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"PA Bear, MS MVP" wrote in message
...
[X-post to OE6 newsgroup. The following was also posted in a reply to
another
post in this thread by "br1anstorm" on 20 Nov-07. I'm reposting it here
too
so that it might be easier to find in the hierarchy of this thread.]

With over 200 posts in this thread (including ones with edited subjects),
yes, it's become difficult to keep track of everything.

= About Compacting, Email Scanning, and the Message Store

Any/all of following can corrupt the the message store
(http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain) and lead to "Message
[or
Folder] cannot be displayed/Out of memory/Low disk space" errors:

1. Using the default folders Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items to
archive
vast amounts of messages;

2. Not doing a manual compact
(http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact) frequently;

3. Enabling email scanning (outbound and inbound) by the installed
anti-virus application.

4a. Being a packrat and archiving so many messages that the size of your
message store approaches or exceeds 1GB.

4b. Being a packrat and archiving so many messages in a local folder that
the folder's DBX file grows excessively large.

Mo
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

***If any of the above apply to you, you're not necessarily suffering from
The OE Problem being discussed in this thread! See the caveats at the end
of
this message.***

= About McAfee applications and the Plain Text Option in Outlook Express

1. McAfee Site Advisor comes in various flavors: a free, standalone Add-on
for Internet Explorer; as a component of a McAfee suite (e.g., McAfee
Security Center/Internet Security;VirusScan Plus); and Site Advisor Plus,
which is *also* included in McAfee Total Protection.

McAfee Software Comparison Chart
http://us.mcafee.com/root/product.as...tid=comparison

Note that only Site Advisor Plus
(http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=284) features *direct
interaction* with the default Mail Client (e.g., OE): "Adds link safety
checking to e-mail and instant messages, so you know which links are
safe."

2. A fully updated version of OE running in WinXP SP2 includes the option
Tools Options Read Read all messages in plain text. I've very
briefly
tested with this option enabled *and* Site Advisor free enabled: It's been
20+ hours now and I haven't yet encountered The OE Problem.

= Conclusions as of 20 Nov-07

1. Some suffering from The OE Problem have found that uninstalling Site
Advisor resolves the problem, at least temporarily.

2. Some suffering from The OE Problem have found that enabling the "Read
all
messages in plain text" option *and* leaving Site Advisor enabled resolves
the problem, at least temporarily.

3. It's *very* important to note that not everyone suffering from The OE
Problem has Site Advisor or any other McAfee application installed!

It's also important (or at least interesting) to note that no thread in
McAfee Help Forums mentions The OE Problem: http://forums.mcafeehelp.com &
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/forumdisplay.php?f=194

4. At this point and IMHO, not enough testing has been done yet to
conclude
that having Site Advisor installed and/or having "Read all messages in
plain
text" /disabled/ is *the* cause of The OE Problem.

Conclusive testing would entail: (a) reinstalling Site Advisor and/or
disabling "Read all messages in plain text" which should reproduce The OE
Problem and then (b) uninstalling Site Advisor and/or enabling "Read all
messages in plain text" and confirming that doing so resolves The OE
Problem.

===============================================

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 [not available 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 cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt
to
close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting
is
taking place.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection, and even
Symantec says it's not necessary:

QP
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses
that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the
most recent virus definitions.
/QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear); posting via web-interface
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
AH VSOP & Admin; DTSL-ORG

"Gary Brandenburg" wrote:
| Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this
| message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try
again.

Sorry-Was going to wait to send this (send later) but it disappeared from
my
Outbox.
Anyway,this is what I see after I've been perusing the newsgroups a
while.
This just started occurring the last week or so & whenever it's about to
happen,the virtual memory for Outlook Express,according to Process
Explorer,is approaching 2,000,000k.
I removed some old entries that I had been saving in Drafts & compact all
folders regularly,but still no joy.
I know it can't be lack of memory since I have a gig of physical ram on
this
machine(XP Home).
I'm not sure,but I think it started around the time I updated MSN
Messenger
to 8.5 & it asked during installation if I wanted it to handle my default
email ,which I thought it meant Hotmail. While installing,the download
proceeded to remove the OE icon from my desktop & replaced it with 1 for
Windows Mail. I interrupted the install when the setup wizard for mail
started & when I did,the OE icon reappeared,along with an error message
about the interruption of the setup.
I used to be able to spend hours on the newsgroups,with no problems & now
I
have to close OE & reopen it to be able to continue,till I approach the
2,000,000k mark.
Please help me with this as I have learned so much from these newsgroups
(XP
General,mostly) but am quite new here in the OE group,& have not found
anything that relates to my dilemma.

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