Re: Odd behavior after applying several patches

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"tmeister" <tmeister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A90F2ACB-370D-4B51-BBF3-F24F84B0B559@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I was running Windows 2003 (server) on my laptop and recently decided that I
could manage with XP Professional. I use Outlooke Express 6 and it worked
great on 2003. I migrated my mailbox structure to the new installation of XP
and at first it worked just as it did under 2003. I have installed Office
and VS.NET 2003 along with all of the patches and somewhere along the line I
started getting odd behavior discussed elsewhere on this list. I have all of
my previous messages but the body of these messages do not show up.
Additionally I am unable to compose messages with any text in the body, it
appears to be disabled. Also if I try to send a message (without the body) I
get the following error message.

This message has not completed downloading.  It cannot be saved until
download it complete

I think the error message is misleading, I'm trying to compose a brand new
message here.

I have tried the following command I found on several other thread with no
luck, even after restarting.

regsvr32 inetcomm.dll

Finally I'm able to get my mail "back" if I log into the system as a
different user and point to the same directory as the mail store. If I then
log out and back in as the administrator of the system (the only account I
use) the mail magically appears until my next restart. Then I start the
process all over again.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Todd Meister 

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