After installing SP3 on Windows 2000, you experience the following:
When you start Outlook Express 6.0, you receive:
Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be loaded.
When you open the Windows Address Book (WAB), you receive:
An error occurred while attempting to open the WAB. Unable to find the WAB.DLL.
When start Outlook 2002, you receive:
The procedure entry point StrTokEx could not be located in the dynamic link library MSOERT2.dll.
To resolve this problem:
01. Close all open programs.
02. Control Panel / Add/Remove Programs /Add/Remove Windows Components.
03. Clear the Outlook Express box.
04. Press Next.
05. Press Finish when it is available.
06. Right-click the Start button and press Explore.
07. Navigate to the %ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express folder, right-click it, and press Rename. Type Old OE and press Enter.
08. Copy / Paste the following to a deleteOE.reg file:
REGEDIT4
\[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\]
\[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\]
\[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\]
\[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WAB\]
\[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C\}\]
\[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\\{7790769C-0471-11d2-AF11-00C04FA35D02\}\]
09. Merge the deleteOE.reg file with your registry or run regedit /s deleteOE.reg.
10. Control Panel / Add/Remove Programs /Add/Remove Windows Components.
11. Check the Outlook Express box.
12. Press Next.
13. Press Finish when it is available.
