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• My Outlook Express has all of a sudden suddenly stopped to save my sent items. I checked the settings, and it is set to save. What could be wrong?

  This is a computer that I use for business - so it is essential that I have copies of the stuff I send.

  Any suggestions will be appreciated.

  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, 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

• Unable to send email in Outlook Express 6 all of a sudden.

  Unable to send email in Outlook Express 6 all of a sudden.  I am running Windows XP.  All of a sudden one day I was not able to send e-mail, but I can receive. When this happened, I got "an unknown error has occurred. "" Account: 'Alan ntl', server: 'smtp.ntlworld.com', Protocol: SMTP, server response: ' 421 aamtaout04 - winn.ispmail.ntl.com connection refused [82.26.72.74] ', Port: 465, secure (SSL): Yes, Server error: 421, error number: 0x800CCC67.

  However after reading your answers of Oct 2010 I changed port 587 and got "the connection to the server failed. Account: 'Alan ntl', server: 'smtp.ntlworld.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 587, secure (SSL): Yes, Socket error: 10060, error number: 0x800CCC0E "... Please help

  It is highly unlikely that removing OE and add it again will help it.

  The message "connection refused" says unambiguously that the server aamtaout04 - winn.ispmail.ntl.com does not accept connections on port 465.  So either you have the wrong specified server, you have the wrong port specified or the server actually has a problem, despite what tells you the mail service provider.

• my real player has all-of-a-sudden started download videos from youtube in mp4. No flv as previously. How can I fix it?

  I have been using real player for some time and was able to download youtube videos.  My real player has all-of-a-sudden started download videos from youtube in mp4. No flv as previously. How can I fix it?

  Real Player download all videos in mp4, it depends on the video that you download.

  To me, it seems as Real Downloader download videos in mp4 more often rather than a flv. recent files.
  If the video you downloaded is a mp4 file you can still play it in another media player like Windows Media Player, but for me, most downloaded with Real Downloader mp4 files have no sound when played in Windows Media Player.
  As you probably know, you can buy Real Player Plus for read, trim or convert mp4 files in RealPlayer. If my guess is that it's way to Real to get people to buy Real Player Plus. Or maybe not, I had this same problem and I don't know what the cause is at the present time.

• When Outlook Express Mail compose the cursor suddenly starts moving across the page.

  When I'm composing an e-mail on Outlook Express if I stop for a moment the cursor starts to move across the page. I can stop by clicking 'End', but soon he begins to do it again.

  My OS is Windows XP and my version of OE 6. IE version is 8.

  If it is a laptop, make sure that you not brush your hand against the touchpad. If it isn't, try a new identity.

  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.

• Can't send emails in Outlook Express 6 all of a sudden

  I am running Windows XP.  All of a sudden one day I'm not able to send e-mail, but I can receive.  I get an error message that says... "The connection to the server failed. Account: "mail.comcast.net', server: 'SMTP.comcast.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, secure (SSL): Yes, Socket error: 10060, error number: 0x800CCC0E"... Please help!

  Change the SMTP port to 587 and ensure that: my server requires authentication is enabled.

  How can I set up/configure Outlook Express, Windows Mail & Windows Live Mail to E-mail from Comcast?
  http://www.Comcast.com/customers/FAQ/FaqDetails.ashx?ID=2288

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• Firefox crashes on opening a few seconds. has all of a sudden started several weeks ago and I have not been able to get since. I reinstalled but update did not work. It will not be open even in safe mode. Help!

  Firefox crashes on opening a few seconds. That started everything suddenly a few weeks ago, and despite several attempts to every day, I still cannot load firefox application. It crashes immediately on startup every time anything and journalist accident happens. I studied all the articles and followed their suggestions. I installed the latest version of firefox and still get the same results. I can't even open firefox in safe mode.

  Heather, not sure I can help, I'm not a Mac user, but I'll have a look at the crashIDs that you provided.

  Update:

  • Crash report ID: [6326058f-1fca-4d4d-a080-af8902120119]
    • signature: TFont::CreateFontEntitiesForFile (const char *, bool, TSimpleArray < TFont * > &, bool, short, char const *)
  • Crash report ID: [69534b6f-7662-4c09-bf2e-39fff2120104] signature as above

  There are very few reports recent crash with this signature, they could even be your plant. If you follow the suggestions in the article I linked above there is not much that can be done easily. You should try discount the possibility that the cause is malware by scanning with several updated tools.

  Malware controls
  Have you seen and followed the advice

  • Fix Firefox problems caused by malicious software
  • the first step trying to detect malware, a typical suggestion is this message from the-edmeister /questions/914980 #answer - 302372

  Clean reinstall it
  If you find no malware, it can be interesting to try a new re - install and a clean profile, none of them are simple and must be done with care, so first try malware scans, those who will take a while to sort.

  Rather a last resort: fill out a bug report
  
  If you are ready to try to answer the inevitable questions and have an email account anonymous, that you can use for recording, you can follow the link from the report above and click on 'report' to create a bug report on the crash.

• I opened outlook express and all my emails and I created folders disappeared. Are they gone forever? Ideas?

  I opened outlook express and all my emails and I created folders disappeared. Are they gone forever? Ideas?

  It looks like a new OE has been created? File | Identities. Y at - it a list?
   
  If this is not the case, look for your message store folder. While following the path, when you get to the identities, see if there is a second appearing, and if this identity has for folders dbx files you are missing.
   
  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.
   
  The path to the message will be very similar to this:
   
  C:\Documents and Settings\Your User of utilisateur\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\ {long string of letters & numbers} \Microsoft\Outlook Express

• Connected to Outlook Express and all my existing e-mails have disappeared

  original title: Outlook Express

  Connected to Outlook Express and all my existing e-mails have disappeared.  Only those today showed.  I tried using the search of .eml files and get no results.  Can anyone help with location on the hard drive the .eml files?  Thank you.

  You won't find files for Outlook Express .eml. They are stored in the format of data in the form of .dbx files.

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  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

• mail electronic outlook express pop - up-"outlook express has encountered a problem and the need to close.

  I am running XP.

  When I select an email or try to create an e-mail, I get the Outlook Express "pop up" where it is said

  "outlook express has encountered a problem and need to close... Sorry ".  Asks me if I want to send a message

  for Microsoft, when I click on the option, the screen freezes and I have to type the keys del Alt, control, in order to free

  and end of the task.

  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.

• My older version of outlook express has several problems, will be these imported into a new account in thunderbird

  My older version of Outlook Express has acquired several problems. It is time for a change, these errors will be imported into a new account in Thunderbird. I hope that everything is based on the conviction that the two programs are completely different.

  You don't say what problems you have with OE, then how everyone has to guess?

  There is no such thing as a "Thunderbird account. You do not have an account with your email provider. To access this account, you can use OE, or Thunderbird.
  But Thunderbird isn't your e-mail provider.

• When I opened outlook express Inbox, all messages have been deleted, please help restore the same

  When I opened outlook express Inbox, all messages have been deleted, please help restore the same

  Go to view | Current view | Show all messages to make sure that you have just selected 'Hide read messages.

  If this does not help, check your Recycle Bin, the bak files which are dbx files, you can restore backups.  See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

  If this does not help, then you will probably need my program DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/), which will extract the messages from individual dbx files, and if messages are no longer in the files, it can extract from the disc itself.

  Steve

• I do not use Outlook Express at all. I'm still getting compression pop up and its very annoying. How can I get rid of the compression jump upward?

  I do not use Outlook Express at all. I'm still getting compression pop up and its very annoying. How can I get rid of the compression jump upward?

  Hi CamiSugiyama,
   
  Here's a similar post which addresses this problem. Follow the suggestions given by "Bruce Hagen" to solve this problem:
   
  Outlook Express compression pops up

• Outlook express has suddenly started asking for the password and does not accept it.

  I use Outlook express, rather than signing in via Hotmail.com. I see all of my emails upward to 3 April, but not since. and I can't send it today. It keeps asking me for a password for pop3 and smtp direct password which I know that I have not changed, but it does not accept the (he rememberes them anyway). What has changed in the last 2 days?

  Hi Teresa,.

  Try to login from the Web site and see if your password is work www.mail.live.com

  If you are able to check emails from the Web site, and then type the same password in outlook when you are prompted.

  I hope this helps.

• Outlook Express has suddenly stopped saving e-mail sent to my folder "Sent items".

  It's never happened before many years of using Outlook Express. The box 'Save a copy of the messages in the 'Sent items' folder' under Options, send is checked. I tried unchecking and then check that box without success. I also tried to uninstall and reinstall Outlook Express without success. Someone has an idea of what is wrong or how to fix this?

  It's never happened before many years of using Outlook Express. The box 'Save a copy of the messages in the 'Sent items' folder' under Options, send is checked. I tried unchecking and then check that box without success. I also tried to uninstall and reinstall Outlook Express without success. Someone has an idea of what is wrong or how to fix this?

  I just discovered that my computer's clock had accidentally got into withdrawal per month. I have reset the clock and now sent emails go properly in the 'Sent items' folder Furthermore, all e-mails I thought were missing were in the "Sent items" folder as well - they were just with e-mails from last month. The 'Sent items' folder has not been corrupted. Operator error. Duh!