Outlook Express with XP Home Edition

[Guest]

I presently have Windows 98 first edition. It comes with Outlook Express 6,
that I use to send and to take emails. When I switch to XP Home Edition in
October, will there be any problems in re-installing Outlook Express 6, and
then importing from an external device (a CD) the emails I have saved on it?
Thanks.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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I presently have Windows 98 first edition. It comes with Outlook
Express 6, that I use to send and to take emails. When I switch to
XP Home Edition in October, will there be any problems in
re-installing Outlook Express 6, and then importing from an external
device (a CD) the emails I have saved on it? Thanks.

Outlook Express is part of Internet Explorer, and Windows XP comes with IE6
already, and hence OE. No worries.

You don't want to do an export/import, tho - check out www.insideoe.com for
backup/restore/migrate questions, and post OE questions in
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

 

[KEKA]

I presently have Windows 98 first edition. It comes with Outlook Express
6,
that I use to send and to take emails. When I switch to XP Home Edition
in
October, will there be any problems in re-installing Outlook Express 6,
and
then importing from an external device (a CD) the emails I have saved on
it?
Thanks.

No problems at all. If you've saved all the.dbx files to a cd just make
sure you copy them to a folder on your hard drive before you import them
into OE.

 

[NewScience]

No problems ... remember to save your OE AddressBook and Outlook Contacts
files.

 

[NewScience]

Also forgot ... save your OE Rules and Outlook Rules

 

[Alias~-]

No problems at all. If you've saved all the.dbx files to a cd just make
sure you copy them to a folder on your hard drive before you import them
into OE.

And remove the read only on all the files.

Alias

 

[Guest]

How do I save the OE Address Book? I checked, and there seems to be no way
I can save all the addresses in one folder easily, without saving them
individually and then creating a folder myself to put them in. Must be an
easier way of doing this.

 

[Alias~-]

How do I save the OE Address Book? I checked, and there seems to be no way
I can save all the addresses in one folder easily, without saving them
individually and then creating a folder myself to put them in. Must be an
easier way of doing this.

Search for .wab. That's your address book. Copy it to the back up media.

Alias

 

[Guest]

Where and how do I search for .wab?

Search for .wab. That's your address book. Copy it to the back up media.

Alias

 

[Alias~-]

Where and how do I search for .wab?

Start/Search. Make sure that you don't have files hidden. You can check
that from Tools in the Search applet. Tools/Folder Options/View/Advanced

Alias

 

[NewScience]

Each User's Address Book is under their personal Address Book Folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book

There you will locate the *.wab file. It is only one file and can be
imported from your backup media.

Remember to save the Rules you may have created.

 

[KEKA]

Where and how do I search for .wab?

No need to search, just bring up the address book and click on Help, About
address book and the location of the wab file will be displayed.

 

[PA Bear]

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

OE Files & Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/files/index.htm

OE Registry Keys
http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph)

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
--
OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
OE General newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)