Chas9

My wife uses Windows 2000 Pro, I use Windows XP Pro. Two days ago, at the morning boot she said come look at this, a windows file reports as corrupted, windows will need to be repaired, the suggestion was to "repair" the installation using the setup CD, I tried that but kept asking for a restore floppy disk did not have one. She is very active in a large Family History Society so I did not want to re-install windows including a fresh format because she would have lost hundreds of bytes of saved info, yes I know we should have backed up all her stuff, did some but not all. So I re-installed windows but choose install over the old system and changed the windows folder from WNNT TO WNNT2. This went fine everything worked, we updated SP to #4, along with IE6 and some 60 or more security fixes, setup e-mail, the web(cable), re-installed Office 2003, etc. (note: I re-naimned the old WNNT to "this is the old wnnt" so the system would not even consider look at that folder.

Previous is how I got to here. Oulook Express does not report the hudreds of saved e-mail messages that she kept within "local folders" because of the necessity of saving these saved e-mails I had saved the dbx files reported in documents and settings under the administrators name, about 3 months before, so I checked the "indentities" folder and to my surprise they were all still there in the Outlook Express folder below "indentities". Now I don't need the saved ones. How to I tell the system to read them with this new install. Undoubtedly the system registry must be changed so that the administrator logon will recognise these e-mail messages.
Sorry this is so long but wanted the reader to know what I have done. To see the dbx files the user must change folder view options to "show hidden files and folder" and remove the check mark "hide protected operating system file(Recommended)", after the dbx's were copied and save I put the view changes back as they were.