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Outlook Express transfer to Outlook in Windows 7 or 8

If you are using Outlook Express on a Windows 7 computer, you may have difficulty transferring your inbox, folders and address book without some help of Outlook. If you don’t know this, you cannot just transfer Outlook Express data to Outlook on Windows 7 or 8 without the help of more software. Using Outlook is the best idea, if you can get a copy of Outlook 2010 or lower on the Windows XP computer, you can import Outlook Express into Outlook in a PST file. Then you can transfer that file to Windows 7 or 8 and see the data just fine.

If you don’t have a copy of Outlook 2010 or lower, then you might have to install Windows Live Mail (via Windows Essentials) you can then import your Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail, then view it on Windows 7 or Windows 8 and then download to Outlook. Yeah, it’s kind of an email hot mess! I have had to do this before for clients, and it’s not easy. Usually a 2 hour job for a skilled Outlook technician. I’ll even go above and beyond to say that uploading everything to Windows Live Mail, you might even have to transfer those files to the new computer and import them, as it’s been awhile since I had to work on a job like this.

Now if you are backing up your computer now, be sure to back up the Outlook Express files for sure, if you know your Windows XP computer is starting to fail, call a technician now to get the files brought over to your new computer as it’s somewhat difficult to fix with a dead computer. If this is the case, a technician will have to get the Outlook Express files to another computer that can read the files and Outlook just cannot do that without it being imported in via Outlook directly on the computer or via Windows Live Mail. Thunderbird can maybe import them too.

Technically a challenge, this tech rates this job as “difficult”