Posted: 7/29/2007 4:45:30 PM EDT
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A few days ago I replied to an email and it did not send. The reply stayed in the Outbox and used 60% of my CPU resources. A search revealed that this is a common problem. Something stuck in the Outbox and the resulting hogging of your CPU time. The cure is to delete your Outbox.dbx file, Outlook Express will then make a new Outbox that is empty when you start OE. Well, that's a fine theory, but when you delete Outbox.dbx ...... ^%$#@! microsoft restores it. I renamed the Outbox.dbx to 'nothing' and this did work. Outbox.dbx is hard to find. Goto C:, Documents and Settings, your user name, Local Settings, Application Data, Identities, {[ a very long number, Microsoft, Outlook Express and there will be Inbox.dbx, Outbox.dbx Sent.dbx and stuff like that. Just deleting Outbox.dbx won't do it, you have to rename it. When OE started it did indeed make a brand new Outbox.dbx that was empty. All those beautiful bombs dropped on Iraq when they should be dropped on Gate's and Balmer's homes. Nuke Redmond. Now. For the children. |
