Microsoft Outlook Express is a most popular and widely used mail client, which comes bundled with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Microsoft Outlook Express allows you to create special folders, along with the default folders, to effectively manage your valuable data. Outlook Express data, such as emails, notes, contacts, calendar entries, tasks and so forth, are stored in a data file called DBX. A separate DBX file is created for every special or default folder. All of these Outlook Express folders are managed by a single index folder, known as Store Folder. But in some cases, when you start Microsoft Outlook, it might not start due to corruption to the Store folder or DBX files and thus you can not access your valuable data. In such situations, you need to go for Outlook Express Recovery solutions to retrieve inaccessible data.

In a practical scenario, when you attempt to start Microsoft Outlook Express, instead of getting expected OE window, the program gets stuck and gives you the below given error message:

"Outlook Express FolderSync Window Class: msimn.exe - Application will not start’

Above error message states that there is something wrong with the Outlook Express folders or the Store Folder. The folders are confining Microsoft Outlook Express to start. In such situations, you need to find out the cause of this issue and carry out Outlook Express Repair by sorting it out.

Root of the issue

You might come across this problem if any of the Outlook Express folder such as Inbox.dbx, Sent Items.dbx, Deleted Items.dbx and most probably the Outlook Express Store Folder. In such cases, application does not get required data to start up and thus gives you the above error.

Resolution

If the stored data is not much important for you and you can survive without it, then you can work around this issue by renaming the damaged folders and restart Outlook Express. Upon restart, it will create new folders. In case of DBX file corruption, you need to repair and restore it. Microsoft Outlook Express does not provide any inbuilt tool for Outlook Express Recovery.

In these circumstances, Outlook Express Repair software helps you to retrieve data from damaged DBX files. These applications are quite easy to use and thus do not demand sound and prior technical skills from users' side.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is an effective and advanced solution to repair and restore corrupt DBX files in most of the cases. This software works well with Outlook Express 6.0, 5.5, 5.01 and 5.0. It is designed for Windows Vista, XP and 2000.