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Look in windows.old to see if you can find .dbx files (messages) and a .

Dave posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 1:16 PM

Look in windows.old to see if you can find .dbx files (messages) and a .wab
(address book)
On my XP computer, they are in
Data\Identities\{16F20AB5-A9A2-4231-8683-5BAA4260160C}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express"
and


If you find them, copy them all to a temporary directory.
If you can't copy them, you may have a permissions problem.
If you can copy them, open WM and import them.

You can't install OE6 on Vista.