have your own e-mail address?

  You must copy the entire message of his profile store and put it on the desktop of your profile and then in OE, import from an OE store directory. You can import only the records you want.

  Backup restore &:
  http://www.insideoe.com/backup/

  How to import Outlook Express 5 and OE6 mail folders?
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/how.htm#importOE5

  Setting up email in Outlook Express servers:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/mailserver.mspx

• I asked how to reinstall Outlook Express

  I asked how to reinstall Outlook Express and got a response that I should go to "Control Panel" and open "add/delete programs" then click on Outlook express, but the problem is that Outlook express is not there. It has been deleted. I get the message "file MSOE. DLL could not be initialized when I try to poen outlook express. I need to reinstall it please help

  This is a false error message.  They got an error message and they used it for everything.  You probably have the corruption of folders.dbx and if you delete and then OE opens fine.  See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#7 , but you may need also some message store corruption and so it would make sense to go to the file. Identities and establish a new identity that will give you a store own message and once works fine, using the file | Import | Messages to get the messages from the old identity.

  In addition, its very important to save your messages in this kind of corruption occurs frequently.

  Steve

• How to get outlook express to stop asking Compact messages

  How can I get outlook express to stop asking Compact messages

  * If you use not OE, or you leave compact and always see command prompt, post-bac. You have one from different then I wil describe.*

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact

  Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE works fine and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you do not. When you delete or move messages, the space they used remains until you compact.

  Never touch anything until the compression is finished.* *.

  See:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

  With SP2, Automatic compaction in the background has been removed because of problems he has caused. Now, you will get a prompt to compact after 100 closures of OE, you need to do, and do not touch anything until it's finished. If you compact manually, at your convenience, this will also set the counter to zero. See this for more information:
  http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

  If you are fully patched, you will now see a copy of your dbx files copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. If something goes wrong when compacting, the messages can be easily restored from this backup. A compact manual resets also the counter in the back of the registry to zero now.

  For more information, see the information framed in red here:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

  To keep things running smooth and harden faster:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. It will eventually become corrupt and you may lose mail. 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.

  And backup often.

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

• How to stop Outlook express to compact messages asking

  every time when close Outlook express its demand for compact
  Please solve

  Let it compact. Do not forget to backup messages just to be safe.
   
   
  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE works fine and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you do not. When you delete or move messages, the space they used remains until you compact.
   
  Never touch anything until the compression is finished.* *.
   
  See:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
   
  With SP2, Automatic compaction in the background has been removed because of problems he has caused. Now, you will get a prompt to compact after 100 closures of OE, you need to do, and do not touch anything until it's finished. If you compact manually, at your convenience, this will also set the counter to zero. See this for more information:
  http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact
   
  If you are fully patched, you will now see a copy of your dbx files copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. If something goes wrong when compacting, the messages can be easily restored from this backup. A compact manual resets also the counter in the back of the registry to zero now.
   
  For more information, see the information framed in red here:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
   
  To keep things running smooth and harden faster:
   
  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. It will eventually become corrupt and you may lose mail. 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.
   
  And backup often.
   
  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx 

• How to get Outlook Express to stop and you will invite to compact your emails when closing.

  My wife and I use Outlook Express on our machines at home for e-mail (OE is his primary e-mail program, I use it for a secondary e-mail address).

  When we are done with the program and you want to close, we are always invited to compact mail folders.  I prefer not to do it while I had problems with files compacted in the past.

  Is it possible to change a setting in Outlook Express to stop inciting us to compact the folders of our mail?  I looked through the tools and other areas in Outlook and still found nothing.   Help, please.  Thank you!

  Drew

  You can't turn it off, and failure to compact surely will scan your message store sooner or later.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact

  About file Corruption:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE works fine and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you do not. When you delete or move messages, the space they used remains until you compact.

  Never touch anything until the compression is finished.* *.

  See:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

  With SP2, Automatic compaction in the background has been removed because of problems he has caused. Now, you will get a prompt to compact after 100 closures of OE, you need to do, and do not touch anything until it's finished. If you compact manually, at your convenience, this will also set the counter to zero. See this for more information:
  http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

  If you are fully patched, you will now see a copy of your dbx files copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. If something goes wrong when compacting, the messages can be easily restored from this backup. A compact manual resets also the counter in the back of the registry to zero now.

  For more information, see the information framed in red here:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

  To keep things running smooth and harden faster:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. It will eventually become corrupt and you may lose mail. 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.

  And backup often.

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

  Bruce Hagen ~ MS - MVP [Mail]

• After Outlook Express compacting on request, all emails before March 2010 had disappeared.

  Dear Sir.

  2011-05-30, when I used e-mail on the Microsoft Outlook Express check, asked me to compact the emails in order to free more space.  I have it done, but all the email before March 2011 were missing.  I don't know how to get / find them.

  Help, please.  My email address if * address email is removed from the privacy * or * address email is removed from the privacy *.

  Concerning

  Frankie Tang

  I guess that you don't like my advice after using OE for 12 years, but if you have no copies of your files dbx bak in the trash, then:

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

  There is no other tool that can extract messages from a dbx file that was a clean rag.

• HOW TO REINSTALL OUTLOOK EXPRESS

  I can't receive emails in my outlook express. I can send mail but not receive. my account settings are all correct. I get this error message when I try to download email.

  (an unknown error occurred incoming.yahoo.verizon pop3 .net account: server:incoming.tahoo.verizon .net; protocol, port110, Server (ssl): No.) Error number: 0 x 80000133)

  my thought is to try to reinstall outloook express but I don't know how. I'd appreciate any help.

  my system is microsoft windows xp edition version 2002 service pack 2 premium 111 processor family intel mhz 501

  RAM 512 mhz

  Assuming that strike fault is corrected and that the problem exists...

  Error number: 0x800C0133 = a corrupt Inbox.

  Move any message you want to save to a local folder that you create. Then, remove the problem of Inbox as follows.

  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 | View.

  With OE closed, find the box of Inbox.dbx and delete it. Another will be created automatically when you open OE.

  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.

  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

  Bruce Hagen ~ MS - MVP [Mail]

• How to import Outlook Express 6 directories?

  I am currently using Outlook Express 6 with Microsoft Office 2003. How to copy the address book in Mozilla?

  There is no cut and paste. Simply not possible.
  There are a few changes you can make for Thunderbird to use the windows address book. See http://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/windows-contacts.html

  Note that the windows address book is stored in a WAB file and you will need to move to a new computer because it does not part of Thunderbird. Later versions of Windows do import the contacts folder to the very simple windows point and click action.