recently tried a different ISP, didn't like it so went broadband with my
original dial up provider, however, orange have left me with their search bar
in the bottom pane of my outlook express inbox, how do I remove it , I have
uninstalled anything "orange" I can find, but it ...

When I click File/Export Messages, and then click the OK for Exporting OE Messages, I get
a small window that says:
An Error Occurred While Initializing MAPI
Then I cannot go any farther then clicking the OK button in the error dialog box, which

I want to ste up my account

Running WinXP with IE6.0.
When I go to web sites, click on active links, or go to a different web
page, my IE suddenly shuts my pc down.   This only happens on occasions, and
is random and intermittent.  There is no pattern to the problem, such as

By default the WAB shows only four fields (columns) in the right pane
for each contact: Name,E-mail Address,Business Phone,Home Phone.
Is there a way to change that?

When starting up the PC, after a shutdown, opening OE and selecting any
header in the Inbox list, ALL headers above it are hi-lited as well.
How can this be fixed?  On re-booting, the problem is gone,  but if I shut
down then reopen the PC, the problem returns.

can someone tell me why i have to go to accounts and change my server back to
the way i had set it up!? My incoming server for e.g is pop.tiscali.co.uk
however when go try to recieve emails it comes back with nothing i find that
this setting has been changed to an i.p. address. ...

Alot of times when I switch identities, outlook express does not respond. I
clear the page and try to restart outlook express, but it does not respond.  
I have to restart my computer to get into outlook express.  WHY?

Upgraded my whole system, re-installed Winxp lost Spell Checker. Where can I
get one?.

Bruce,
I upgraded my computer including a new hard drive.
Also had the Winxp Home OS re-installed so now I am tinkering re-instlalling
my programs, to apoint it's a hit and miss situation. The old drive is still

when I go to synch my newsgroups I get a message that tells me I am offline
and asks me do I want to go online. Also my posts do not get sent immediately
although the box is checked for that. I seem to remmebr an issue around this
a couple of years ago and I thought it had been ...

When Switching Identities either one of two things occur frequently.  (1) The
program closes out completely, requiring rebooting to open again. (or) (2)
When the program switches to the new identities email page no email text
shows, again, requiring rebooting to straighten out ...

I found out that I could save old posts in OE6 by creating new folders
and sticking the posts I want to save into them but when I got about
100 to 110 posts in a folder, I couldn't put any more into it. Does
anybody know how to increase the number of stored posts I can place in

Hi, I know that I need to change my SMTP server address for each ISP I use,
but when I am away from my home ISP, I don't know the SMTP server address of
any other ISP that I may be using whilst out and about - is there a way
around ths.

After a crash I managed to get my Outlook address book onto my new PC.  I
want to use Outlook Express for my mail.  How do I make the address books
synchronize?