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Hi all,
I've been googling for a while and cannot seem to find an answer so I
hope I can get some assistance here.
My mother's PC is running Win ME (I know, get rid of it) and the other
day, she went to launch Outlook Express and got the following error
messages:
Msimn caused an error ... Msident.dll - Msimn will now close--
Followed by "Identity Logon could not be started and then MSOE.dll
could not be initialized".
I was going to reload IE6 and OE but I got error message trying to do
that. I have tried to "repair" through Control Panel/Add-Remove and
that gives me the error message "Rundll32.dll caused an error in
Kernel32.dll" and the program closes.
Any suggestions other than dumping the OS and reformatting?
Many thanks for any suggestions.
Faith

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

Errors involving DIRECTDB.DLL or MSOE.DLL often 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 ($5):
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 OE
"Anyone who prefers security over freedom deserves neither."