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Exporting Outlook Express in a desktop into Windows Live Mail in a laptop?

My wife desperately needed a new computer to replace her 6 year-old desktop so, of course, I bought myself a new laptop and I'm giving her my old one. But try as I might, I cannot convince her to stop using Outlook Express. Of course, the laptop, which is running Win 7, does not even have Outlook Express so I at least convinced her that Windows Live Mail was the next best thing. Now, I need to figure out how to take the OE data in the desktop and bring it to Windows Live Mail in the laptop so she has her contacts, old emails, etc. Help. I'm in way over my head here.

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RobynsWorld

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This might help www.pcdon.com­/080113OutlookExpress­-WindowsLiveMail...

I know with full Outlook everything is stored in the .PST file. You might also be able to export the contacts and calendar by syncing with something like Hotmail and then importing into Windows Live Mail
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  1. Log in to the email account. Windows Live Mail should automatically download the old emails.
  2. If it does not, you must export the contacts to a "*.csv" file and import it to the laptop.
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