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• How can I go about sending new e-mail address to all my contacts from Outlook Express?

  New mailing address of email to all my contacts from outlook express

  How can I go on to send new email to all my contacts from outlook express address

  The same way send you a message to all your contacts.

  1. Open a new message window
  2. Click on the button to
  3. Click a contact to highlight
  4. Use the CTRL + A to select all the
  5. Announcement for the To (probably better add the BCC field
  6. Create the message about your new address and include it in the message
  7. Press send

  The only problem you may find is that ISP recipients limit how much you can send at once, so if the message fails, you may need to make in a few groups.

• Windows Live Mail 2010 has been automatically upgraded to version 2011. How can I install my Live Mail 2010 contacts and Outlook Express?

  Windows Live Mail 2010 has been automatically upgraded to version 2011. How can I install my Live Mail 2010 contacts and Outlook Express?

  Am operating Vista and you have copied the list of Contacts of Outlook Express on the desktop.

  Windows Live Mail has its own site support and forums at the Windows Live Solution Center . They can help you better can we in this forum of Windows.

  For help on Windows Live Mail, a good starting point is the Portal Client Mail .

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  Most Microsoft Valuable Professional

• How can I create a list of contacts on Outlook Express. I found the answer in help, but cannot locate elements, on what he asked me to click

  Remember - this is a public forum so never post private information such as numbers of mail or telephone!

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  How can I create a group or a list of contacts on Outlook Express.  I found the answer in help, but cannot locate elements, on what he asked me to click

  • You have problems with programs
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  • Recent changes to your computer
  • What you have already tried to solve the problem

  If you're running Vista, you have Windows Mail, not Outlook Express. These instructions for adjustment of these two programs.

  To create a group of contacts:

  You can create a single group name (or alias) to use when sending a message to several contacts at the same time. Just create a group name and add individual contacts to the group. Then just type the name of the group in the box for when you send mail.

  1. in the address book, select the folder in which you want to create a group. Click New in the toolbar, and then click New Group.
  2. the Properties dialog box opens. In the group name box, type the name of the group.
  3. There are several ways to add people to the Group:
  a. to add a person from your address book list, click Select members, and then click a name in the address book list.
  (b) to add a person directly to the group without adding the name to your address book, type the person's name and e-mail address at the bottom of the Properties dialog box and then click Add.
  to add a person to both the Group and your address book, click New Contact and enter the appropriate information.
  (d) to use a directory service, click Select members, and then click search. Select a directory service in the drop-down list at the end of the text box. After finding and selecting an address, it is automatically added to your address book.
  4. Repeat for each addition until your group is defined.

  Note

  a. to view a list of your groups separately from the list of address book in the address book on the view menu, make sure that folders and groups is selected.
   
  b. you can create multiple groups, and contacts can belong to several groups.

  If you want to send to a group without addresses are displayed for each recipient, open the address book and make a new entry. Enter the name of the group in the area of the display, but use your address. (Some Internet service providers require a legitimate address in the line to and recipients will know it's from the Group).

  Click on the button to. Enter the name of the group using your address. Enter the group in the BCC field.

  Bruce Hagen MS - MVP [Mail]

• Import contacts from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail

  I just bought a new Dell computer and it has Windows 7.  My old computer has Windows XP.  Can I import my list of contacts from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail and, if so, how can I go about it?

  I selected files, folders and search under the heading Windows as I couldn't see Windows Live Mail in the list of topics.

  Thank you.

  Open the address book in OE and file | Export | Address book (wab) and save it to the desktop. Copy it to a flash drive. Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.
   
  For WLMail 2009: Open list of Contacts in WLMail, (go |) Contacts in the Menu bar) and the file | Import | Address book (wab) Windows and the point where you saved it.
   
  For WLMail 2011: Switch to the contacts window (click on the book icon to the address at the foot of the folders pane, or press Ctrl-3). Click on the import button, select address book (wab) Windows and point on where it was saved.
   
  Note: If you use a CD or a DVD instead of a flash drive, after placing on the new machine you must remove the read-only attribute in the properties before you import.
   
  
  Windows Live Mail help is in this forum
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/Forum/LIVEmail?tab=all 
   
   
   
   

• My old pc crashed lost all contacts in Outlook Express

  My old pc that has Windows XP crashed and I lost all my contacts I had in Outlook Express. I use MS Hotmail now through my IP firmware-how can I enter in Outlook Express to retrieve my contacts. Help

  In the PC crashed, the address book was a .wab file (hidden), but if you can enter the old PC or connect the hard drive to the new PC, I don't see how you could retrieve the addresses.

• After repairing my computer, I lost all my Outlook Express contacts.

  Original title: lost addresses email, file

  After a repair, I lost all my addresses in Outlook Express (6), as well has a record of correspondence I put in place to keep old emails from family, friends, Church, etc. How find/resurrect these things?

  My provider has helped me regain the email through Outlook Express (6), but it said that I needed help from Microsoft to regain access to my address e-mail & correspondence folder.

  Hello

  Please follow the steps below.

  Method 1:

  Search folder for *.wab using the link below.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308895

  Method 2:

  Once you have located the address book, try to import the address book into Outlook Express using the link below.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/175017

  See also the below mentioned link.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/172689

• Upgrade to Microsoft 2010 and have now lost all my Outlook Express emails!

  Hello

  Yesterday, I upgraded my pc from 2007 to 2010 from microsoft, I had no idea that outlook express is no longer taken in charge & a so don't had not saved anything express before the upgrade.

  I used two Outlook + outlook express to run 2 separate email accounts.  How Outlook works well and moved all my old mails/contacts.  Express however is not found, I can't open it.

  I have installation the other account on the new perspectives, he transferred the emails from the last 30 days, which lie on the mail server, but nothing beyond that, plus all of my files are missing & what is the most important!

  Please help me, I got hundreds of emails that are very important to me and I am in despair that they have all been lost.

  Thank you, Emma

  If you use Windows XP (which I assume you're OE does not work on any latest system) then by installing Office does NOT remove Outlook Express.

  He can't because Outlook Express is part of Internet Explorer, which is part of Windows.

  I think that Outlook has replced just the icon of EO for mail.

  Do a search for msimn.exe

  You should find it in c:\program files\outlook express.

  Then you can add back a shortcut on your desktop.

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• I can't delete one of my e-mail contacts in Outlook Express.

  I CAN'T DELETE ONE OF MY CONTACTS. IN MS OUTLOOK EXPRESS 2000? \

  original title: I can NOT REMOVE all THE CONTACTS of NY.

  Try to go to file | Identities and setup a new identity.  Then go to file | Import | Address book and import the address book from the old identity.  Then see if you can remove contacts from this identity.  If so, you can use file | Import | Messages to bring them from the old identity.

  Steve

• lost email from Outlook express

  I write in the name of the customer.

  Here is the original client message.

  "I have prepared this in word & pasted here for it to be faster." I have windows XP & outlook illicitedes'm having problems with outlook express. I lost d ' assign e-mails from 2007 to 2 September 2011.  I know that I do not remove them. The problems I encounter are manifold.  When I send a mail, I get an error & instead of going into my box sent out to in my Outbox. Here, I must send again & that move to another box (Inbox) out of the shipping box or it will keep returning the message out. I can't move it to the sent box it will not allow him. now, I have another problem. After all this my mail is not going out at all now. I can receive but not answer. My biggest concern is return all these emails who disappeared on 2 September 2011 in the morning. they are important as long as it had to do with the legal procedures. There are approximately 1 500 e-mails all the way from June 2007 to September 2, 2011. If you go to the bottom of the list of my emails, you will see that I received emails from September 2, 2011 after what happened and then the one that precedes it is June 2007. I hope you can help me because I need these emails in return.

  You too have reached the limits of the OE dbx files.
   
  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.
   
  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  Recovery methods:
   
  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.
   
  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.
   
  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.
   
  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.
   
  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.
   
  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.
   
  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.
   
  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:
   
  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx
   
  And see:
  
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
   
  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:
   
  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.
   
  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 
   
  And backup often.
   
  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx  

• How to transfer a list of contacts from Outlook Express to Windows Mail Contact Group

  Hello

  We have a XP computer running Outlook express and a Vista computer running Windows mail to work, we have the contact groups on our Outlook Express that we want to transfer in windows mail, is it possible. I tried using the export and import function on both and it does not work. I can't wait to hear your advice.

  Hi SarahPascoe,

  1. What are the steps that you followed to import and export contacts?

  I suggest you to take a look at the following article link and check if it helps:

  Import messages into Windows Mail from Outlook Express

  Import, export, or change the format for contacts

  I hope this helps.

• Lost folders in outlook express

  I use ouutlook express 6 as my primary e-mail use and have encountered a problem. from the beginning until today that I lost the sub folders in my Inbox. I do not have to delete or move, and the only thing that comes to mind is that when I received an e-mail from someone who asks a receipt that it somehow has creatted my problem. However, the reception was for a known consignee and so I don't think it was doubtful. in any case I'm not wise on computers so that has baffled me and don't know where to look. I searched my computer with keywords (file names), but that was unsuccessful. only other thing to mention is that I ran ashampoo winoptimizer 2007, but can't see how this would create the problem.

  The message store folder is the Outlook Express folder that you did drag the dbx files. My first reply gave you this place.

  Part of the process, is that they have to be out before the newly created folder will recognize them.

  Create a folder in the folder tree OE with the same name as one of your files. For example: you have a Mail.dbx file. Create a folder in the OE and the name of this Mail.

  Open this repetoire and then close OE. You must complete this part.

  Now, go back to Windows Explorer. Expand the path to the Outlook Express folder, but do not open it.

  Click on the desktop at the top of the folder hierarchy. In the right pane, you will see all your desktop icons and dbx files.

  Drag the Mail.dbx file to the Outlook Express folder. When it becomes blue, let it go and you should see the prompt to overwrite it. Click Yes.

  Make lather, rinse, repeat for other folders. Bruce Hagen MS - MVP [Mail]

• How can I move mail and contacts from Outlook Express on a computer that is running XP Pro to Windows Live Mail on another computer in Windows 7?

  Can someone please provide a solution step by step? Most of the messages and the links here seems to apply to a different situation, as OE6 and WLM residing on the SAME computer, or under the SAME operating system. Not so in my case.

  I see that Windows Live Mail is supposed to be able to import contacts and emails OE6. But where am I supposed to put old OE6 files on the computer so that Windows Live Mail can find them? OE6 only let me "export" to Outlook or Microsoft Exchange, nor of what exists on my old computer, nor my other!

  Transfer of data from Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail:

  For messages:

  Copy the * ENTIRE * OE message store folder to a flash drive. (Folders.dbx must be included). Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail. Open WLMail and: file | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.

  Location of OE message store:

  In OE: Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, Win2K & Win2K3 the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.

  For addresses:

  Open the address book in OE and file | Export | Address book (wab) and save it to the desktop. Copy it to a flash drive. Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.

  Open the Contacts list in WLMail, (go |) Contacts in the Menu bar) and the file | Import | Address book (wab) Windows and the point where you saved it.

  Note: If you use a CD or a DVD instead of a flash drive, after placing on the new machine you must remove the read-only attribute in the properties before you import.

  Ref: Bruce Hagen MS - MVP

• lost emails from outlook express (email popup for optusmail)

  I closed my outlook express browser window, then reopened and my emails have all gone replaced by I have new message welcoming me to outlook express (as if I was a new user).  enamel is held from optusnet account and my emails are gone from here.  I tried to search for them by seraching for pst files (email) on computer, but with no luck, someone problems like this before, or know how I can get these emails.  zTo me prob there always there on the computer but I don't know how to access

  Soon all the world

  I use outlook express.  I have seen u once a file via outlook express you can see it is no longer in optus webmail,.

  There is an option to leave messages on the server, but we're going to handle this later.

  In this new instance of OE, click: file | Identities | Manage identities. Is listed on the other? If so, after back now. If this is not the case, continue on.

  Do this first:

  In Windows XP, Win2K & Win2K3 the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.

  Now that these files are visible, do a search for *.dbx

  If you find a folder named Outlook Express, open and see if it contains your missing files/messages.

  Post back with your results before you continue.

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• I lost access to Outlook Express

  My icon in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen for Outlook Express disappeared.  I can get it back, but it does not stay on the bootom of the screen when I close.

  Hi rsmastin,

  Follow the steps below:

  a. Click Start, point to programs and then point to the program for outlook express.

  b. right click on the program and then click on create a shortcut.

  c. Click Start, and then point to programs.

  d. you should see the shortcut in the list with (2) after the name.

  e. click the shortcut, and then drag the shortcut on the desktop.

  f. on the desktop, right-click the shortcut and then click Rename.

  g. press the RIGHT ARROW key and tap BACK four times to remove the number (2).

  h. click the shortcut, and then drag it to the quick launch on the taskbar bar.

  With regard to:

  Samhrutha G S - Microsoft technical support.

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