I need a resident geek or guru.....
Tuesday, February 25, 2003 by HuronJoe | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
When I try to use Outlook Express I get this message:
Outlook Express could not be started. The application was unable to open the Outlook Express message store. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk is full. Contact Microsoft support for further assistance. (0x8007007E, 126)
I click OK and then the following messages appears:
Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be initialized. Outlook Express may not be installed correctly.
Both messages don't make much sence to me because I have scads of hard drive space and one gigabyte of memory installed with over half of it available to the system.
I'm at a loss as to how to proceed. Anyone who has ever tried to contact Microsoft support is probable still waiting if it has been more then a week or so.
I only use Outlook Express for a newsreader because I use Outlook 2002 for my email and when I click on read news in Outlook 2002, it tries to open Outlook Express and the above messages appear again.
I use Windows XP Pro. I have a 700XL Gateway computer with a Pentium 4 installed. I am unable to re-install Outlook Express because when I do I get a message saying that I already have the latest IE6 and Outlook Express installed. (They come as a package).
I tried to replace the MSOE.DLL file by downloading it seperately but I still get the same messages.
I would sure appreciate any guidence that could resolve the problem.
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Reply #4 Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:59 PM
seems on technet they describe how to fix this, if it happened after updating to SP1, if that is when it went BURP....
at that point you can repaire/reinstall following their directions, and then resintall every single patch you had already installed because it wipes ti all out to take it back to origional state of installation, neat huh?

Reply #5 Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:03 PM
[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383}
Modify/Create the Value Data Type(s) and Value Name(s) as detailed below.
Data Type: DWORD // Value Name: IsInstalled
Setting for Value Data: [Change the Value from 1 to 0]
Exit Registry
If you are having problems only with Outlook Express 6, proceed as follows:
[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA848-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}
Modify/Create the Value Data Type(s) and Value Name(s) as detailed below.
Data Type: DWORD // Value Name: IsInstalled
Setting for Value Data: [Change the Value from 1 to 0]
Exit Registry
If you are having problems with both Internet Explorer 6 and Outlook Express 6, proceed as follows:
Change the values in both of the registry keys as outlined above.
Exit Registry
here is a linnk to this site, good info for everyone...
there are no guru,s just people that have some of the answers and then those they turn to for finding them when they don't

The Elder GEEK on Windows XP
http://www.theeldergeek.com/repair_reinstall_ie_and_oe_6.htm

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Reply #1 Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:48 PM
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;296969