PA Bear,

Thanks for your help. My OE is working again.

It turned out that all of the .dbx files in the Outlook Express folder
were marked "Read Only". Checking this attritbute is the first step in the
trouble shooting guide at the link you supplied. I pulled a major screw up a
few weeks ago that resulted in a number of files in the Documents and
Settings folder and its subfolders being set to "Read Only". The OE is fixed
now, but I have a couple of other problems that are probably due to this same
thing.

Thanks for your help.
--
David F.


"PA Bear" wrote:

Start he http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#crash

General OE Caveats:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm.

- Do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place (WinXP SP2 only).

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP

David F. wrote:
I am using Windows XP SP2. I have just began using OE. I imported a number
of messages from Outlook, plus the address book. I think it worked once or
twice after importing the messages, but it cannot be opened now. I have
uninstalled it and reinstalled it. My computer has 1 GB of RAM and 50 GB
free space on disk. It gives the following two error messages:

"OE could not be opened. The application was unable to open the OE message
store. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk is full. Contact
Mirrosoft support ... 0X800C0, 5"

"Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be
initiallized. OE may not be installed properly."

I would like to be able to open OE, even if I lose the imported mail and
address book entries.

Please help