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re: Outlook express messages and address book Monday, March 8, 2010 at 2:04 pm Posted by RaytheBear (163 messages posted) Hi Sandy, First thing, when you say you have Outlook, are you talking about Outlook which comes with Word? Because Outlook no longer is installed with Win7, you have to download Windows Live Mail from MS which of course is free. Or did your PC man do a workaround and Installed the Outlook from Vista or XP. Anyways, I believe Outlook is somewhat similar to WLM, so go to File/Import/Messages and then click on the Browse button and point it to the directory: Old Windows and then find the Sub directory until you find the area where your messages are kept. Same for the address', unless it is WLM, then, Click on your Contacts Icon and from there you click on File/Import and choose the format, in my case it was WAB or Comma Separated Values (.CSV) to be honest I don't remember which one, this Old man forgets things quickly. Good Luck Ray On Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 6:10 pm, sandy wrote: >Hi, >I have had a new harddrive and Windows 7 installed on my pc. I had the computer man >create a file called old windows install on my computer so I could access it to get >my photos etc. My question is how can I get my old email messages and address's from >Outlook express and put them into Outlook. I have read a few other posts but they >sounded like they were doing an upgrade to Outlook, whereas mine is a clean install. >Thanks, >SAndy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Outlook express messages and address book Monday, March 8, 2010 at 5:35 pm Posted by sandy (53 messages posted) Thanks Ray, I fiddled around and miraculously managed to get my address book across,yay! But still cant find where the messages are to bring them across. Thanks very much for your help. I also would not be able to explain how I did it, but it worked! Cheers. On Monday, March 8, 2010 at 2:04 pm, RaytheBear wrote: >Hi Sandy, >First thing, when you say you have Outlook, are you talking about Outlook which comes >with Word? Because Outlook no longer is installed with Win7, you have to download >Windows Live Mail from MS which of course is free. Or did your PC man do a workaround >and Installed the Outlook from Vista or XP. >Anyways, I believe Outlook is somewhat similar to WLM, so go to File/Import/Messages >and then click on the Browse button and point it to the directory: Old Windows and >then find the Sub directory until you find the area where your messages are kept. > Same for the address', unless it is WLM, then, Click on your Contacts Icon and from >there you click on File/Import and choose the format, in my case it was WAB or Comma >Separated Values (.CSV) to be honest I don't remember which one, this Old man forgets >things quickly. > >Good Luck >Ray > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Outlook express messages and address book Monday, March 8, 2010 at 5:52 pm Posted by sandy (53 messages posted) Just had a look in help regarding the email messages I want to export from Outlook express. It looks like I have to have outlook express running on this computer or another and then save from there and then import, whereas I just have the old windows install file on my computer without outlook express installed. I can see the messages as dbx files but they wont come across. Ideas anyone please? On Monday, March 8, 2010 at 5:35 pm, sandy wrote: >Thanks Ray, I fiddled around and miraculously managed to get my address book across,yay! >But still cant find where the messages are to bring them across. Thanks very much >for your help. I also would not be able to explain how I did it, but it worked! Cheers. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Outlook express messages and address book Monday, March 8, 2010 at 10:08 pm Posted by RaytheBear (163 messages posted) This link might be of help. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook&tid=01074e16-a510-47bd-b782-6597f2a316b8&mid=f2669988-19ac-4333-ba9e-aea8d146b7a5&cat=en_US_e526cc94-8f25-4469-add6-a0e5ea45f48f&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=5 Ray On Monday, March 8, 2010 at 5:52 pm, sandy wrote: >Just had a look in help regarding the email messages I want to export from Outlook >express. It looks like I have to have outlook express running on this computer or >another and then save from there and then import, whereas I just have the old windows >install file on my computer without outlook express installed. I can see the messages >as dbx files but they wont come across. >Ideas anyone please? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Outlook express messages and address book Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 1:08 am Posted by sandy (53 messages posted) Thanks Ray, you are a legend! All done. Sandy On Monday, March 8, 2010 at 10:08 pm, RaytheBear wrote: >This link might be of help. >http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook&tid=01074e16-a510-47bd-b782-6597f2a316b8&mid=f2669988-19ac-4333-ba9e-aea8d146b7a5&cat=en_US_e526cc94-8f25-4469-add6-a0e5ea45f48f〈=&cr=&sloc=&p=5 > >Ray > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 7 Discussion Forum