Rectifying “Outlook Express could not be started” Error in MS Outlook Express

Microsoft Outlook Express stores all the emails, contacts, subscribed newsgroups, and mail folders in “Store Folder.” It is the main storage area of Outlook Express. If the Store Folder gets damaged due to any reason, application may not work properly. It gives you strange error messages and all your significant data becomes inaccessible. Inability to open the Outlook Express can lead to a number of problems to your business. At this point of time, Outlook Express Recovery is the only solution to get your data back.

When you try to open Microsoft Outlook Express or access the mail folders, you may come across the below error 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. (0x800C012E,5)”

When you click the OK button on error message dialog box, you encounter further error message stating:

“Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be initialized. Outlook Express may not be installed correctly.”

After this behavior of MS Outlook Express, you can not start the application and access files from it. In order to access your valuable emails and other data, you have to find out the root cause of this problem and perform DBX Recovery by sorting it out.

è MSOE.DLL is a significant library file in Outlook Express. It is a critical component, which is used by MS Outlook Express to start. In case of corruption of this file, Outlook Express can not start and you face data loss.

Cause

This behavior is caused by corrupted Store Folder. Store Folder corruption may occur due to a number of reasons such as application malfunction, unexpected system shutdown, virus infection, user errors, missing system files, and many alike.

Resolution

Restore all the DBX files from an updated backup to fix the issue. If backup is not available, Outlook Express Repair using third-party applications.

The DBX Recovery Tools are particularly designed to perform in-depth scan of corrupted DBX files and extract all inaccessible emails, notes, contacts, tasks, calendar items, and journals from them. They come equipped with quite simple and self-descriptive graphical user interface and enable you to perform recovery on your own.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is the most prominent solution for all cases of DBX file corruption. The software works well with Microsoft Outlook Express 6.x and 5.x. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

How to Get back Deleted Email (Item) from Outlook Express:

When you delete an email in Outlook Express Inbox, which goes to the Deleted Items folder 'of your original folder. Can then be removed from the folder 'Deleted Items' as well. However, in either case, the email is assuredly deleted from the memory of Outlook Express. Still after deleting emails from the Deleted Items folder these emails halt on the hard disk and therefore consume a large amount of disk space in the hard disk. Compacting folders in Outlook Express, you can ensure that disk space is used comfortably by removing the deleted emails. Sometimes, compaction can lead to serious unforeseen damage, such as removing all mail folders. You should take appropriate measures to resolve the problem. However, if they are unable to resolve the problem, then you should use a third party repair Outlook Express for mail retrieval.

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Pst Repair Tool to repair corrupt pst files of Microsoft outlook and recover calendar, contact, notes and journal