Thanks for the response guys. I did a disc cleanup, ran spyware programs and
virus-scan...all were clean. I defragmented and disabled wormstopper. When I
checked the firewall program permission there were about 20 programs listed
that were greyed out and indicated they were not found but most had full or
outbound access. Most of the programs were also duplicated as good programs.
I deleted the not found programs and have not had the error message since. I
am thinking that may have been the cause???

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in message
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"BichonMom" jemster wrote in message
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Does anyone know why I keep getting a error msg that says "outlook Express
has encountered a problem and needs to close"?
The error box says:
AppName: msimn.exe AppVer:6.0.2900.2180 ModName: msoe.dll
ModVer: 6.0.2900.2869 Offset: 000ca818
then if I get more info:
C:\Docume~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\36d8_appcompat.txt
I keep getting the last one but with different numerals


From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/directdb.htm

Errors in DIRECTDB.DLL or MSOE.DLL generally indicate corruption in the
message store.
Start by moving Folders.dbx to an empty Windows folder (with OE closed).
Note: the DBX files are hidden in Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3. You will lose
your folder hierarchy and the lists of newsgroups on the news servers, but
it might get you into OE.

If that doesn't do it then move all of the DBX files to the same folder as
Folders.dbx (again with OE closed). You should now get into OE. Try
importing the messages from
the folder you moved the DBX files to. If you can't, you can use this tool
to extract the messages:

DBXtract ($5):
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/

Note: It can take a long time (days with really large folders).

The messages can then be dragged from the Windows folder back into a folder
in an open instance of OE.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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