THANK YOU!!
I am so very happy right now, thank heavens I decided to take a chance and
repost my problem. You have allowed me to finally start up Outlook Express
and I am currently reloading all of my mail accounts and newsgroups. WooHoo!
Been at this darned thing now for days with no luck and your simple and
constructive assistance was the magic cure/fix. You've been the best thing
thus far out of this nightmare of having my five year old hard drive (Dell)
go kaput as well as facing the horrors of installing Windows XP ~ LOL!
Now, perhaps I'll be able to face whatever else comes along with a smile.
Let's hope there won't be anything though, it's been a rough month!
Have someone give you a huge hug for me, okay?
Now, as for reloading the old folders ... am not sure I want to do that, but
in case I decide to, what is the best method for doing so? I certainly will
respect the way you mention!
Going to bed happily now
)
Suzanne
"DGuess" wrote:
Don't know what all you've tried but this is what I would check.
Usually this error deals with the Folders.dbx file being corrupt.
Now, how to solve it.
Best way might be to get OE to where it thinks it's new again.
Click on START button.
Click on Run
type in Regedit
and press ENTER
This open the Registry Editor where we're going to make a change to trick
OE.
Click the + sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
A list will expand, click on Identities
right click on Identities and select Rename
name it Identities.old
Now, close Regedit.
Start OE. It should start up. It will prompt you for the account
information, etc.
Check to see if it will run now, if so, post back then we'll work on trying
to import the old messages into the new store location.
"Suzywoo2" wrote in message
...
I posted a few replies to my original question and it's answers on page two
(dated the 15th) but haven't seen anything further. I have tried (in vain)
to
move the dbx files, including the main "folders.dbx" file, double checked
where the shortcut is pointing to, made sure that none of the files are
marked as "read only" and in short, tried all that was posted for me as
well
as seen on the web. Seems this is a huge problem and yet I have not found
one
message board where people said "Voila, it fixed it!" ... or something
like
that. Here's another post just like mine:
http://www.mcse.ms/archive170-2004-2-431067.html.
Also, several of the posts I've found say something about looking in the
"Message Store" folder, which is mentioned in my error message too,
however,
I don't have a folder by that name or even one named "store" on my system
at
all. Any idea if that could be the problem and if so, what I can do about
it?
See, at the URL given to me on my first post
[http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...ors.htm#crash] it starts off
stating: "Close OE and open the store folder in Windows Explorer." Can't
open
what isn't there!
I have even sat and waited while Windows XP supposedly did the lovely
little
"repair" task listed at the MS Site
[http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US;Q318378] by
typing
"sfc /scannow" in the StartRunOpen box -- Nothing changed.
Please, help!
Suzanne
P.S. For those not aware, I am getting the ever growing problem error
messages of:
"Outlook Express could not be started. The application was unable to open
the Outlook Express message store. Your computer may be out of memory or
your
disk is full. Contact Microsoft support for further assistance.
(0x800C012E,3)."
Followed by: "Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could
not be initialized. Outlook Express may not be installed correctly."