How to transfer all emails and contacts from Outlook Express to Outlook 2010
I have just done this and believe me it was a bit of a marathon! Microsoft tell you that you need to have both Outlook Express and Outlook 2010 running on the same machine. If, like me, your Outlook 2010 in running on a Windows 7 platform there is a problem. Until now I have been using Outlook Express on a Desktop running XP Pro. It has Outlook 2007 but it wont run owing to a corrupted file. I set up my email account on an old XP laptop which has Outlook 2007. This is how I transferred emails between 2 machines running Outlook Express:
After setting up the account (on the old laptop) I created sub-folders exactly the same as my existing account. Having got some emails in the inbox I made sure that each new sub-folder contained at least one random email simply by drag and drop. It seems to validate the folders. I then copied the folders from the maintenance directory on the desktop (you find this under Tools Options Maintenance) and pasted them into the equivalent folder on the this old laptop so they overwrote those present. I transferred the contacts simply using Export Address Book using a csv file. I then set up the email account in Outlook 2007 on the old laptop and ran an import from Outlook Express which was fine as per Microsofts instructions. On that machine I then exported to a backup pst file which I transferred to my new Windows 7 machine and imported successfully into Outlook 2010. Perhaps there are easier ways but at least it worked!
March 19th, 2015 5:21pm

You can directly do the same, visit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/196215 to know the steps.
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March 20th, 2015 6:29am

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