good afternoon. I'm looking for idiot-proof step by step instructions to get my old outlook express emails from the old xp computer over to windows mail, or gmail for that matter, and then be able to read them in the same format (email address, date, subject). I've looked at some of the earlier threads, but the responses are either over my head, partial, or not applicable. does anyone have detailed step by step instructions for the whole process. i've seen drag and drop (which i'm obviously not doing correctly). i have an old backup version (thru jan 2009) on cd, but can't get windows mail to read them from there. I also have an external hitachi lifestudio harddrive.