I followed the recommended MS process and all appeared to have gone to plan; however, I cannot find all the old emails and folders in WLM. I had set up my email accounts manually withn WLM and have been sending and receiving emails satisfactorily. Can you please help me find my old emails in WLM. Windows Live Mail is, but Windows Mail is not. You can reinstate Windows Mail with a few tricks.

Some manufacturers preload Windows Live Mail on their new computers, so check before you start downloading. I have set up Windows Live mail for quite a few customers migrating from XP to Windows 7, and most of them are quite happy with the change. A few miss the identities feature, but with a few rules, you can set Windows Mail up to deliver messages from different email addresses to different folders. Most of the time, my customers are happy with that setup, and usually comment that it is faster than switching identities.

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My outlook Express is corrupted. I am a computor dummy. Where can I find step by step instructions on how to switch to windows live mail. My computor is XP and about yrs old. My Mom is 97 years old and has a difficult time with the email program Windows Live Mail. I spent 3 weeks trying to get Thunderbird to work on my ISP, and finally gave up. It makes a huge difference who you have!

I have Comcast. Seemed like each new day was a different authentication problem. Thus it seems this is going to be a two stage process. Load Outlook a compatible copy on the old machine, let it create a. PST there. Take that. PST and drop it into the Windows 7 machine so that Outlook can do its import. I have just bought a brand new computter and only want outlook express dont mind down grading can it be done.

I dont want to use any other application. Hello, I used outlook express because it seemed to be the only, or at least most logical and versatile, program to use to access newsgroups. Will Windows Live Mail live up to my expectations? How can you open a new email in Windows Live Mail — maximized each and every time? Windows 7 — Windows Live Mail has replaced Outlook Express — sadly, whenever i open a brand new email — it does not open maximized — worse, it opens all over the place and is difficult to find, to see, and worse, needs to be moved over centered or maximized — each and every time.

But no luck. No money. And Thunderbird has its own problems for the visually impaired. Since we were forced to buy a new computer we were very disappointed to find we had lost Outlook Expres with windows 7. We heard we can get it back under a new name —Windows Live Mail. Is this true and if so how do we get it. As stated above, we too want nothing but our outlook back. We were so used to it and it was quite user friendly!! Thank you for any help you can give.

Microsoft should make it an option for those with serious reasons to be able to keep their accustomed system. It should never be forced on people to change,especially on those with illness or handicap!

Thank you, Carol Schuman. I loved having my email account from my isp set up in outlook express. Instead of installing windows live mail, I opted to install microsoft office , and am using the microsoft outlook that comes with it. So if you must have outlook, get your hands on a copy of microsoft office. I just bought a laptop that has Windows 7 and have a Palm Treo phone that uses a Windows system, however, I am unable to sync my phone to my laptop because my phone uses Outlook and my computer has the Windows Live.

Sprint is clueless on how to help me solve this issue and I have tried downloading my contact and calander to Windows live on my phone which still didnt work , but even then I still cant sync it to my computer because it reads and error message that Outlook has not yet been installed. Ive talked to multiple people at Sprint and have tried to read through forums.

Please HELP! I too miss my OE6 email with win 7. Firefox Thunderbird comes close but addresses will not auto fill. In order to auto insert an address one has to start a new To: line I found live mail far to busy too much junk. When I transferred everytning my address book did not transfer. How do I get my old Express address book to my new Windows 7 Outlook?

I had no idea that express was no longer provided. Hi, The beauty of Outlook Express was that I could use rules to set up private rooms subfiles in inbox where writers could privately critique works. Also I could easily transfer text from Word to and from Outlook Express into the body of the message. These functions were ideal for writers. Since I had my computer cleaned because of a virus infection, I have not been able to get back my old email address, which was ATT.

The problem is, an online email will not perform the rules for creating the folders I need. Is there an email address I can get that will enable me to perform that function? Thanks for any help you can give. Then simply run winmail. I do not understand this. I have just purchase lenovo laptop having windows7 version. Ealrier I am used to with window xp and outlook express. Now in windows7, how to work with outlook express? Is it inbuilt in windows7?

I am now using Windows 7; transferred my contact list just fine and am getting MOST of my e-mail from my three mail addresses. I have one customer who is using MSN mail and g mail.

I receive her g mail just fine. I think I read that i-phone gathers mail from Outlook Express. It is possible that I am not receiving other customers or friends e-mail as well.

Does Windows Mail Live have any issues with this kind of problem? She was not ever put in a blocked file I checked that first thing. I use Postbox Express 2 which I got as a free download, although I believe one has to purchase it now. It is brilliant. Norton keeps telling me Live mail usage of resources is too high???? Trend Micro suggested I update my windows so I clicked on the link it suggested and updated Windows from the Microsoft web page. I have all my business emails on outlook express and now I cannot find them at all because the update has made Outlook 7 the default version.

Sharon Whenever you run Outlook it makes itself the default email program. Would you like to make it your default mail client? If you check the box OE will become the default.

But any time you run Outlook it will automatically make itself the default mail client. As for the missing email, perhaps they were downloaded by Outlook and cleared from the server.

In that case they should still be in Outlook. I wish to keep Outlook Express on my main XP computer and would like to access it on laptop which is Windows 7, would I need to change my e mail addresses please? Ivy Smith, The issue is not with your email address, but with the program your computer uses to download the email and with the nature of downloading itself.

Downloading email takes it off the online server and saves it locally on your computer. It can then only be accessed on another computer or device with some fancy networking or syncing. AND that networking and syncing will not be possible because Windows 7 does not support Outlook Express anymore.

Your best solution is to contact your email provider and see if they have an online solution for you so you can access your email online. This article would have been much, much more valuable if it just compared… side by side…. Download all my mail from the mail server, onto my local drive? Outlook Express does not work on Windows Vista,Windows 7 or windows 8.

The reason is that is because it is bundled with IE6 which is not compatible with Windows Vista or Windows 7. I now have Windows Mail running on both my Windows 7 and Windows 8 laptops.

Andrea Borman. I hope I am not putting a whammy on my success by sharing this. I love Eudora and have been using it for over 14 years. Where is it????? Like Miss. I tried to copy Win-Mail to the program 86 file and the regular 64bit program file.

Neither one worked. So back to square one. I like Win-Vista best. It has only crashed a few times in the last five years. Copying program files from one computer to another rarely works. They normally need to be installed using the installation program. Can you copy a program file to another computer and run it? My question is this: will I lose my work folders stacked in OE in the process of doing so?

Some lost their contact list, horrors, but no mention of folders. What say you, oh wise ones?? Unfortunately, you will have to manually create those folders and move the emails to them. You can then set up your new email to use IMAP to access your emails. What is IMAP? And how can it help me manage my email? How do I move my emails from one provider to another? Outlook Express is not available for Windows 7. You can get Thunderbird or Windows Live mail , both of which are free.

I too bought a new computer , 8. I used to have Windows XP. I have Windows 7 SP1 now and there is constant receiving e-mails to the inbox from October I downloaded Incredimail, incredimail2 and incredimail2. What is going on? In either case you then installed a new email program from scratch, and it now sees and is downloading all the email from the server. I have a number of email addresses with different providers, for different purposes: gmail, hotmail, live.

Any ideas? If I send something from the internet to windows live it will open outlook rather than my windows live. Because of faithful windows XP being dissolved, I was forced to get into windows 7. Why do I no longer have any Email available to me??? Not the real Outlook Express. Well, I have been running the Outlook Express not real for a while just like I ran windows mail on 7 for years with no problem, any program may give problems, you never know.

There are some real qualified people that install or reinstall for you if you like. But they will run. I have doubts you are running Outlook Express as well. It sounds like another program completely that happens to have the same name, created by some third party. Perhaps you can share where you got it from? Or how it was installed?

That will tell us a lot. It may or may not be a good email program. It may or may not be a reasonable replacement for Outlook Express.

It may or may not come from someone we can trust. The original crashed on me for the last time, lost years of emails in DBX files and managed to recover only some. Recently got refurbished 4K monitor, it worked perfectly on that setup in Windows 10 many older programs still have DPI scaling issues.

I had Windows 7 and changed to Windows 10 when computer advised. I can no longer get my e-mail when I went to Windows I do not remember my password.

The solution is probably pretty simple. If you get your email through your internet provider a simple solution would be to contact their tech support.

They will be the ones who know how to get you going again. I used OE for years with not one single problem. Not one! I was never the victim of freezes or crashes or anything else. There is beauty and smooth sailing when things are kept simple. There is nothing wrong with simple! And it has nothing to do with being a Luddite. What MS fails to do is make something we can really count on and work with, with pleasure.

There needs to be a way to make what they started out with work well, and keep with it, without making drastic changes in interface and bloating it with features that people are unlikely to use. I tried those features, it just made for more work. They get overwhelmed, confused, stressed, enraged, which brings on a lot of other health and social effects now widely seen. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam.

All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication. I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. Search Ask Leo! Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! Pat Reply.

Does Thunderbird do newsgroups, the way OE does??? I dare say this will be a greater Reply. I is no fair that microsoet is taking them out in wwindows7 Reply. How is that an improvement? I feel like packing the whole lot up and dumping it at Harvey Norman, Be careful with the terminology: Outlook and Outlook Express are not the same thing. Outlook works just fine. Outlook Express is not available.

The licsense does not allow for installing on replacement or other machines. If you have Microsoft Office, you can still use Outlook for your e-mail in Windows 7. It may not be Outlook Express ,but it works much the same Reply. Hope this helps some of the users. Thank you, Ernie Reply.

Double check them. You can install Microsoft Office including Outlook on Windows 7, yes. Has nothing to do with recommending. Hi Everyone I use Mozilla Thunderbird always have its better than live mail. Thanks Reply. I am using Incredimail. Try it Reply. There are hundreds if not thousands by now. I use Thunderbird. Pete Reply. Elizabeth Thanks Elizabeth! Great Article! Accomplish more in less time New, expanded Home Page customization Break long-term goals into manageable daily tasks View e-mail, tasks, notes, and calendar windows all in a single view Customize your home page with the fonts and colors you like Monitor and manage up to four e-mail accounts Expand or collapse windows according to your needs Turn e-mails into tasks by dragging the e-mail to your Task List Includes new applications for BlackBerry Reply.

You cannot. PST files work only with Microsoft Outlook. I used Outlook and was disapointed to learn that it was no longer available. It is very very much like outlook express. Good Luck To be clear: Outlook is still available.

Outlook Express is no longer available. The two programs are not related to each other. Many computer pros such as myself intensely dislike Outlook Express and are happy to see it gone. I do wish that MS had fixed it rather than replaced it, but I can only assume that it was architected so poorly that a total replacement was the only viable cure for its many problems.

Leo — or anyone else. Does this sound right? And can I use it to get Outlook Express back? A program like Thunderbird, Outlook, and perhaps even Windows Live Mail again, a downloadable program that you run on your PC should be able to a filter email as you describe, and b work with almsot any email address you happen to have set up with yoru ISP or email provider.

But can I install Outlook Express in Windows 7? Please re-read the article, it answers this question. Unfortunately, today SP1 has ruined that option. Microsoft has spoilt our fun again. Please read the article you just commented on. It answers this question. Hi well i am using live mail in place of outlook BUT my Lenovo running Win7 is so slow when i sue live email anyone else had this?

Hi, Trend Micro suggested I update my windows so I clicked on the link it suggested and updated Windows from the Microsoft web page. In my program files I can still see a folder called Outlook express and it has icons in it.

How can I get my Outlook Express back so I can use it? Thanks Sharon Reply. Is it a lost Cause?? No, they are different, yet similar email programs. What I see people react to are not the featurelists that might show up in a side-by-side comparison but the nuances of how the user interface differs and individuals personal tastes and preferences. Thank you so Much Reply. If I send a file from windows file explorer it will open windows live. How can I get everything to go to windows live mail program.?

Metro Reply. How did you get it in the past? Although Windows 7 does have a Windows Mail program folder, but it is not active and does not work.

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Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Author Info Last Updated: August 6, On Windows 7, go to the Windows Mail programs folder. This can be found on programs on C drive. The Windows Mail program file in Windows 7 is locked by Windows.

Try to delete the program file and Windows won't let you do it. So in order to delete the Windows 7's Windows Mail program file, you have to either-download and install Take Ownership.

Which lets you take ownership of any file and then you can delete it. Or-You can download and install Unlocker, which unlocks and deletes any program file. Delete the Windows 7 Windows Mail program file.

You can do this using either Take Ownership or Unlocker. You now need to transfer both the Windows Mail and Windows Calendar program files from your Windows Vista computer onto your Windows 7 computer. To get both program files onto Windows 7,first copy both the Windows Mail and Windows Calendar program files into your My Documents folder.

And then right click with your mouse and select "send to zip folder. This enables you to transfer files from one computer to the other computer. OR upload both zip files to an online file sharing site like Mediafire. And then download both zip files onto your Windows 7 computer. OR transfer both files from your Windows Vista computer onto your Windows 7 computer using a thumb drive.

Save both files to Desktop or Downloads folder. On Windows 7 go to where you have save both zip files,either on Desktop or Downloads folder. To install Windows Mail-unzip and extract the files to programs on C drive. Go to programs and you should now see a file named Windows Mail.

Open the Windows Mail program file and you should see a file called Winmail. Send this to your desktop as a shortcut. Windows Mail is now installed. To install Windows Calendar unzip and extract the files to Programs on C drive and make a new folder.

Go to programs and you should see a file named New Folder. Now rename New Folder Windows Calendar. Now open the Windows Calendar folder and look for the file named Wincal.