We clicked on "Compact messages" in Outlook Express and 6 months of messages disappeared! Any ideas as to the why, where they could be, and how they can be recovered?

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• I do not use outlook express and still get msg, oe can compact the message. How to stop

  I do not use outlook express and still get msg, oe can compact the message.  How do I prevent this every time that I turn on computer to come.

  You must tell Windows Search to stop indexing OE.

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

  If you see the prompt again, let the compact once to reset the counter and it should be.

• Compacted Outlook Express and save some of my emails. Now, I need access to the following, but can not open them. How to reopen these emails? __

  Compacted Outlook Express and save some of my emails.  Now, I need access to the following, but can not open them.  How to reopen these emails?

  Hi Redtiger1705,

  Lost emails immediately after compact preforming?
  If so, Outlook Express creates BAK files before compaction. They are copied there as a precaution, in case something goes wrong with the compaction. The following steps should help those rear:
  
  1) open Outlook Express and go to tools, Options, maintenance, store folder. Copy the entire path to the storage folder, and then click OK.  Close Outlook Express.

  (2) go to the basket and search for all files with the .bak extension.  Restore the most recent .bak files. That he will put in the OE store folder, but still like a BAK file.

  (3) click on start, run and paste the path that you copied in step 1 in the run box, and then press ENTER.

  4) click Tools, Folder Options. In the Folder Options window, click the view tab.

  (5) less advanced, uncheck the "Hide extensions for known file types".

  (6) you should see the two sent a Sent Items.dbx from the file as well as the Items.bak. Rename the Sent Items.DBX to Sentold.dbx and Rename Items.Bak sent to Sent Items.DBX. When you open OE, your messages sent items must be restored.

  Please let me know if I can be of further assistance!

  Cody C
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• I'm using Outlook Express and from time to time, the box "leave a copy of messages on the server" becomes disabled automatically.

  Hi, Im using Outlook Express and from time to time, box "leave a copy of messages on the server" becomes disabled automatically.

  Ive checked the Task Manager, its not running after close Outlook.

  Appreciate your comments.

  This can be dependent on ISP or it could just be OE spoil.  I saw this happen at any time.  You can try to backup the message store, and then delete the mail account completely (you will not lose messages).  The file to run. Folder | All compact.  Then close and reopen OE and then add the account back again.  See if things stick after that.

  Steve

• Impossible to click on a link in Outlook Express

  Original title: "Rick".

  This is the first time to use it, I need help, when I opened an e-mail I can't click a link in the email - I use outlook express and XP with service pack 3

  Hyperlinks do not work in Outlook Express or in Word (revised 29-Apr-09)
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/823301

  Hyperlinks do not work in Outlook Express after you put upgraded to IE7 [or IE8] (revised 29-Apr-09)
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929867

  If still no joy:

  With the permission of MVP Frank Saunders. [RIP]

  If nothing happens when you click on a link:
  Open Windows Explorer or on the control panel.
  Go to tools | Folder options | Types of files.
  Scroll to [NONE] URL: Protocol HyperText Transfer (shortened NOTURL:Internet) and select it.
  Click Edit or advanced, depending on your version of Windows.
  Choose 'open '.
  Click on change.

  "Application used to perform action" should read:

  "C:\PROGRAM may EXPLORER\iexplore.exe" - nohome (check the path to)
  Iexplore.exe to ensure that it is correct and use the double quotes).

  DDE should be checked and in the boxes below, you should have:

  #1:
  « %1 »,,-1,0,,,
  #2
  IExplore
  #3 (white)

  #4
  WWW_OpenURL

  Protocol URL: HyperText Transfer with Privacy should be the same.

  If the foregoing is correct, uncheck the box: use DDE.
  

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

• I tried to send a file in outlook express and its too big, how to remove it it keeps trying to send it and blocks all other messages

  I was sending pictures via outlook express and an error message came and said that the file was too big to send what is good, but how do I stop trying to send it.  He says still sending mail, so everything is blocked and it shows 1 point in the Outbox.  I'm very well that there are not sent but how do I get it out of the Outbox to stop this "send mail".

  Check: File | Work offline and in: reviews | Layout: uncheck the preview pane. Can delete you it now?

• When I set uo Outlook Express, all of my emails that were on my cox mail server have been transferred to outlook express and then dissapered. Where have all my messages and how to get them back?

  When I set uo Outlook Express, all of my emails that were on my cox mail server have been transferred to outlook express and then dissapered. Where have all my messages and how to get them back?

  You did not indicate EO to leave a copy of messages on the server, so when he downloaded from the server, they have been removed from it.  Go to tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced and check the box leave a copy on the server for the future.
   
  Steve
   
  wrote in message News: * e-mail address is removed from the privacy *...

  When I set uo Outlook Express, all of my emails that were on my cox mail server have been transferred to outlook express and then dissapered. Where have all my messages and how to get them back?

• 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

• It's urgent! How can I delete my account in outlook express and the history of mail?

  Dear Ms team / users.

  Today I just connected my gmail account in outlook express and it's connected and started to download all mails on my computer.
  As it was not my personal computer, but the office so I want to remove my account from outlook express and delete the history that there are.
  I think I deleted my account, but I'm not able to remove the history accordingly, anyone can see my emails just by clicking on outlook express.
  Please help it is urgent.
  Thanks in advance.
  Kind regards
  Vaibhav

  Follow these steps only if no one else is using this Outlook Express identity.

  1: in OE: tools | Accounts | Delete the account.

  2: delete all messages in the OE files and empty the deleted items folder.

  3: remove all the dbx files in the message of store with OE closed. When it is open, new, and create empty dbx files.

  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.

  Close OE store folder and open Outlook Express. Select all the dbx files and delete them.

• With the help of old Windows CD to install the optional component deleted Outlook Express and I need to get it back!

  We have received a Windows XP laptop from a friend and use Outlook Express for e-mail. We had a number of other things such as pilots with the laptop but not the Windows CD.  Then we wanted to reduce the size of a jpg image and I wanted to use MS Photo Editor to do what I then read on the Microsoft site that I could get by installing from any Windows CD.  Therefore, I used an old Windows XP CD from another PC, choose to install an optional component and chose as accessories to the next screen, ensure that all other options were struck down, assuming that so they would simply not be installed.  One of them was Outlook Express and Internet Explorer.  Instead of THIS the wizard DELETED Outlook Express and Internet Explorer.  When I tried to get him back by checking these options, asked me for the 2nd day of the original installation CD - which of course, I did not!  I have managed to re - download IE8 from Microsoft Download site, but of course do that for Outlook Express - and we don't have Office on this computer: (.)  Help!  (a) is it possible to reverse this process to remove/uninstall Outlook Express? (b) we now lost all our emails? (c) I already tried to go back to a previous good configuration, but that has not worked.

  Thank you in advance for advice, answers or help.

  First, make sure that OE has actually disappeared.  Go to start | Run and paste this and see if OE starts:

  "c:\program files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe".

  Including the quotes and see if OE starts.  Very often "withdrawal" OE removes just the shortcut to it.

  If this does not work, you can try reinstalling XP SP3 (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/help/learn-how-to-install-windows-xp-service-pack-3-sp3), but you should probably uninstall IE8 first and then reinstall it later.

  You can also go to the c:\windows\inf directory and locate the msoe5.inf file and right-click on it and choose Install and see if that fixes things.

  See if that works.

  Steve

• Error: 0X0800C0133 with Outlook Express and cannot receive e-mail

  An unknown error has occurred with my Outlook Express and I can't receive emails. It is erroe 0X0800C0133. Please I need help on how to remove it and fix my Email

  It would be useful also (in terms of it being assistance), if you can insert your message standard on this subject as it goes in detail on the issue, than my comment and the topic of the thread inside error number, many perhaps find via search.

  Thank you

  Steve

• 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

• set up outlook express and change the ip address on windows xp

  I would like to set up outlook express and to change my ip address on windows xp home

  Outlook Express is built into Windows XP.  To run it, click Start > all programs > Outlook Express .  To configure an e-mail account, click Tools > accounts > Add > Mail .

  To change your IP address:

  1. go in Control Panel > Classic view > network connections .
  2 right click on your network connection.
  3. click on Properties .
  4. double-click on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) .

  However, you probably cannot change your IP address if it is assigned by your Internet service provider.  How to get your computer IP address, and why would you change?

• After removing Office 2010 Trial, I lost my address book Outlook Express and cannot open emails.

  I installed a free trial of office 2010, but he did not understand the editor which was what I wanted.   I uninstalled it now I lost my address book in outlook express and can't open saved emails.

  I can't find my software or backup and think that I lost when I moved.

  Lynn

  Yes, you will need to reinstall Office 2000. When you installed Office 2010 trial, he removed Office 2000. Once you get the cd, reinstall Office and should be back up and running.

  I can't offer any assistance with address number address Outlook Express however.

  Thank you...

• When Windows XP is finished in April 2014, will I still be able to use Word? I'll always be able to use Outlook Express and Internet Explorer? Or they all will be unavailable?

  I have Windows XP Service pack 3.

  Hi Christine,

  Support for Windows XP will be completed; However, you will be able to use Microsoft Word, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer without any problem.

  For reference:

  Record the lifecycle of Windows:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows/products/lifecycle

   

  I hope that the information above helps you.