Are you confronting an error message while launching Outlook Express? Or the error message pops up during sending/receiving an e-mail? Or are you unable to unable to access the e-mail saved in you Inbox? If the answer to any of the above questions is ‘yes’, then there is high degree of possibility that your DBX file is corrupted or damaged. In most events of a DBX file corruption, the data saved in the DBX file becomes inaccessible. To get over DBX file damage issues in an easy manner, you will need to rename the corrupted DBX file. While this resolution works in most cases, there are some possibilities that the file remains corrupted. To master such severe DBX file corruption scenarios, you will need to restore the file from an updated backup. However, with numerous situations of backup failure or corruption, the user needs to have a commercial Outlook Express Recovery Software.To illustrate the above scenario in detail, consider a real-time case wherein you encounter the below error message while attempting to send or receive mails in Outlook Express:

“Unknown error has occurred. Protocol: SMTP Port: 0 Secure: No [SSL] Error: 0×800c0131″

After the above error message appears, the data saved in the Outlook Express database becomes inaccessible. Furthermore, the same error message appears every time you try to open an e-mail or any other Outlook Express data.

Cause:

The reasons that drives the above error message is corruption of DBX file.

Resolution:

The best answer to resolve corruption of DBX file is by renaming the file using below steps:

1. Select ‘Find’ option after clicking ‘Start’ button.

2. Select ‘Files and Folders’ option.

3. Type ‘folders.dbx’ in the ‘Named’ box.

4. Choose the hard disk partition in the ‘Look In’ box.

5. Click on ‘Find Now’ option.

6. Select the ‘folders.dbx’ file and right-click on it.

7. Select ‘Rename’ and type ‘folder.old’.

8. Click ‘OK’ and restart Outlook Express.

In most cases, the above error message gets resolved after following the above steps. However, if the error message persists, then you will need to repair the file using a third party Outlook Express Recovery utility. Such Outlook Express Recovery tools are readily available on the Internet.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is an ideal Outlook Express Repair Software that is used to overcome DBX file corruption scenarios. Compatible with Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x, the repair application restores repaired file in .eml/.dbx format. It can be installed on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.

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