Outlook Express freezes at splash screen

**Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM**

It was making a new Folders.dbx

"AndrewJ" wrote in message
...
Followed your advice and - after the PC thought about it for about 60
seconds
- OE6 opened fine.

Thanks for your help.

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#7 Try deleting folders.dbx (hidden).
Then
if OE starts okay, make a backup and then if it still has problems go to
File | Identities and setup a new Identity. Reinstallation won't help,
as
its a message store issue, regardless of whatever error messages you may
get.

steve

"AndrewJ" wrote in message
...
When I try to launch OE6 I get the splash screen appearing but it just
stays
there - nothing else. There's no error message at all; it just hangs.

I've reinstalled IE7 but that hasn't done the trick. I tried
downloading
IE6
but of course it says it won't run as I have a later version of IE
installed.
I cannot find a file which installs OE6 as a standalone.

Unfortunately, the CDs that came with the PC were destroyed in a small
house
fire, so I can't use those.

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