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I have my hotmail brought to Outlook Express and when I went to send something to my friend I didn't monitor the size. It was 11MB not 10 MB and Hotmail will not send anything over 10. Now everytime I want to send something out via outlook express I have to send it, let it sit in the outbox and reboot the program. The version I am running is 2003. When I try to delete the message that is too big it won't let me telling me that Outlook has already started transmitting the document. What am I supposed to do to get rid of the critter?

Try setting it to Work Offline then delete the file.

You could find and delete your Outbox.dbx

I tried the offline, didn't work, outlook had already started to transmit the message. As for the dbx i searched and couldn't find it. Any idea where i should look.

Click Start>Find> Files or Folders
Type in outbox.dbx, search in your C: drive, then highlight and right click then delete. Make sure you don't have Outlook Express open when you do it or you will get error.

There is no outbox.dbx on my computer

Is this particular email in the Outbox?
If it is drag it into the drafts folder or another folder then delete it. This way its not trying to be sent.
Let us know if this worked

try renaming the file you tried to send. it should choke and give an error

it wont let me touch any of the messages because they have already began transmission. and yes it has done it again, I have two messages

Just a silly thought but have you tried to remove Hotmail from Outlook? See what happens, you can always add it again.

didn't work. tried deleting the outlook.pst going to see if that works after i reinstall

that also didn't work, and now i can't bring back hotmail. It says there is a registry error or something. I have tried a complete uninstall and reinstall. Now I think that I need to find a new Outlook.pst file. any idea where to get one?

You may want to try repairing using the
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Well I got it back to normal now, I just need to get those messages out of the outbox

Can you please tell us how you finally got it back to normal. I think we are all interested concidering this was a huge P.I.T.A. for you

So the oversized messages are still in the outbox?

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In Outlook Express, click Tools>Options.
Under the General tab, Send/Receive section, untick the option "send and receive messages at start up." Click Apply and close Outlook Express.
Now open Outlook Express again and see if you get the chance to delete the message in the Outbox.