Turn Off Antivirus Software Scanning
An antivirus software can corrupt the message store or a folder when attempting to delete any message that contains a potential virus. This also applies to anti-spamware applications that somehow interrupt with the working of Outlook Express. Thus, you should disable email scanning using an antivirus software.
Viruses usually come as email attachment. Thus, even though you disable the antivirus scanning for incoming or outgoing emails, you are still protected. This is because when you try to open a virus infected attachment, the software will detect it and will warn you against it.
Turn Off Background Compaction
To remove the wasted space that generates whenever you delete or move a message file, Outlook Express comes with a default enabled feature called background compaction. Whenever the application is left idle for some time, it starts compacting the folders. The process slows down your system and consumes 100% of CPU resources. But it can result into folder or store compaction, if interrupted.
You can disable the feature under Tools Options Maintenance option of 'background compaction' and compact the folder whenever required manually.
Windows XP SP2 removes this feature, though not completely. It now starts compacting the folder when you open and close Outlook Express 100 times. At 100th time, you will be prompted to compact the folders.
Outlook Express Folder Corruption
Emails unexpectedly disappearing from OE folders is the usual indication of .dbx file corruption. To repair them, you should use DBX Repair software. Since no built-in repair utility is available for repairing the OE folders, Outlook Express Recovery software are the only solutions that you can use to repair.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is a powerful utility with rich graphic features that repairs and restores corrupted .dbx files. It is a comprehensive repair product for corrupted .dbx files. This Outlook Express Recovery utility is compatible with Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x. The software recovers all email messages without modifying the original content and view.
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