Posted by Mark W on 11/30/07 08:11

"Gary" <Garyspam@spamasmailorder.com> wrote in message
news:vMn3j.38780$dN2.32411@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
> Please help me
>
> I am having problems with Outlook express
> I have a 512meg computer running xp home sp2
>
> Recently Outlook express has been giving a out of memory error.
>
> The workaround is to shut down OE and open it up again. Memory manager
> tells me I have 100=250 meg available but Outlook ex just can't see it.
> Any help would be great. obviously not a life or death prob but Very
> annoying
>
> TIA


You could try Tools / options / maintenance / Clean Up Now and see if some
of those options help.
Remove newsgroup messages if there's a lot, compact the files etc.
Also clean up your temporary internet folder by deleting temp files. OE can
dump a lot of zero-byte files in there.

Oh and if you can find the .dbx files, these might well be very bloated.
Even the 'outbox' file can grow out of all proportion with nothing in it. If
it's these, you can delete the .dbx files and OE will recreate them (after
moving anything you want to keep).

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