Re: Suddenly OE crashes frequently all day today...

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Your current Identity may be damaged, especially if its the default Main Identity. Try one or more of your accounts in a new Named Identity (File > Identities > Add new identity). Assuming all is well, (1) compact all folders in the old identity, (2) import messages from the old identity into the new one, and then (3) delete the old one (File > Identities > Manage Identities).

To avoid such corruption in future:

- 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

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is automatically compacting your message store.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

Adela wrote:
(WinXP Home SP2; OE 6; IE 6; Dell Dimension XPS T450MHz Pentium III; Free
Version 7.5.503; spybot S&D; ad-aware; cable modem; WordPerfect8; Lexmark
Laser printer "Optra E310")

Hello, I hope this forum is also for Outlook Express? If not, please let me
know where I can find the proper forum?

Since this morning OE has been methodically crahsing on me without apparent
reason. It happens every few seconds, or a few short minutes today. I shut
down OE several times but on restarting it said "Outlook Express hasn't shut
down correctly". I scanned it with Ad-Aware and Spybot, defragged, deleted
all my delete folders, then shut down the entire computer, let it rest,
restarted it...and no help.

It seems it happens in only one of my identities. I tried my other 2
identities before I posted this and they seem ok.

Will appreciate a lot any suggestions if you have them? Thanks ever so
much! Adela

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