I was using Outlook Express yesterday and it was ok. Today I tried to use it and it won't open. I get a message saying "Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.dll could not be initialized. Outlook Express may not be installed correctly."
Can anyone help??

Hi Howard try this support link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232480
dam sorry the link is for Win98 im still workin on XP!

Here ism the download link for the file http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msoe

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263837 could be a issue or you need to validate the msoe.dll

Go to start run and copy and paste the following in the run box




Please give us feedback whatever solved the issue.

I did that and I got a message saying the file could not be found.
But thanks.

If msoe.dll can't be initialized, and regserv32 can't find it either - then the files aren't located in the path that the computer looks for them in. This can be because the files are missing, or the path statement is corrupted (and even more, less likely problems).

Try searching your system for msoe.dll - you should find it in C:\Program Files\Outlook Express
On my system it's also got several updates and is stored in the dllcache (a total of 6 copies found on my system).

Thanks, will have a look.