Outlook Express won't open

"y" wrote in message news:...

"Golfnut" wrote in message
...
Well I have solved the problem.

Nothing whatsoever to do with registry. Thanks to a guiding comment from
PA
Bear I switched of the association that zone alarm had with emails. Hey
presto OE now opens. Strange that it had been running with it for over a
year.

Thanks very much for your help. I will pass on recommendations.

"Golfnut" wrote:

Sorry, but this is far too complicated for me to follow. What is meant
by
export the entire HKCU\identities key. I got as far as force identity
script.
This didn't work and I am not confident enough to continue with messing
around in regedit. OE is a pain in the proverbial.

I need spoon feeding from here, sorry.

Golfnut

"PA Bear" wrote:

Start he http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#crash (all of
it).

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.

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

- WinXP SP2 only: If your machine is fully up-to-date at Windows
Update,
installing the following patch (KB918766) will help to avoid such data
loss
in the futu
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...2-98af2256ccc3

This patch will be included in the next Cumulative Update for Outlook
Express/WinXP SP2.

- 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

Golfnut wrote:
Hi, I am completely new to this so here goes.

I cannot open Outlook Express. The last thing that happened was upon
closing
a dialogue box appeared asking if I wanted to compress emails to
save disk
space. I clicked yes. Since then I cannot open it at all. I have
imported
all addresses and emails to Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird and can
use
them but not Outlook Express. Any suggestions please?

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