I asked a question about Receiving messages on Startup about a month ago,
and Bruce Hagen referred me to the MS article 'How to Create and Use
Identities in Outlook Express'. Thanks, Bruce -- sorry for not getting back
to you earlier. Since then, I've also looked at Tom Koch's InsideOE and
Steve Cochrane's OE site.

Bruce suggested that I may have a damaged identity, and I suspect that is
correct. But I'm reluctant to take drastic action without being a little
surer about what I'm doing. I run WinXP Home with OE6 and have just
upgraded from IE6 to IE7. I have several different OE identities with VERY
large message stores, but I try to follow the advice given in this newsgroup
from time to time about limiting the size of folders (especially the default
folders), compacting offline etc etc.

I'm not now sure whether I created the first identity by creating a new one
or renaming the then Main Identity. Apart from the identities that I have
created, I now a new one called 'Autre Utilisateur' (apparently created by
the French ISP that I am currently using) and 2 others called 'Main
Identity'. I can switch to the first (it is empty, apart from the usual OE
welcome message), but I cannot switch to either of the other 2 because I
keep getting a message saying that 'The current identity could not be
changed because one of the applications was unable to switch. ...' I have
no trouble switching between the identities that I created and use
regularly.

So ... how can I safely and effectively delete the three identities that I
do not want?
--
Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia (temporarily in Chateau-du-Loir, France)
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