re: clean-up after OE tantrum delete
Monday, August 3, 2009 at 4:48 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1253 messages posted)
Marjorie wrote:
|Years back, I had a tantrum
|and just deleted Outlook Express. No uninstall,
|just delete.
|All that junk is still there in WINDOWS\
|APPLICATION DATA\
|MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK EXPRESS. I since
|reinstalled OE,which is now in WINDOWS\
|APPLICATION DATA\IDENTITIES.
|I don't know why it's in Identities. Should I
|just delete all the old stuff and drag the new to
|WINDOWS\APPLICATION DATA\
|MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK EXPRESS?
Hi Marjorie.
Well first of where did you delete OE from just Program Files\Outlook Express?
If you did then you would get a message saying something like this folder is needed
and my cause other programs not to work.
You can uninstall OE6 from Control Panel - Add/Remove.
Which web browser are you using, IE (which version), FireFox, Opera etc?
If its IE6.0 then if you goto Control Panel - Add/Remove you can remove Internet
Explorer 6.0. You will then be given an option to reinstall the original install
or you can repair then original installation or you can remove and install the previous
installation.
You could try a repair first.
Second part on Win98SE OE stores all your emails in Windows\Application Data\Identities\{750F7368-E52F-4173-9815-82DE3F559F9C}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express all in *.dbx files. If you haven't deleted this folder then you can import
your emails back into OE6.
Now your {750F7368-E52F-4173-9815-82DE3F559F9C} folder will have different numbers
and letters but it will be the same format.
Now the quickest method is to copy the Outlook Express folder to somewhere more obvious.
If you don't have a C:\Temp folder then make one then copy the Outlook Express folder
into the Temp folder. Open up OE and if there are no previous emails/sub folder visible
then click on File\Import\Messages and select your previous email format Outlook
Express 6.0 then Next. Click on Import mail from an OE6 store directory, click
on OK and use the Browse button to find this folder in C:\Temp\Outlook Express. This
will add all your old emails and sub folders.
|Also, when I try to send a webpage by email,
|it tries to use a really old account.
|How do I change this?
Third thing, well it should use your existing account from your ISP. If it doesn't
then reinstall your ISP. This will register your details in the registry so when
OE opens it knows who's emails to receive.
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