It is beyond me why someone would still use Outlook Express unless company’s policies would force him to do so. Many users probably use it because it is there within Windows by default and because it works. If you are one of those users you might like to continue reading this article about password recovery [...]

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“This is a guest post by Ben Carigtan, a technology enthusiast and staff writer at Online-Tech-Tips.” Is your outlook mailbox a mess? Do you miss reading important emails because of the tons of emails you receive on your inbox? Do you want to organize it in such a way that you move a group of [...]

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Outlook Express stores emails in so called dbx files which contain the present but also the deleted messages unless mail folders are compressed regularly. If a database file gets corrupted it does not necessarily mean that everything is lost and unrecoverable ( the reason why does not really matter, could be for instance a hard [...]

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Moving mails and news from Outlook Express into another application can be quite a challenging task. Many mail clients, including Thunderbird, support the import of Outlook Express mails from the default user. The mails of additional users will not be imported during that procedure. One great way to import all mails and all news into [...]

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Some options in Outlook Express can only be changed by editing the Windows Registry. A comfortable way of editing those settings is the application Tweaker for Outlook Express which provides easier access to several of those options and features. Outlook Express Settings and Outlook Express Dialogs are available as tabs in the main program window. [...]

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I spend the morning at a house of a friend who bought a new computer and wanted some of his data transfered from this old computer to the new computer. The old computer was running Windows XP and Outlook Express, the new one was a shiny new Acer Desktop PC running Windows Vista Home Premium [...]

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Microsoft is often not using a standard format which is the case when you take a look at how Outlook Express saves the mails that have been send and received. Outlook Express saves the mails by default in dbx files instead of saving them in the wildly used mbx format which is being used by Thunderbird, Opera and most other email clients.

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I’m not a big fan of Microsoft Outlook but I have to use it at work because of corporate policy. Next to the Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Microsoft Outlook 2003 is having a top spot in my software that I do not want to use but have to list. Some guys at work like the Outlook software and use it at home as well while I’m happy to use Thunderbird at home feeling more at ease with this excellent email client.

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