None of this has anything to do with Outlook. It has to do solely with
Windows Mail and Outlook Express. This newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97, 98, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 from the Office family for Intel PCs. For
Outlook Express (OE) support try posting in this newsgroup:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpresss

For Windows Mail:
microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/

Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Julie4js" <Julie4js@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6E71B88F-E82C-4292-8475-1C2B0FF9C536@microsoft.com...
> All of this information was helpful to me too, except that when I try to
> import the .dbx files into Windows Mail, I receive a message that "no
> items
> match your search". When I look at the folder in Explorer, it contains a
> number of .dbx files. However, when when I open the folder to do the
> import,
> none of those files is showning. The folder is on a backup drive.
> Thank you for any help you cna provide me!
>
> "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> "Rick" <Rick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:456DC580-DB8F-47C4-BD8B-BE53C7865A66@microsoft.com...
>>
>> >I must be missing something here. I am trying to move messages from an
>> >old
>> > computer with outlook express and windows xp, to a new machine with
>> > office
>> > outlook 2007 and windows vista. I have been able to migrate the
>> > address
>> > book, but am not able to move the messages. I can get them from the
>> > old
>> > computer with OE, but not into the new computer with outlook 2007.
>> >
>> > One of the suggestions is to open them to OE in the new computer then
>> > move
>> > them, but I do not have OE on the new computer...and if I did I
>> > wouldn't
>> > have
>> > paid the money to buy the outlook 2007 program.
>> >
>> > I have copied the dbx files into the new computer where I can access
>> > them...now how do I get them to Office Outlook 2007 so I can read them?
>>
>> You import them to Windows Mail and then from there export the messages
>> to
>> Outlook. For your address book, again, load it into Windows Mail, then
>> use
>> Outlook to import the addresses from Windows Mail.
>> --
>> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>>
>>
18 Nov 2008import files from Outlook Express to Office Outlook 2007.Rick
18 Nov 2008\ RE: import files from Outlook Express to Office Outlook 2007.Chad J.
18 Nov 2008   \ RE: import files from Outlook Express to Office Outlook 2007.Rick
18 Nov 2008      \ Re: import files from Outlook Express to Office Outlook 2007.Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]
18 Nov 2008         \ Re: import files from Outlook Express to Office Outlook 2007.Rick
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