Outlook Express in the "compact" XP files I lost all messages in folders to recycle as per the BAK doc

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• I'm having a problem with Outlook Express 6, where when I connect, it downloads all messages for all addresses in the Outlook profiles. Help!

  Need help

  You use OE and Outlook to mail?
   
  Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced - Check: leave a copy of messages on the server.
   
  If you do not use the two, make sure that the setting is the same in Outlook, but in a program only, make sure to delete messages after X days to satisfy your allocated space you get from your server, but leave enough time to retrieve messages in the two programs.

• Can I transfer my file to outlook express on the desktop?

  I currently have outlook express on my laptop.  I recently purchased a top of desktop with Windows 7.  Can I transfer my file to outlook express on the desktop?

  Windows Live Mail is the replacement of the so-called for Outlook Express and Windows Mail for Vista. Personally, I can't stand it and use Thunderbird, but it's my preference, and who knows, you might like WLMail.
   
   
  Windows Live Mail
  http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
   
  Thunderbird
  http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-us/Thunderbird/
   
  Support for Windows Live Mail can be found here.
   
  Windows Live Mail Forum
  http://windowslivehelp.com/product.aspx?ProductID=15
   
  Others include, Pegasus, Eudora, Opera and much more.
   
   
  If you go with WLMail, here are the instructions. More detailed information is available in the forum WLMail.
   
   
  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.
  
   

• Outlook Express will launch is no longer from the desktop. Tried to download a file to reinstall Outlook Express but the error message indicating that a later version of Microsoft Explorer is installed

  Outlook Express will launch is no longer from the desktop. Tried to download a file to re install outlook express but error indicating that a later version of Microsoft Explorer is installed.

  Is there a file with Outlook Express and the appropriate version of the Explorer on which can be downloaded.

  Do I have to uninstall Explorer 8, I'm sure I do, and I would then be able to use the file? I have download a file called ie6setupOe that has been 492 kb that I thought was Outlook Express. It is a .exe Win32 Cabinet Self Extractor file

  I'm on the wrong track thinking?

  Larry

  * original title - trying to re install Outlook Express__ *.

  Bruce; Thanks for all the advice and be so useful. Now we have all this work and has not lost a large part of all that we could not re create. Larry. I voted and I hope he did publish.

• By using only the keyboard, how can I create an email using Outlook Express, have the files of "painting" in the body of the email

  original title: only the keyboard

  By using only the keyboard, how can I create an email using Outlook Express, have the files of 'paint' in the body of the email, also registered another Web page?

  Hi r. Gull,.

  You can view using Outlook Express keyboard shortcuts, documented in:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/proddocs/en-us/mail_hotkeys.mspx?mfr=true

  I hope this helps.

• messages lost in Outlook Express in the month of September 2011.

  messages lost in outlook express in the month of September 2011 and they reappeared last week, then again disappeared. How to restore the mEssages'.

  1. View | Current view. Is checked all show messages?
  2. What is a pop3 account?

  If the answer is Yes, then the two main reasons 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

  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

• Outlook Express wants to compact my messages whenever it ends. How do I stop this?

  Outlook Express wants to compact my messages whenever it ends.  How do I stop this?

  I advise all to first understand what is happening and then decide how best to treat for your environment:

  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 (increment is not a verb so you can't increment something and a counter cannot be incremented).  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 works which is usually at least 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 OE 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).

  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.

  After the Outlook Express recommended for use (which would include the normal database maintenance) 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).

  Most people using Outlook Express or Windows Desktop Search agree 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.

  Here is an article with some other information:

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

• Have Wdws XP using Outlook Express. Recently had work on computer. All of a sudden all the old emails deleted coming on Inbox. (Over 2500) Back in early 2010. Electronic mail stops. What is the problem?

  I have Wdws XP and using outlook Express.

  Work done recently on my computer, and now all the old emails that I had deleted in early 2010 are coming into my Inbox, (over 2500). I guess it is the overload that stops at the email, so I can't receive new messages.

  Thases e-mails had been permanently deleted, supposedly. From which they come, and how can I fix it?

  You had a frame that says "leave a copy of messages on the server. There is another setting that says "remove when deleting server ', but it was not selected.

  Outlook Express knows the messages that he has already recovered, but this information is a lost if you, for example, recreate your e-mail account. Then all messages go down again if they were left on the server.

  If the extraction has ceased, it might be because...

  one) you forced by cancellation or may be disconnected from the internet (in which case there are more to come), or

  (b) he finished, in which case old emails cannot be retrieved again (unless you are replicating what just happened), all mail must be picked up

  To avoid what is happening in the future...

  (a) according to the State of the parameters mentioned above, you may need to delete messages via webmail, and/or

  (b) to change the settings

  To change the settings...

  • Click on tools
  • Click on accounts...
  • Click on the Mail tab
  • Highlight (click) your e-mail account and then click on the properties button
  • Click the Advanced tab

  3 background settings are what control the things...

  "Leave a copy of messages on the server.

  "Remove from server after x days.

  "Remove the server after deleting in" deleted items "

  Adjust them as see fit you.

  Tricky

• Code Error 0x800ccc0d when try to open the address book from Outlook Express or the web link.

  Original title: errors to open the address book in outlook express.

  When I open the address book for my Outlook Express or the web link, I get a message that Outlook Express has been removed, SMTP host could not be found and I also get the Error 0x800ccc0d code. Help, please.

  Hello

  You did it changes on your computer before this problem?

  You can follow this link & check if the problem persists.

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

  Hope the helps of information.
  Please post back and we do know.

• I have outlook express and the spell checker is for the French. How can I change this?

  I have outlook express and the spell checker is for the French. How can I change this?

  You no longer have the correction spell checking capabilities in some languages in Outlook Express 6.0 after you install the Microsoft Office 2007 or Office 2010 system
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/932974

  Outlook Express cannot use the check spelling of MS Word in Office 2007 or newer. A free spell-checking the download is the easiest way to get around this.

  Vampirefo spell check.

  Download from Major Geeks:
  http://www.MajorGeeks.com/download.php?Det=2952

  Or upload it to SnapFile:
  http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/spelloe.html

  You wanted TinySpell or. (Check spelling while typing).

  Download it here:
  http://www.tinyspell.M6.NET/

  Australian English spell checking
  (Also suitable for other English speaking countries).
  http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oespellcheck/

  If you have an earlier version of Office, see this:
  http://www.Outlook-tips.NET/archives/2006/20061228.htm

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

• I had a problem with Outlook express for about two weeks I canoe delete most messages

  I have outlook express do not know which edition, but I have family xp I can't delete most messages for about Patrick weeks could have been the last automatic update, how do I fix this I tried to use a recent patch, and he said: I didn't need it im guessing that I need to cancel the update

  It wasn't the update. You have corruption of dbx files.

  Spend most of your messages out of the Inbox (if you can) and move the messages you want to record off deleted items, and sent items. Locate the OE message store and then close 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.

  With OE closed, find the Deleted Items.dbx and Sent Items.dbx files and delete them. New files will be created automatically when you open OE.

  Compact all folders as described below.

  To avoid this in the future:

  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

• Outlook Express wants to compact files several times per day

  I deleted most of my Deleted messages and sent folders and I greeted the OE to go through the process of compaction, but happens several times a day and it's driving me crazy!   I went into the Maintenance tab under Tools, but it doesn't seem to be a solution.  I have to save at least 3 months of messages in these files for commercial purposes.  What can I do to prevent it from appearing?

  Compacting does not delete messages, only the space wasted. If you don't lose messages, it's either because of damaged files or disrupt the process of compaction.

  If you compacted it completed successfully, and you see the prompt earlier that 100 closures of OE, then see if you have Windows search installed. If you do, you need to tell Windows Search to stop indexing OE.

  In the control panel. Indexing Options. Change. Clear the check box for Outlook Express.

  If you have lost messages during compaction, see this.

  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

  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

• Whenever I have close Outlook Express application to compact messages. How to stop all the time to ask?

  Windows XP. IE8, OE6

  The file in the usage message, it is clear that you did not follow my instructions. You must follow every step of the process of compacting exactly as stated in my previous post, if you want to make sure the counter is reset. You can then close Outlook Express 99 times before you'll see the prompt to compact again. It is less the point of Bruce Hagen applies.

• When Outlook Express asks you to compress files, what happens to my e-mail messages?

  Outless Express has a pop-up asking you to compress my files of e-mail message to free the disk space. If I click YES, my e-mail messages are deleted?

  Your e-mail messages are not deleted when you compact, unless there's a problem. Always backup personal folders on your computer, e-mail or otherwise.
   
   
  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 
   

• Outlook Express broke down. With XP SP3 can get detailed instructions on how to uninstall and reinstall Outlook Express with the original disc?

  Outlook Express broke down.  With Windows XP SP3 can get detailed instructions on how to uninstall and reinstall Outlook with original disc?

  OE gives an error message standard it is not correctly installed.  Its a remnant message from OE4 and is false.  You probably corruption with folders.dbx and you should remove it.  See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#7 then, after departures OE you must back up your messages and given the corruption, go to file | Identities and setup a new identity for you give a fresh message store and then you can use file | Import | Messages to bring them from the old identity.

  Steve