How to back up Outlook Express Data

Unlike online mail services such as Google and Yahoo which you can access from any internet connected PC, Outlook Express mail sits in the hard drive of your PC. While this is convenient most of the time, sometines, when you are using another PC, there's no way to access you existing Outlook Express mail. You can make a backup of your Outlook Express mail into a USB drive and use it on any PC.

Follow these steps to make a backup onto a USB drive :

Make sure the USB drive has been plugged in into your PC
Create a new folder in teh USB drive called Mail backup
Open Outlook Express and click on Tools - Options - Maintenance
Click on Store Folder box
From the Window that opens, highlight the folder location, right click and select
Copy
All the Outlook Express folders are now in the clipboard
Now select and open the USB drive and click on the new Mail backup folder you had created
Right click in this folder and select Paste
All the folders from your Outlook Express will now be saved here in a dbx format.