How do I repair Outlook Express?

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Operating system:Microsoft Windows ME (Millennium)
Can't find or open my outlook express messages!
I got a brief message that my outlook express was full or something like that. I now can't open or find my e-mail messages. How do I restore my email messages? I could delete some and if needed but I can't find the program!
Please advise.

Thanks,
Alan

When I go into outlook express it says "there was a problem swithching folders, possibly because the folder was busy. Please wait a moment and try again" and it will then not let me access my messages. Any ideas???

I've not heard of that error message before, if you've transcribed it exactly. I would make sure you're not running Outlook Express twice, perhaps, but other than that I'm not sure.

Try to use the http://www.nsware.com/Repair-Tool-for-Outlook-Express.htm

I have just received this error message in outlook express "there was a problem switching folders, possibly because the folder was busy."

I cannot read any HTML formatted emails after this point. Outlook cannot open any messages either and throws strange "Do you wish to save unknown '.htm' file to disk?" whenever it starts up.

MSIE (which I rarely use) is no longer able to open web pages any longer either, wanting to save the pages immediately to disk.

So in summary, corruption in Internet Explorer could be a strong source for this error message that you are receiving.

FYI, the solution in my particular case was to enter the following command into "Start -> Run":

regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\mshtml.dll

Hi (I could not find an article to match my issue)
I "selected all" emails in my "sent" folder to delete. There were over one thousand.
In the middle of doing this which was taking a while, OE failed. Message screen said the system had an error.
After I rebooted I can not delete anything from any folder, nothing.
What do I do in order to be able to delete my emails?
thank you very much for your time.
Perry

This article on Microsoft's site may help: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

Pardon my stupidity. I don't seem to see a soultion to the "0x800C0133" error code. Can you help? Gary Apps 800 ***-****. Thanks.

[ed: removed phone number. NEVER post your phone number in a public forum like this.]

Theres no specific solution here for that specific error. Try the general problem solving suggestions outlined in the article.

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