I use Outlook Express on my Windows XP and like it. How can I use it on my new laptop with Windows 7? I am also trying to uninstall MS Windows Live Essentials on my new computer, using the Revo Uninstaller, without much success. It has been running over an hour now.

Before that, I tried downloading OE6 and it would not install to the new computer. Is there any simple way I can use my Outlook Express and the email contacts I had established through that program, or is there another email client that I could use on my new computer to import that information, using my OE email address? Any advice would be appreciated.

ricochet

OE was discontinued after XP. It is not available for Vista or 7. It was replaced by windows live mail. Is that what you are trying to install? Sadly, you didn't tell us what happened when you tried to install WLE. If you did perhaps we could help you further however putting OE on 7 is out of the question. As a suggestion perhaps is if you try to install only windows live mail it will install.

Thanks. I found that out quickly. I could neither install OE nor uninstall MLE. I ended up installing Mozilla Thunderbird as a replacement for OE, as well as the free PrivateFirewall 7.0, which works well with Windows 7.

ricochet

To access your old OE data, you could run MS XP Mode then load saved OE data there then export it in a format ThuderBird supports and import into TB.

Please note that XP Mode is only available for 7 pro, ultimate, or enterprise but not for home, as said in the article. Also I never could get it to work because windows set the files as read only and I could never find a work-around, not that I needed it in the first place.