Re: Opening my email in outlook express

Personally, I prefer XP to W2k because of the System Restore feature and the remote desktop feature that's built in. I have no problem with the activation feature that some users decry. It's all a matter of personal preference. Also look into using the FAST wizard if you decide to go with XP to move your settings and files:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6

Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped. No one gets paid to help here, and the response rate from those that are helped is less than 4-5%. If that were how medical advancements were made we would all have died years ago. Thanks.


"Brent NV" <BrentNV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C2999EAB-7D35-4983-92A1-F62EBF4324BB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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