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    Question Adding Outlook Express to a Win-7 Home Premium Machine

    Hey folks:

    Has anyone tried to do a Drag-Copy of all Outlook Express E-Mail Browser folders into a new Win-7 Home Premium 64/32 Bit machine?

    Seems it is a Stand-Alone Program as part of any Win OS from the past, but I'm not too sure about this.

    I really like O-E (simple, easy, fast), but more important, want to recover my Address Book WAB files from my old Win-XP Pro machine, and perhaps some Saved and some InBox e-mail messages.

    I don't know where to put it all in my new Win-7 machine to make it work, though I have all of the file paths recorded to give it a try.

    Then to copy it all over into this unnecessarily and overly complicated Outlook 2003-2007-2010 E-mail browser I have on my new Win-7 64-Bit machine

    I recovered all of the O-E folders from their various locations from my Recovered B-U copy of my old Win XP HDD, which died recently.

    Is there a way to make O-E work if I place the folders into their respective folders with in the Win-7 Programs (x86) folder, and the other Apps & Identities folders where O-E had stashed its Address Book and InBox, etc files, similar to my old Win-XP machine?

    Any help would be appreciated, even if I can only recover my old address book's WAB files.

    Regards,
    SPQR33
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    Never heard of such a thing. There are probably a lot of shared files, so it would be really difficult to extract.

    Did you try an alternative like Thunderbird instead? It's similar to OE.
    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

    How do you import WAB address books into Thunderbird?
    http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=71380

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    Hey Midknyte:
    The best thing about computers is thinking how to do things no one else thought of.
    Since O-E is a 16/32-Bit Free-Standing program, it will be worth the time trying to hack this.
    For me, all I really want is my Address Book back to recover numerous lost e-mail contacts when my Win-XP Pro machine died.
    But if I can recover and then use all of those long saved InBox, etc e-mails from that machine...
    Well, that is just frosting on the cup-cake.
    I plan to do my best hacking to get this to work.
    Should I be successful, I'll post my process to this fine forum.
    Regards to all who viewed and tried to help.
    SPQR33
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    Good luck then. I would at least give Thunderbird a shot, since it's free.

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