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• 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]

• 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

• changed provider of wired broadband to another company offering wi - fi access. Outlook Express 10 stopped working. How can I make it work on a wi - fi connection?

  changed provider of wired broadband to another company offering wi - fi access. Outlook Express 10 stopped working. How can I make it work on a wi - fi connection?

  Hi JamesAthanassiou,

  What is the exact error message that you receive when you try to access Outlook Express 10?

  You can try to repair Outlook express and check if it helps:

  An Outlook Express basic repair kit

  Reference: OLEXP: Outlook Express stops responding and your pointer appears as an hourglass

  Hope the helps of information.

• 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 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 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

• Can't get Outlook Express on my new laptop computer

  I just got a new laptop from the company that I work, and I'm trying to make them functional. It has Windows XP with IE8. Is it possible for me to get Outlook Express for my personal email, as if I had before? The email of the company's Outlook and it is on this laptop. I don't want to use it for my personal correspondence.

  Thank you.

  The computer belongs to my employer... The email of the company's Outlook and it is on this laptop. I don't want to use it for my personal correspondence... I need a place to save [my staff] messages.

  Contact your COMPUTER or SysAdmin for help & advice, please. You can ask the following questions:

  1 have I permission to access my personal email using mobile phones belonging to the company?

  2 if so, can I reactivate access to Outlook Express (or install an another mail Client) & use related purposes not to work?

  ~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

• 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 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 transfer outlook express to Windows Live Mail?

  I'm on a quest to transfer e-mails, in the form of a .pst file in my Windows Live email. I have been informed that Outlook Express can import my .pst emails and export them to Windows Live. Now, I'm trying to find a place to get Outlook Express 6. I have a laptop running Windows XP, but it has Outlook no Outlook Express. Can you provide solutions to my problem of conversion?

  Outlook Express is a part of XP. Control Panel | Add/Remove programs. Add/Remove Windows components.

  It should appear in the start menu. All programs. If this isn't the case, create a shortcut.

  Right click on the desktop | New | Shortcut. Go to the * c:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe *. Click next | Click Finish.  It will be a new shortcut on the desktop.

• How to get outlook on my surface? can I download? Buy it in the store? It is already loaded? Thanks for the tips

  How to get outlook on my surface? can I download? Buy it in the store?  It is already loaded? Thanks for the tips. John Harney

  With Windows RT, you need to install apps on the Store Windows and Outlook isn't here right now. Microsoft has created versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote for the ARM in Surface RT processor, but I have not heard of the future prospects for Windows RT.

  Kate

• How to cancel outlook express compacting

  I was invited by Outlook Express if I wanted Compact files, and it might take some time. I was about to leave worrk and time was available so I said yes. I saw my computer (not this one) via gotomypc a few hours later and find emails in my Inbox were deleted to February now. I would like to know if I can cancel it. I had no idea that the compaction meant Delete. Or is there a place on my computer, where I can go to open the info compacted?

  Hello

  You can repair Outlook and check.

  An Outlook Express basic repair kit http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2398839

   

• Pointer/file missing in Outlook Express 6? Not compact or export.

  Under XP with Outlook Express 6. Msgs compacting works (until the last folder?) and then said terminte because the file is in use.  Does not say which folder.  I have not opened - I know.  Do not use to do this.  Have auto update so not sure when something has been corrupted.

  This may be related to another problem.

  When I tried to export these msg on a Vista platform I got msg that an Outlook file is missing.  But the attempt to export error msg does not say which file is missing.

  Any suggestions?

  +++ More details: +++

  Thanks for the quick response.

  I'm the compaction of the command prompt.

  When you say "Click Outlook Express at the top of the folder hierarchy" - How do you get to this point?

  If I can get the Outlook Express on the XP machine compacted, then want to export these message (I have thousands hundreds stored in folders) so I can import then to a Vista machine (my more recent)

  You are compacting via the guest? Try it manually. There is a bug in SP3 that you should have installed years ago which makes the compaction via the quickie on Folders.dbx. You can see what folder it crashes on simply by moving this dialog box from the road entering the blue banner at the top.

  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.

  ****************************'

  In regards to your problem may be related:

  Outlook Express does not work under Vista and Outlook is a totally different program, so that the problem is not related and not even on the same machine.

• Outlook express 6 when sending a message, the message 'hang up' in the Outbox

  Outlook express 6, when sending a message, the message 'hang up' in the Outbox, don't watch not in the box sent but is sent (confirmed) and continues to repeat the send action.

  I use outlook in private mode and a mode of business, private mode gives problems mode business is good
  In private and commercial modes, do you mean different identities? You probably have the corruption of dbx files in the identity of the problem.
   
  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, the files of user OE (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 
   
   
   
  FYI: This is a forum for Windows Live Mail. In the future, you will want to use this forum for Outlook Express.
   
  XP network & online
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_xp-networking?page=1&tab=all