If you are looking for a program to recover lost Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express emails you’ll need to define that search by locating a program that specifically scans for and reconstructs each of these email clients’ file types. Microsoft Outlook the larger of the two applications stores emails and calendar functions along with customizations and settings in a large database known as a PST file. Microsoft Outlook Express stores each of these things individually in a series of DBX files. Hence you must recover Outlook PST file information in order to rescue lost Outlook emails and repair a corrupt Microsoft Outlook inbox.

To recover Outlook DBX file information you must find a program that can quickly scan your computer’s hard drive and locate all of its existing and recently deleted DBX files. An interesting note is that as with any proprietary Microsoft applications such as word documents or XL documents the ability to open and read DBX files is not an inherent PC function. The program you choose for Microsoft Outlook Express recovery should also be able to open a damaged DBX file and at minimum give you access to the core content.