Re: Opening my email in outlook express

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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