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thats the thing! The right toolbar required for this is: E-mail (it needs to be checked) which I have...but I have no send button in the email...I even opened all possible toolbars (formatting,standard etc..)...the send button is not there... And in the main Outlook menue, when you click tools, the very top option should show: send/receive (with further possible expansion send/Receive All...etc...) However this is also missing...? Isnt this strange??? Can you help??

strangely I cannot send any emails, as my send button is gone...also, the send/receive option is gone from the toolbars... Also, I cannot access the incoming server anymore...even though I can still surf the web and access the server via webmail...do I have a virus?

ok problem solved..thanks for your help guys...actually I should have just listend to ripken04. simply reinstalling MS office and all the emails were back in the inbox...thanks a million...

ok so I have this program PC Inspector File Recovery and found in my C drive several *.dbx folders: -Inbox.dbx -Outbox.dbx -Folders.dbx -Offline.dbx However something strange ist that the date these files were modified was 07.11.2004, does it mean the mails between now and then are not in these files? How can I now continue? Are these files any use? How can I retrieve the emails? (do I import the files once I have reinstalled outlook?)

windows search did not yield any results..cannot find any *,dbx folders/files...however using a recovery application, it can locate a lot of *.dbx files and folders...there is just a lot of them, so which one do I choose that contains my emails? How do I continue?

ok thanks, well understood the system recovery feature...so I can basically only retrieve my emails with various recovery apps...however I am really no expert here...how do I know which files or folders really contain my emails...emails...which file extension do they use? basically removed the whole MS office (with add/remove programs)...will it be back on the PC and running normally when I retrieve the files? I am really a beginner here so I am not really familiar with those apps...can someone pls giude me step by step?

I dont understand: the system restore returns your computer to an earlier time...so I should be able to go back to the point where I deleted my outlook...then I can backup my mails...and continue with uninstyalling MS office and reinstalling it... how else can I get my mails back if I cannot do the restore....?

thanks for the liks to these apps...but it does not solve my problem with the system restore...why does it not work? and I really prefer to go back to the earlier PC setting...rather than retrieving the files manually...as I am no expert...

But that does not solve the problem...I need to get my emails back...thats why I want to use system restore...pls help

hi, wanted to restore my PC (XPSP2) to an earlier date (coz I deleted MS office outlook and forgot to backup my mails )...after selecting the restore date, PC boots normally and then error message appears: cannot restore to this date...No changes have been made to PC... Can someone pls help...is there another way to restore the PC to earlier date? I already tried some other dates with the same result... I read in the forum that disabling the system restore and reenabling it could solve the problem...but doin this means I loose all previous restore points... Can anyone help? Thanks