Sorry for the delay in responding. Thanks for your response.

What we first noticed was that when we clicked on the OUtlook Express icon
that was on the desktop that it gave an error message that I don't remember
specifically, but that indicated that it did not know what to do. I knew
that msimn.exe was involved from looking at the Task Manager panel in the
past. I did a global search for it and it was not found. I am curious that
it was missing given w/o there being widespread disk problems. I guess
somehow it got corrupted ahd ckhdsk detectred that and "fixed" it by
deleting it. Pretty puzzling.

-- Sam

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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How have you determine that MSIMN.EXE is missing?

What's in C:\Program Files\Outlook Express =this folder?

What happens if you do the following?...

Start | Run | (type or copy/paste) MSIMN.EXE | OK
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Sam Bryan wrote:
I'm helping a friend whose PC is running Win XP Home. She did not do a
proper powerdown/powerup,
got a blue screen on reboot, ran dskchk (with option to fix errors) and
could not run OE 6 because msimn.exe is missing.

Her dbx files seem to be OK. We need to reinstall Outlook Express. I've
looked around with Google for suggestions for this
and finding a variety of suggestions - some talk about reinstalling SP2,
other IE6. Some involve registry changes. Isn't there some way to do this
in
a straightforward, simple way?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Would installing Windows Live Mail go out and find and install the dbx
files
when it is installed?

Many thanks -- Sam