Unable to install IE6 / Outlook Express corrupted?

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Hi
I was using IE 6 with Oulook Express 6, but encountered some problems with my PC forcing me to re-install the Windows Me operating system - which I did - however, now, my Outlook Express is no longer functional as the following errors appears saying that

"Outlook Express could not be started. The application was uable to open the Outlook Express message store. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk is full. Contact Microsoft support for further assistance (0x80040154)".

"Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be initialized. Outlook Express may not be installed correctly

I seem to have sufficient memory and disk free, and if I try to install IE6SP1, it doesn't complete and the following error appears "Setup was unable to install all components. Please close all applications and try running Setup again". My version of IE is 5.50.4134.0100IS. Any help to overcome the above errors would be appreciated

Thanks........BB

 

[oops!!]

As already posted in ie6.setup:

For the "unable to install all components" issue in WinME, try this:

Go to My Computer - Tools - Folder Options - View:
- Select "Show hidden files and folders", click Apply - OK

Create a folder named "Old uninstall".

Go to folder C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/Uninstall Information.

Now Edit - Select All - Cut all files.

Open "Old uninstall" folder and paste the files.

You will now be able to install all the troublesome components.

If everything works as expected, you can delete the "Old Uninstall" folder
and the files you moved.

Good luck,

Zee

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Hi,
I was using IE 6 with Oulook Express 6, but encountered some problems
with my PC forcing me to re-install the Windows Me operating system -
which I did - however, now, my Outlook Express is no longer
functional as the following errors appears saying that

"Outlook Express could not be started. The application was uable to
open the Outlook Express message store. Your computer may be out of
memory or your disk is full. Contact Microsoft support for further
assistance (0x80040154)".

"Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be
initialized. Outlook Express may not be installed correctly"

I seem to have sufficient memory and disk free, and if I try to
install IE6SP1, it doesn't complete and the following error appears
"Setup was unable to install all components. Please close all
applications and try running Setup again". My version of IE is
5.50.4134.0100IS. Any help to overcome the above errors would be
appreciated.

Thanks........BB

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/directdb.htm

Errors in DIRECTDB.DLL or MSOE.DLL generally indicate corruption in the
message store.
Start by moving Folders.dbx to an empty Windows folder (with OE closed).
Note: the DBX files are hidden in Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3. You will lose
your folder hierarchy and the lists of newsgroups on the news servers, but
it might get you into OE.

If that doesn't do it then move all of the DBX files to the same folder as
Folders.dbx (again with OE closed). You should now get into OE. Try
importing the messages from
the folder you moved the DBX files to. If you can't, you can use this tool
to extract the messages:

DBXtract (free):
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/

Note: It can take a long time (days with really large folders).

The messages can then be dragged from the Windows folder back into a folder
in an open instance of OE.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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