Re: Simple Mapi support missing

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From: Jim Pickering (jimp_at_mvps.invalid)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:06:11 -0700

See if this helps.

263453 - OLEXP: Error Message: Simple MAPI Support Could Not Be Enabled
Because Mapistub.dll Could Not Be Found in the System Directory or Failed to
Load:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q263453

Mapistub.dll can be found in the mailnews.cab file in your "C:\Windows
Update Setup Files" folder. Or if you are running Windows XP, might want to
try a repair/uninstall/reinstall as outlined in this article (just make sure
to shut down any antivirus program before doing the reinstall to prevent a
corrupted or flawed install):

How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows
XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318378 

-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.
"YouHoosier" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:1b4ae01c4208c$f87453e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Have two OS's, IBM and Tohiba. Both run Win98SE, IE6SP1
> and OE6. Oddly both OS's refused to allow me to list my
> OE6 as the default mail handler (which OE6 pops up would
> prompt me to do) whenever starting up OE6.
>
> Having never used OE' until (when previously using AOL), I
> set up my msn.hotmail in OE6. Having rid my OS of AOL and
> now using a pop3 ISP, I succeeded in setting up both
> Netscape' and Hotmail in OE6, and while my OS's both send
> and receive w/o problems or apparrent issues, I used to
> get the following whenever I opened OE6:
>
> "Outlook Express is not currently your default mail
> client. Would you like to make it your default mail client?
>
> Answering (clicking) Yes, I'd get another popup message
> that states:
>
> "Simple MAPI support could not be enabled because
> MAPISTUB.DLL could not be found in the system directory or
> failed to load. Reinstalling should restore this file."
>
> I feel that what caused this may have been a combination
> of having used AOL and having set up a msn hotmail account
> in OE6 while I still used AOL's e-mail (in AOL) and
> hotmail (in OE6).
>
> That alone may not have caused the MAPI problem, but I
> feel another previous application may also have caused or
> contributed to the resultant MAPI problem.
>
> I had tried using Windows Messaging's Fax without ever
> having completely finishing the WM setup. That is, I never
> was afforded how to enter a path for the Inbox to allow
> WM' to act as a mail handler.
>
> Instead, only wishing to use WM's included fax feature, I
> did a few times until I found that despite all settings to
> the contrary, whenever my phone rang one time, the WM fax
> would pick up and squeal into my incoming caller's ear.
>
> After several removals of WM, I finally seemed to have rid
> my OS of WM' and the associated fax feature, except when
> my OS is up and running, it oddly still picks up the phone
> and squeals despite that WM' and the fax are nowhere to be
> seen in my OS.
>
> Also after I uninstalled AOL, I believe I found that AOL
> had relocated Win98 folder full of .cab files. That, and
> the issues of having used Windows Messaging/Microsoft Mail
> Postoffice/Microsoft Fax, I believe have effected my OS to
> where the missing MAPISTUB.DLL resulted in OE's inability
> to be listed in IE's properties's program's e-mail box.
>
> In my Toshiba, after having rid it of AOL and WM', and
> encountering the inability to list OE as a default mail
> handler, I first tried replacing the missing MAPISTUB.DLL
> in WINDOWS/SYSTEM folder, but no luck as while I no longer
> got the popup asking for OE to be made my default, etc., I
> see in my IE's properties that the programs tab lists
> nothing in the e-mail box. This tells me that OE is not my
> default mail handler, right? Nor can I find any way to get
> OE to show up in that box.
>
> As for my IBM's OS, while experiencing all of the same
> issues except that before removing AOL, I had removed the
> WM' and it's fax, but I later reinstalled only the
> awfax.exe while avoiding any partial install of WM's
> Microsoft Mail Postoffice/Inbox.
>
> In the IBM, I used have only the issues of an inability to
> set OE as the default mail handler, until I placed the
> missing MAPISTUBB.DLL in it's WINDOW/SYSTEM folder. Then
> the IBM finally lists OE in it's IE Properties program's e-
> mail box.
>
> Seems I lucked out by happenstances and solved the IBM
> issues, but cannot resolve the Toshiba's. At this point, I
> am left to trying the following, unless someone has a
> better idea.
>
> The above switch, if failing to correct the issue, I'll
> then try the following registry trick towards enabling my
> IE to perhaps reinstall my OE by using the repair IE tool
> in MS System Information.
>
> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active
> Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-
> 00AAOOB6015C}
>
> If there is a value IsInstalled - change it to 0 (zero).
> Backup my .wab and .dbx files. Then using the repair IE
> feature in MS System Information, and that still doesn't
> fix things, then one must actually remove OE from
> installed programs box in add/remove, and then try again
> use the repair IE repair feature, and if that fails to
> reinstall OE or resolve the IE/OE issue, then I must
> reinstall IE?
>

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