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Defragmentar Windows Live Mail

This document provides a step-by-step guide for compacting, defragmenting, and repairing Windows Live Mail data on Windows Vista and later. It includes instructions for opening an Administrative Command Prompt, executing commands to defragment or repair the data, and resolving potential file permission issues. The document emphasizes the importance of closing Windows Live Mail before performing these operations and provides troubleshooting steps if errors occur.

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Defragmentar Windows Live Mail

This document provides a step-by-step guide for compacting, defragmenting, and repairing Windows Live Mail data on Windows Vista and later. It includes instructions for opening an Administrative Command Prompt, executing commands to defragment or repair the data, and resolving potential file permission issues. The document emphasizes the importance of closing Windows Live Mail before performing these operations and provides troubleshooting steps if errors occur.

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How to compact/defragment and repair Windows Live

Mail data
This procedure works in Windows Vista and later.

1. If Windows Live Mail is open, close it.


2. Open an Administrative Command Prompt:
o Windows 10, 8.1:
1. Press +X on the keyboard (or right-click the Start button in
Desktop mode) to display the Quick Link menu, then click
Command Prompt (Admin).
o Windows 7, Vista:
1. Click the Start button or press the Windows logo key on the
keyboard to bring up the Start Menu.
2. Without clicking anywhere, type cmd but do not hit Enter on the
keyboard.
3. RIGHT-click on cmd.exe (or cmd) beneath Programs (1) and select
Run as administrator.
If the User Account Control window appears, asking Do you want
to allow the following program to make changes to this
computer?, click Yes.

This will open an Administrator: Command Prompt window displaying the


version of Windows and the following prompt:
C:\Windows\system32>

3. Without clicking anywhere:


o To defragment / compact Windows Live Mail data, type (or copy/paste) the
the following (including the quotes):
esentutl.exe -d "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\
Windows Live Mail\Mail.MSMessageStore"
o To repair Windows Live Mail data, type the the following (including the
quotes):
esentutl.exe -p "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\
Windows Live Mail\Mail.MSMessageStore"
4. If you receive any error messages about files being locked, it indicates a Windows
Live Mail process may still be running in the background preventing any
maintenance from being performed on its data. If this happens, restart your
computer and follow the above procedures again. Do NOT open Windows Live
Mail until after these procedures have completed.
5. If you receive the following error message, you may need to fix the file permissions
for the Windows Live Mail message store file:

Windows Live Mail could not be started. The application was unable to open the
Windows Live Mail message store. Your Windows Live Mail mailbox data is
currently being used by another program, such as a virus scanner. Close the
program or wait for it to complete its operation, then open Windows Live Mail
again.
(0x800C0155, 997)

1. Determine who you are currently logged into Windows as:


From within the Administrative Command Prompt window (see step 2
above), type:
whoami
Make note of the username displayed on the next line, for example:
MyMachinename\My Windows Username
2. Take ownership of the Windows Live Mail message store file:
Type (or copy/paste) the the following (including the quotes):
takeown /f "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\
Mail.MSMessageStore"
The following message should now be displayed:
SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "C:\Users\My Windows
Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\
Mail.MSMessageStore" now owned by user
"MyMachinename\My Windows Username".
3. Give yourself full control permissions to the Windows Live Mail message
store file:
Type (or copy/paste) the the following (including the quotes), replacing the
example username with the one you noted after entering the whoami
command above:
icacls "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\
Mail.MSMessageStore" /grant "MyMachinename\My Windows
Username":f
The following should now be displayed:
processed file: C:\Users\My Windows Username\
AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\
Mail.MSMessageStore
Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0
files
You should now be able to open Windows Live Mail.

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