How can revert back Windows Live Mail ext .eml to Outlook Exp .dbx

After updating my PC Microsoft Security Bulletin Major Revisions Issued:
November 24, 2009 all my saved Outlook Express documents with extension
..dbx were changed to Windows Live Mail extension .eml.

How can i revert it back to Outlook Express extension .dbx?
I don't like to use Windows Live Mail !
Rodriguez Peña

"N. Miller" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:03:01 -0800, Rodriguez Peña wrote:
>
>> After updating my PC Microsoft Security Bulletin Major Revisions Issued:
>> November 24, 2009 all my saved Outlook Express documents with extension
>> .dbx were changed to Windows Live Mail extension .eml.
>>
>> How can i revert it back to Outlook Express extension .dbx?
>> I don't like to use Windows Live Mail !
>
> I don't understand what you are seeing. MS Outlook Express stores all of
> its
> email in .dbx folders. The .eml extension refers to a text file containing
> a
> single email message, and there is no conversion done. You may save a
> given
> email from MSOE to an .eml file, but that does not alter the .dbx file in
> any way.
>
> Windows Live Mail stores email messages as .eml files; one per email
> message. If you ever installed Windows Live Mail, it likely imported your
> MSOE messages. But all your MSOE .dbx files should still be intact.

Yes, at the time of import, but undoubtedly Mr Peña wants to dump Windows
Live Mail and go back to Outlook Express, and after using WLM he's probably
accumulated more messages, which from what he is saying, need to also be
placed in a format Outlook Express can import. Are messages then trapped in
WLM once one has used it for a while? It appears that, from the Export
dialog off the File menu, that the ONLY paths for Export are for Microsoft
Exchange or (for some really bizarre reason), Windows Live Mail.

Shame Outlook Express couldn't have just been ported to Windows 7. WLM
appears for all intents and purposes to have been rushed out in order to be
ready for Windows 7.

Work and development on OE ended over 3yrs ago.

WLM was released in Nov 2007. Upgraded in Dec 2008. Current version released in Feb 2009 and included some minor patches and a QFE.

WLM can not export to OE or OE can not import from WLM.

Drag and drop eml files from WLM to a Windows Explorer folder then to OE.
or
Export to Outlook, import from Outlook in OE(Outlook needs to be on the OE machine)

...winston
msft mvp mail

"Stephen Goodman" <> wrote in message news:...
> Shame Outlook Express couldn't have just been ported to Windows 7. WLM appears for all intents and purposes to have been rushed
> out in order to be ready for Windows 7.