How to Back Up Outlook Express

Go to your Outlook folder in Explorer.

• Highlight all files ending in ".pst".
  • Make sure in particular your selection includes "outlook.pst" and "archive.pst".
• Select Edit | Copy from the menu to copy them.
• Open the folder where you want to put your backup copies in Windows Explorer.
  • Ideally, this will be on another computer, on a removable disk stored far away from your home, somewhere on the Internet, or at least on a different hard disk.
• Select Edit | Paste from the menu to paste your .pst files to the backup location