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• 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

• When you send an e-mail using Outlook Express, I immediately get this message; "Some errors occurred while processing the requested tasks. Please see the list of errors below for more details"

  When you send an e-mail using Outlook Express, I immediately get this message; "Some errors occurred while processing the requested tasks. Please see the list of errors below for more details". Unfortunately, there are no errors listed below and the green bar is frozen on the screen. The message remains in my Outbox and repeated again and again sending. There is absolutely no record and file sent in my sent box. TIA - Ernie

  You have apparent dbx file corruption. A common 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, 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 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

• 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

• Outlook Express was suddenly more accessible!

  We used MSN and Outlook Express as our default email for many years.  Suddenly, we can access more is she!  When you click the icon, the Outlook Express 6 window opens and then the computer crashes.  We have access to our list of contacts and have access to our House e-mail through Hotmail currently.  Do we need to re - load Outlook Express?  Ideas?  Thank you.

  You will find support for OE in this forum: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpnetwork/threads

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  Start here: http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#crash

  Cautions general OE:

  N ' not use Inbox or sent items to archive messages.  Move them to local folders created for this purpose.

  -Empty the deleted items folder daily.

  -Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE while records that "work offline".  More onhttp://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

  -Do not cancel automatic compacting, where it would happen and do not try to close OE via Manager tasks or stop your Automatic compaction machine can take place.

  -Disable e-mail scanning in your antivirus application.  It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages) and offers no additional protection:

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

  ~ 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

• Outlook Express hangs after a facebook message

  Whenever I get an email notice that somebody posted on my wall on Facebook, I click to open the e-mail message and Outlook Express crashes.  Soluto says it's probably because of the nesplitter.ax file.  I can't locate this file on my computer.  Any suggestions on how to stop this crash?

  It is a known issue with certain mail such as OE clients, given Facebook emails do not conform to the standards of the Internet.  The only way around is to read Facebook messages in plain text only.  So if you get one, before you open it, go to tools | Options | Read and verify the ability to read messages in plain text only, then you can read the message without it crashing.

  You can also get my free OETool (www.oehelp.com/OETool/) program, which has a button that toggles this option of HTML / plain text.

  Alternatively, you can set up a message rule that if the message comes from Facebook, then move it to another folder.  Before going into this folder to read the messages, turn the read plain text messages option.

  Steve

• Outlook Express 6 breaking apart all messages

  I use Outlook Express 6, which has worked without problem until today when it decided to separate all HTM and TXT messages and show them as attachments instead of the normal message that had previously been posted. I don't know there is a way to prevent this case so I came to the experts for help. The rest of the program works very well. Sending, receiving, etc.

  It's good to know.  I wonder what the problem could be.  This should help someone else who has a problem (which is very rare in this group and elsewhere).

  see you soon,

  Steve

• my outlook express program does not delete messages. can I download a new program? second time to request asked...

  Earlier today my outlook express program has ceased to remove messages, so I'll eventually a massive accumulation of messages... suggestions? should I buy new system and transfer my address list?

  You are the very welcome.

• I have XP 2002 with service pack 3. My Outlook Express disappeared suddenly with all my contacts

  I have XP 2002 with service pack 3. My Outlook Express suddenly disappeared with all my contacts. What happened to Outlook Express and I can recover my email contacts?

  Hi MAfong,

  Did you do any hardware changes or software on your computer before this problem?

  You can try to repair Outlook express and check if the problem persists:

  An Outlook Express basic repair kit

  Hope the helps of information.

• When I open Outlook Express I get an error message, the messages could be retrieved, error number: 0x800420CD.

  When I opened O/E I receive my messages but then it gives me an error msg

  Number 47 of the message could not be found. Account: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', server: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, server response: '-ERR problem retrieving message.', Port: 995, secure (SSL): Yes, Server error: 0x800CCC90, error number: 0x800420CD

  If I send a msg, it works very well.

  I could not find Outlook Express menu.

  Thank you

  OE is in the category windows Messaging. That error means that the message is correct.  Log on to the online account and see what message hasn't been minimum and delete it.

• Error 0x800CCC0F Outlook Express can duplicate the same messages from yesterday, and I can't delete them.

  Original title: outlook can duplicate the same messages from yesterday, and I can't delete them.

  I use outlook express for my e-mail yesterday same emails keep coming, I tried to remove them, but can't everytime I open outlook I get the same

  
  The other post:
  I opened outlook express the same messages from yesterday, continue to repeat every time error 0x800CCC0F had no new messages and I can't delete these messages

  Hi glendamcmillan,

  You did it all change hardware or software 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.

• How can I configure Outlook Express automatically download new email messages

  How can I configure the computer automatically download all new e-mail messages without selecting send/receive, when I have Outlook Express on?

  Tools | Options | In general. The arrival of messages every X minutes.

  Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | In general. Make sure that "include this account...". "is checked.

• Microsoft Outlook express Outbox does not transmit messages - Messages remain in the Outbox for ever

  When you create new messages, outlook does not transmit messages. They remain in the Outbox for ever

  Assuming that you have checked The Send Messages immediately and you get no error message, you may need to the corruption of dbx files.

  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 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!