How to Recover Deleted Emails in Outlook Express

Outlook Express is the free email client by Microsoft that comes with various versions of Internet Explorer and Windows. Outlook Express is very popular among the users because of being free and easy to use. Like any other application Outlook Express also has some issues that may halt your work.

Let's consider a practical scenario where in you start the Outlook Express and found that the Inbox folder is empty or all its content is being replaced by the “Welcome to Microsoft Outlook Express” message. It seems that all your Inbox items have been deleted and when you check those items in Deleted Items folder, you will find that it is also empty.

Reason: This error may occur when you use e-mail scanning function in some anti-virus program. If you have enabled this function of the anti-virus program, it may result in Outlook Express Database corruption.

Resolution: To resolve this issue you need to upgrade the anti-virus application with a version that is compatible with Outlook Express.

Recovery of lost emails: By upgrading the anti-virus program, you ensure that this issue will not halt your work in future.

But how to recover the data that you already lost?

Case 1: Regular back-up is always recommended to prevent any data lose in such situations. If you have the back-up of the Outlook Express files then you can restore the Inbox data from the back-up.

Case 2: In case you do not have the back-up you need to go for third party outlook express recovery tools. These tools are especially fabricated to scan and recover the deleted components of DBX files. These tools are although paid; but demo versions of some tool are available for free. By running the software, you can preview the recoverable components of DBX file. One such highly efficient tool for recovery is here: DBX repair tool

How to Recover Deleted Emails in Outlook or Outlook Express ?

MS Outlook is one of the world's most widely used email client for communication. Computer users use this powerful utility for both their business and personal interaction needs. Outlook works also as a personal information manager for the users where they store general as well as important business information in their folders.

Sometimes users shift+deleted or hard deleted emails from Outlook folders and they think that they have lost it permanently from their 'Sent items' folders.

But in really when someone delete any email message using the Shift + Delete or hard deleted option, it is not deleted permanently by Outlook. Only the listing of the particular e-mail is removed from the index. The deleted emails are still there in the PST (personal storage) file. However, it can not be accessed because MS Outlook is not able to find the index entries of particular items.

How to recover deleted emails?

There are the following option to recover deleted items from outlook:

1. Go to 'Deleted Items' folder and restore your deleted emails & other items.
2. Restore outlook PST file backup.
3. Use some third-party deleted email recovery tool like Delete Email Recovery software to scan the outlook and extract lost items from it.


Deleted Email Recovery tool does much more than expectation of the users. This software uses most advanced scanning algorithms ever designed to recover & restore lost emails, attachments, images, address, contacts, creation date & time, tasks, journals, calendar entries and other outlook items from MS Outlook. It is able to recover deleted emails from MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. In addition, this tool supports Outlook Express 5.x and 6.0.