Re: Opening my email in outlook express

Jim,
Disabled all antivirus and firewall sw, uninstalled a bunch of the patches,
got my email back to normal. Then tired reinstalling all of the patches and
can't get about 6 of them to install now. I guess it's about time for a
clean OS install and just start over. This is off-topic, but I was
considering moving to XP Pro. Do you have an opinion on moving from 2KPro to
XP Pro, Jim? Thanks for all your help.
Brent

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

> If you had an antivirus program running in the background during any of the
> updates, there is a good chance you had a corrupted install of that upgrade.
> Since you are running Windows 2K, there is no choice about running System
> Restore as you could do if running WinME or XP. You could go to Control
> Panel, Add/Remove Programs and scroll down to installed Hotfixes (your
> updates from the Windows Update page) and remove the most recent ones, then
> reboot. Make sure your antivirus program is completely shut down, then
> revisit Windows Update and reinstall all updates marked as Critical for your
> OS. Good luck.
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
>
>
> "Brent NV" <BrentNV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:F4AA518E-A71A-49A0-ACB4-A5FA4811E2BB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Jim,
> > I copied them from the CD to my desktop and imported one of the mail
> > folders
> > using OE's import function and it imported just fine. I was able to read
> > the
> > mail properly unlike on my current machine. This little experiment showed
> > that the email dbx files are still ok and that this is only happening on
> > my
> > main PC that I just installed all the current MS security patches on.
> > Once I
> > installed all of the security updates, my OE6 only allows me to view ALL
> > of
> > my email messages as attachments. I'm trying to figure out how to be able
> > to
> > view them normally again. Do I need to delete my identity, create a new
> > one
> > and import in all of my current email dbx folders? Tim Kuay suggested
> > that
> > something may have gotten corrupted during the security patch update
> > process.
> > Brent
> >
> > "Jim Pickering" wrote:
> >
> >> If you copied the files to a CD, the Read-Only attribute has been set on
> >> the
> >> CD which will preclude importing the files. Copy the files to a folder
> >> on
> >> your hard drive, select them all, and clear the Read-Only attribute
> >> (under
> >> the Properties), then open Outlook Express and import them. Do not
> >> copy/paste the DBX files into your message store folder as they will not
> >> be
> >> read nor recognized, they must be imported using Outlook Express's menu.
> >> --
> >> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> >> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
> >>
>
>
.

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