Outlook Express To Windows Live Mail
On the computer running Windows XP, do the following: The folder that contains the Outlook Express messages is marked as a hidden folder in Windows. To view this hidden folder, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Appearance and Themes, and then click Folder Options. Click the View tab, and under Hidden files and folders. In Outlook Express click on the Tools menu, Accounts menu item, Mail tab. For each account listed there click on the account and then the Properties button. In the General tab: Take note of your Name and E-mail address configured.
. Outlook Express's day has come and gone. It's unsupported and often loses email. I'll explain what I think you should do instead. In the wake of Microsoft's announced withdrawal of support for Outlook.com synchronization with Windows Live Mail 2012, I review some of the implications, including an update to my position on getting free email programs from Microsoft.
Gmail can be used to handle email for almost any email address. I'll show you how to route your email through Gmail, and why it's worth considering. One of the problems with Outlook Express is difficulty in exporting data. Your best bet is to find a more recent software to help with the migration.Posted: May 19, 2010in:Shortlink:Tagged. New Here?Let me suggest my to get you started.Of course I strongly recommend you - there's a ton of information just waiting for you.Finally, if you just can't find what you're looking for,!
Leo Who?I'm and I've been playing with computers since I took a required programming class in 1976. I spent over 18 years as a software engineer at Microsoft, and after 'retiring' in 2001 I started in 2003 as a place to help you find answers and become more confident using this amazing technology at our fingertips. Hi Leo!I’ve done this on a few occasions; once when I installed a new hard drive (then it was just from xp to xp); then when going from xp to vista, and finally recently on a new machine going to Win 7.It’s as you say!
I did find though, that instead of taking the details of my email accounts (3) I went into Outlook Express, Options (I think), Acconts, and from there could simply “export” the email account. Then on Win 7, when it asked me to set up a new account I declines, but continued the process, and then imported the email accounts, and all the settings, passwords etc were intact!KC. Excellent, clear article for transferring OE data and settings from XP to Windows 7. A lot of people have trouble with this.I have just one comment – you said transferring your e-mail account configuration is not an automated process but I do this regularly.
In OE, click on Tools – Accounts – Mail tab – Export. This will export the whole account with pop and smtp settings, user name and password as an.iaf file. Then reverse the process importing the.iaf file directly into Windows Live Mail from its stored location.Alan.
If you have Windows 7 (except for the Home and Starter editions), Microsoft allows free download and installation of Microsoft Virtual PC and a legitimate version of XP. If you take the few minutes necessary to go through this procedure, you can continue to use Outlook Express within the virtual machine.
Installation and use is simple (Microsoft guides you through the whole process). To answer the question, “Why go to all the trouble?”, here are my answers: (1) It’s not much trouble; (2) keeping a copy of Outlook Express working alongside Windows 7 allows you to keep both Outlook Express’s “Identities” feature, which a lot of us don’t want to give up, and its neat, uncluttered, and straightforward interface; (3) Mail Rules. If you use mail rules to sort your messages as they arrive, the rules can be directly imported from your old installation to the new one. As far as I know, this can’t be done with either of the other programs (and setting up new mail rules in Live Mail is torture); and finally (4) speed. Even on the semi-crippled virtual version of XP (only 512 megs CPU RAM and limited video RAM), OE still blows away Live Mail and Thunderbird in speed of downloading and sorting new messages. Don’t ask me why — I’m just a user, not an engineer.
(I’ll probably get a lot of flack about that observation.) The other e-mail option, Microsoft Outlook, is not really an option for a lot of people because of its cost. Wouldn’t it be nice if Microsoft, just once, spent its resources in delivering something new!!!! Over and over I see them investing resources in creating the illusion of progress by rearranging things or adding to Windows things that existed long before or that others are already handling way better.
Over and over I see MS stealing ideas from others and ramming them into Windows so everyone has to pay for them whether they want them ornot. (Did you notice how much more expensive Windows is than it used to be?)Examples. I find Thunderbird a wonderful program, easily movable from machine to machine (because of its flat file system), and well featured.
If it were only eMail, I would not say much but it with everything. We already had Remote Desktop in the 90’s. It was called pcAnywhere and it ran under DOS!!!! If you needed it, you bought it, if you did not, you did not buy it and it did not cost anything. How about browsers? We had Netscape’s Navigator and others.
Microsoft squashed them by forcing IE on us building it into Windows. I could go on but Leo would say I am just ranting way off point!!. Thanks Leo, for the awesome step-by-step instructions for moving our outlook express from our XP machine to our new Windows 7 machine for Windows Live Mail.
This is actually for my husband who will be thrilled he did not lose his emails with the switch. I am using Windows Mail on my laptop with Vista.) Now we will have to learn the new bells and whistles with WLM, but within the short time I used it, it seems to be no real big deal. Thanks again. I recommend this article to anyone who is not a computer expert. You made it all so very clear. I have several email addresses in Outlook Express (OE).
Your instructions were perfect and work great for my default email identity in OE. How can I retrieve the emails and assoicated files with each email address identity? This is what I have done so far without success. I moved the different OE files to the new Win 7 machine, set up the new identities in Live mail, clicked on one of the other email address, did the File – import, and received “No messages can be found in this folder or another applicaiton is runnig that has the required file open.” I verified that the file had the OE information it it, I tried it with another identity, received the same results.
I confirmed each identity with its corresponding identity number, saw the file folders related to each email, etc.I am receiving emails on the different identities I set up in Live Mail, but I really need the other emails and the folers assoicated with them installed on the new machine. Can you help. I disconected my old computer(xp) and set up my new one(windows7).
I realize that outloox express is not available anymore and I am fine w/ that. However Can I get my old address book from my outlook account?
I actually called microsoft before disconnecting my old machine and I could have sworn the tech told me that once I signed up w/ Windows Live mail I would be able to export my contact info. I have called Microsoft 5 times and my calls are getting droped or sent to limbo.
Also is it possible to keep my old e-mail address? Thank-You very much for any info/ adviceMike. Leo, I read your article and feel encouraged however I am concerned there might be system requirements in order to update windows since my computer is so old. I have a desktop with XP for home and outlook 2003.
Outlook Express Para Windows Live Mail
I have no idea what version of explorer we are running. We are trying to put off replacing this dinosaur until after August (bonus check time, yeah!) After reading the above and not being too techie myself I worry that since our computer was built in 2003 that it might not be able to “handle” windows 7. And to clarify, does upgrading to windows 7 upgrade my explorer version? I have no idea what version I have but I do know that various sites we visit recommend updating our browser.
We’ve just been scared to make a leap for fear of crashing this old dinosaur. Is there anything we should first check before switching to windows 7 and transferring our outlook?
Thanks so much! Very useful article – thank you.With a new PC build to replace old fried MB & HD, the plunge was taken to go with Win7. Oh, the niightmares of incompatability, not to mention having to adapt & accept changes. My greatest concern here with WindowsLive is that messages appear ‘read’ when details are shown in the preview pane.
Move Outlook Express To Windows Live Mail
Not sure if this is the same as having been ‘opened’. In OE, one had the choice to deny any message becoming automatically read. For messages that ‘appear’ to be clean but contain malitious content, doesn’t WindowsLive leave you vulnerable?Norton Internet security is installed and running. I have been using vista for a while and then decided to try the Windows 8 pre release. When I first loaded the pre release I thought that I had lost all my emails (Outlook 2007) but then when I reinstalled Microsoft Office 2007 and all my emails came back. (Phew)Naturally when the final release for Windows 8 was made available I thought Great and updated my version. Again my emails were goneThis time however after reinstalling Microsoft Office 2007 my emails are still missingFound WAB in windows.old but for some reason it is empty which leads me to believe that it is a new WAB and not the originalCan you PLEASE helpTane.
Heres a (Very belated) alternative. As cheap 2nd hand Win 7 machines are now available the 2nd wave of upgraders are on the hunt.When migrating to Windows 7 (I’m sure 8 as well) from XPyou can use “Windows Easy Transfer”.Its already part of windoes 7 and you can load an XP version from MSeg:This will copy over and set up multiple user acounts & data all at once. (You just need both machines on your local network)Its extreamly basic (Ok you’ll need to set up a lot of your NON MS software again) BUT you can then start Windows Live and it automatically imports the old OutlookExpress data pulled over by Easy Transfer.This may also be the answer to those with multiple accounts and p/w’s.Geoff – Ex Field tech for 20+ years Now I fix Water Blasters and Mobility scooters. It’s a strange ol world. When I open windows explorer to paste the outlook store folder my windows explorer does not display the address bar to paste it into. After several searches in the help menu from the windows help site none of their suggestions provides me the address bar that you show in your picture. The only thing I got was a button saying address but it does nothing.
Any advice you can offer as I am getting ready to update to a windows 7 computer & want to copy my Outlook Express 6 info into Windows Live Mail. After clicking hyperlink to page with Windows Essentials for Windows 7, these comments appeared:Windows Essentials 2012 suite reached end of support on January 10, 2017.As of January 10, 2017, Windows Essentials 2012 is no longer supported on Windows 10, and is unavailable for download.Windows Essentials 2012 included Windows Movie Maker, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Family Safety and the OneDrive desktop app for Windows. Already installed applications will continue to work as they do today.NoteAny websites offering free downloads of Windows Movie Maker are not offering sanctioned Microsoft products. Be cautious as these products may contain viruses or hidden costs. Before commenting please:. Read the article.
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