And if you have Windows 8.1 ISO file, browse to the file location, right-click on it, and then click Mount option to mount the ISO file. Step 3: Open up the Windows 8.1 install DVD, USB, or mounted ISO in This PC (My Computer), and then double-click Setup.exe file to run the installer. Outlook Express does not exist in Windows 8. It has been abandoned since Windows Vista. On Windows Vista it has been replaced by built-in Windows Mail which has been removed on Windows 7. For Windows 7, Microsoft offered Windows Live Mail as an download option, part of the Windows Live Essentials package. On Windows 8 a Mail App for Windows has been offered. Download express vpn for windows 8 best vpn for chrome, download express vpn for windows 8 Get the deal (YogaVPN)how to download express vpn for windows 8 for In the 1 last update 2019/09/22 news business, it 1 last update 2019/09/22 is considered irresponsible to spread baseless, potentially damaging rumors about public figures.
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I would like to see Outlook Express installed with Windows 8, or at least be able to download it and install it. I need it in the 64 bit version.
Jun 05, 2017 All replies. Note that enabling Express Installation files on your WSUS, will increase (maybe three times) the data you download from MSFT and store on your WSUS servers, but it decreases the data you push around inside your network to clients, but, patching takes longer because there is more calculation (of the delta) needed.
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There's no Outlook Express for Windows 8.
In fact, Outlook Express has been long superseded by Windows Mail in Vista, which in turn was superseded by Windows Live Mail. The latest version of Outlook Express was included in the 2008 Windows XP SP3.
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Outlook Express does not exist in Windows 8. It has been abandoned since Windows Vista. On Windows Vista it has been replaced by built-in Windows Mail which has been removed on Windows 7. For Windows 7, Microsoft offered Windows Live Mail as an download option, part of the Windows Live Essentials package. On Windows 8 a Mail App for Windows has been offered.
If you look outside of Microsoft offering you can find quite a lot of different or replacement programs (some also resemble the user-interface of the Outlook Express).
Microsoft options:
- Windows Live Mail (no longer available)
- Outlook (part of the Microsoft Office package)
- Mail App (Built in Windows 8 and Windows 10)
- Outlook.com (Web mail, former Live / MSN / Hotmail)
Non-Microsoft options:
- OE Classic (Replacement for Outlook Express - your best option)
Many, many more are compared on Wikipedia Comparison page.
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//Leo, I’m finding myself confronted with an unexpected problem. We bought an HP Pavilion desktop PC for my wife, which runs Windows 8.1. However, the entire correspondence with HP regarding the details of the transaction was done by email on my computer running Windows XP, SP3 and Outlook Express.
Now, I printed all of it out, of course but to be on the safe side, I also saved the entire correspondence to CD. Our usual total email traffic is done on my computer in order to avoid any mix-ups. Now, when my computer bites the dust, our entire collection of email and also other correspondence written on that Windows XP PC will be useless and lost since it cannot be read on the new PC running Windows 8.1. Would you have any idea how to get around this problem? Perhaps installing Outlook Express the new PC, but I suspect that Windows 8.1 will not take this.
In my opinion, there’s just no debate. The age of Outlook Express is over. It’s time to move on to something that’s less buggy and actually supported.
But that does leave many existing Outlook Express users with a big problem: what do you do with all the email that you have stored in your existing Outlook Express installation?
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Switch then move…
One of Outlook Express’s many problems is that it makes moving the Outlook data store very difficult. It’s a proprietary format and it’s very, very fragile. It’s easy to have it not work at all, to lose mail, or experience all sorts of other associated issues that make it kind of a mess, to put it politely. It’s very difficult to complete a data transfer successfully.
My preferred approach doesn’t work for everyone, but I think it will work for you since you have your existing Windows XP machine. It’s absolutely the easiest solution that I know of.
And that’s this: on the XP machine that’s running Outlook Express, install another email program. I recommend something like Thunderbird, but I believe Microsoft Office’s Outlook will do, and Windows Live Mail might do as well. Chose an email program that will allow you to import all of your Outlook Express email.
Once you’ve done that, you’ll have something that’s very easy to move to another machine and even to another operating system. With Thunderbird, for example, you can then move that data to Windows Vista, 7 or 8; even to a Mac or Linux
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Move then switch…
The second approach is if it’s already too late… in other words, if you no longer have Windows XP, but you do have a copy of the original mail store.
On a machine that cannot run Outlook Express, like your Windows 8.1 machine, you have to make sure that the entire original Outlook Express data store is available. In other words, you’ve recovered it from a backup
A backup is nothing more than an additional copy of data, ideally kept in a different location than the original. If there’s only one copy of something – say a photograph on a mobile phone – then it’s not backed up.
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'>backup or you’ve copied it to your new machine before you decommissioned the Windows XP machine. Either way, the data store that Outlook Express uses has been copied or saved somehow, and is now accessible on your new machine.(Click on the term for full definition.)
You’ll find it on the old XP machine backup or hard drive, typically buried under a folder in your user account. But one relatively quick way to find it is to simply search the Hard Disk Drive [HDD]
An HDD, or Hard Disk Drive, is data storage made up of magnetic spinning disks.
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Root actually has several different meanings in technology.
When applied to hard disks or other file storage media, the root refers to the topmost folder in which files are placed.
File systems allow you to organize files into folders, and of course folders can contain other folders. This is typically thought of as a tree structure (often, though not always, conceptually drawn and thought of as an upside down tree). For example:
In this image, “C:” represents the “root” of the C: drive; the topmost folder into which files and folders can be placed. It is unique in that it is, itself, not contained within another folder.
When applied to operating systems, root is the name of the administrator or super-user account in Linux and Unix systems. It is conceptually equivalent to the Windows “Administrator” account.
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File systems allow you to organize files into folders, and of course folders can contain other folders. This is typically thought of as a tree structure (often, though not always, conceptually drawn and thought of as an upside down tree). For example:
In this image, “C:” represents the “root” of the C: drive; the topmost folder into which files and folders can be placed. It is unique in that it is, itself, not contained within another folder.
When applied to operating systems, root is the name of the administrator or super-user account in Linux and Unix systems. It is conceptually equivalent to the Windows “Administrator” account.
To root a device is to gain access to the root account, or its equivalent, so as to be able to perform actions such as installing or uninstalling software that would otherwise be prevented by the system’s default configuration.
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Now, like in the first approach, install another email program: Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, Outlook from Microsoft Office, or something similar. Configure that email and that program, as appropriate, to access your current email.
Now use that program’s import feature to import your Outlook Express mail.
This doesn’t work with all mail programs, but it does work with several. It’s essentially the same thing we did by installing an email program on your Windows XP machine. The issue is that once the data store has been moved to a machine that does not actually run Outlook Express, a little bit of information about where the data store is located or how it’s formatted is lost. Some of the import utilities actually rely on that, and thus they won’t work in this moved situation – where you’re actually trying to do the import on something other than Windows XP. But it can work, and in many cases it does.
And then once you’ve done that, you’ve got your email in this other email program.
The key to both of these scenarios is to get your email out of Outlook Express’s proprietary, and unfortunately fairly fragile database format. Typically, all that really means is importing into some other email program.
The good news is that most of the other email programs we’re talking about actually make it relatively easy to then move the email from one machine to another.
Move XP itself
There is a third solution. It’s more complex, and I mention it only as a last resort.
In Windows 7 Pro, and better, you can install what’s called XP mode. XP mode is ultimately Windows XP running in a virtual machine
A virtual machine is a simulation of a complete PC running as an application on another. It can be thought of as an entire “PC in a window”.
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You would then need to transfer the data store from wherever it is to the virtual machine that you’ve just created. Once you’ve done so, you can presumably fire up Outlook Express and access that mail.
Once again, I strongly recommend that the first thing you do is move away from Outlook Express. In that virtual machine, install one of the other email programs we’ve been talking about and use that other program to import the email store, converting to the new program’s format. Then move the mail to it’s final destination on your new or upgraded machine.
All of these approaches have downsides. The ability to use multiple identities is usually the big one. Outlook Express supports it, but not all of the alternatives do. It’s something that, to be honest, is often lost. But as much as we might love Outlook Express, the fact is it hasn’t been supported in close to a decade. It has problems; it’s known to lose email, especially as you accumulate more and more.
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The bottom line is that it’s time to move on.