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    When I click on my OE icon I get the blue flash screen then a white box on top saying: Outlook Express has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. There is no way I can get it to open. I have tried debugging, rebooting, sfc scannow, uninstalling and reinstalling and now dont know what else to do. Something is obviously corrupted. Can I just download OE6 again from Microsoft or do I have to download IE6 too? Can you still download IE6 or is it all 7 now which I dont want. I am using XP. Thanks
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OE6 - Identity Switch Cancelled - Cannot open OE

Postby John S. » Fri, 08 Aug 2003 17:57:32 GMT 

Anybody have this problem? What is the solution?
I am on Windows 98Se
When I click on the Outlook Express Icon
 (OE rel 6.00.2800.1106)I get the following message and I 
cannot go beyond this msg - OE will not open.
Msg "Identity Switch cancelled - The current identity 
could not be changed because one of the applications was 
unable to switch. Close any dialog boxes or other 
applications before trying again."

Nothing else is running.
I went to the support Knowledge base and got some possible 
solutions. Apparantly this issue has happened with OE5.5, 
perhaps it still continues with OE 6.0.
Solution is to edit the Registry - which I am hesitant to 
do.
What if I reload OE6 again perhaps a later version will 
have a fix on this problem.
I downloaded OE6 back in May 2003, it has been working 
fine until 2 days ago.
I still have InternetExplorer working on the internet plus
SBCyahoo mail.
But I want OE6 working to get all my very important email 
and address book info.
Any solutions thoughts will be much appreciated.
thanks

John S.
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Re: OE6 - Identity Switch Cancelled - Cannot open OE

Postby PA Bear » Sat, 09 Aug 2003 05:08:50 GMT 

Pay a visit to Windows Update, John.  Your anti-virus application should be
disabled the entire time BTW.
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
 http://www.**--****.com/
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1.Identity Switch Cancelled - Will not open Outlook Express 

Everytime I launch I get the following error:

Identity Switch Cancelled
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I reviewed Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 224463 and 
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There is no Account ID in the registry.

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> Re:  Outlook
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> The full error message reads:
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