Windows 10: Email changed from Windows Live mail to Outlook express in past two day not allowing me to...

Hello, I have been a user of the Windows Live Email program many years. Over the past two days (probably through a Microsoft Update) my stored emails (many hundreds) in folders on my desk top have been changed to only being able to be accessed through Outlook Express. I don't use outlook express and wish to continue using Windows Live mail. Would there be someone out there who can advise me on how I have these folders changed back to being able to b e accessed by live mail. When sending a fresh email now I am still able to use live mail however if I save any emails they are storing under only Outlook express.

Thank you in anticipation


Tony

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How to install outlook express on windows xp with explorer 8?

This was going to be my suggestion as well. I just wasn't sure if it worked with XP. It is definitely way better than Outlook Express, and I actually prefer it to regular Outlook as well.

 

How to install outlook express on windows xp with explorer 8?

This is an awkward problem to solve and one I don't think is worth the time and effort.

The OP would be better off either using a modern webmail service like gmail or outlook.com or using a modern email client like Windows Live Mail like FX-GMC suggested or Thunderbird from Mozilla. If nothing else, Outlook Distress was notorious for corrupting its data files and losing all your email in one easy step. Not worth it.

 

Windows Live Mail corrupts emails when importing frm Outlook Express 6


I was using a Windows XP desktop and Outlook Express 6 exclusively for my emails. It was set up to do automatic nightly backups of all messages by copying the following folder:


Code: C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express[/quote]
Yesterday the hard drive on that XP machine crashed and now I'm trying to set up a new desktop that is running Windows 10 pro.


My main goal is to set up a mail program that will allow to import all of my emails from Outlook Express that also works in a similar fashion. (In other words that Metro mail app that Windows 10 has would not work!)


So I downloaded Windows Live Mail 2012 and went to File -> Import -> Messages -> Outlook Express 6 and specified a copy of the folder above.


Unfortunately when the importing process was done, first of all the inbox was empty. Eventually I was able to find it buried in a storage folder. Well, inconvenient, but OK. But then when I pulled it up, I could not recognize my messages. It seemed like a big chunk of them was missing.


Unfortunately I don't have access to the Outlook Express on a computer that crashed. Instead I had an old copy in a VM that was done back in Sept. 2015. So I did the same exporting process just to test. Here's how the inbox looks like in Outlook Express:






And here's how it looks when I import it into WLM:






As you see a bunch of messages are missing and the inbox itself looks totally different.

What am I doing wrong here?