I have 3 ea 1 TB hard drives in my computer. Really, nothing had to be changed or deleted or moved. If I change it in one OS it is also changed when I boot up in the other OS.Ģ different OS, but the nice thing is all the personal documents, files, emails are 'shared' between the two since they have common grounds between the two. īeauty of this is when I check my email for any account, it pulls up the dbx files and folders from the one in that separte drive and no matter whether I am in Windows 8.1 or XP (as I am in now) no email is having to be lost or doubled up. I did have to install programs that allowed me to access those folder and files from within Windows 8.1 though, like Adobe Photoshop and of course the Outlook Express. Now I can read / write any info into the documents and folders I had before and never had to move anything in the process.

My Documents also don't reside on the normal C: drive but a whole physical different hard drive in my desktop and when I had 8.1 PRO installed all I had to do was create shortcuts to Adobe, Word, Excel, My Picture, etc etc in the appropriate places and presto. Now, when I installed Windows 8.1 Pro on my computer I did it in a clean partition and created a dual boot scenario. In XP when I 'switched' accounts it would bring up the account that I had created and moved in it's entirety. The reason I use this program and not something else is because I dual boot I have long ago moved all the email accounts to another drive and folder, their OWN folder Outlook Express Databases, and then in that folder created sub folders for each of the email accounts. It also worked very well on my HP laptop that has Windows 8.1 HOME on it and then I upgraded it recently to Windows 10 HOME and still works just as good. I use it on my desktop at home that dual boots XP as well as Windows 8.1 Pro. Go to and look at the newer Outlook Express download.

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