Outlook Express Strangeness

[Rich]

I have been using outlook express 6 for the past couple of months and at
least its been very touchy at times but not consistently. I used to get the
mysterious Unknown Error Message but it stopped for quite a while and then I
changed my ip address on my desktop to a static ip and it started to happen
again very frequently. I compacted all the folders, I registered it in the
registry, and I re registered a collection of DLL's all per a support article
on the outlook express site through microsoft. It was still happening so I
deleted the hotmail account that was tied to outlook express and rebuilt
through the wizard. It seemed that it runs fine when IE is actually open and
running and otherwise but that is almost what I would consider a "ghost".
Today I ahve it working pretty consistently but also have IE open. I went to
look at the folders under the Hotmail account and the strangest folder just
appeared. It is entitled ".!!OIM". I've looked everywhere to find out why
this is where it came from and so on. Well I thought i would post this here
and see if anyone has any clue what is going on with my posessed Outlook
Express.

Thanks

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP Outlook/OneNote]

I have been using outlook express 6 for the past couple of months and
at least its been very touchy at times but not consistently. I used
to get the mysterious Unknown Error Message but it stopped for quite a
while and then I changed my ip address on my desktop to a static ip
and it started to happen again very frequently. I compacted all the
folders, I registered it in the registry, and I re registered a
collection of DLL's all per a support article on the outlook express
site through microsoft. It was still happening so I deleted the
hotmail account that was tied to outlook express and rebuilt through
the wizard. It seemed that it runs fine when IE is actually open and
running and otherwise but that is almost what I would consider a
"ghost". Today I ahve it working pretty consistently but also have IE
open. I went to look at the folders under the Hotmail account and the
strangest folder just appeared. It is entitled ".!!OIM". I've looked
everywhere to find out why this is where it came from and so on. Well
I thought i would post this here and see if anyone has any clue what
is going on with my posessed Outlook Express.

Thanks

This newsgroup is for support of OneNote 2003. For Outlook Express (OE)
support try posting in one of
these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress for OE 4.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x
microsoft.public.internet.mail.mac for the Macintosh version of OE

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this
group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the
source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups).

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://www.tomsterdam.com


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Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
Stockholm Consulting Group/KSG
http://www.scgab.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

**I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
assistance. Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup.
Mahalo!