Outlook Express is known for its easy accessibility, security and non complicated structure. In this email application, for data storage separate DBX files are created for each mailbox folder. However, despite having so many features one may face some hindrance while working. As a result your Outlook Express starts working slow or may stop responding. This may be because of virus infection, improper shutdown of the system or oversize of the .dbx file. To avoid any type of data loss it is necessary to follow adequate steps to recover Outlook Express data files.
As we know “prevention is better than cure”, so you may use some steps to keep your .dbx file corruption free. The steps are as following:
1.Avoid your .dbx file to get over sized. Keep on checking the size of the files of Outlook Express and always remove the unwanted mails from the Inbox and Sent Item folder.
2.Anti-virus should be updated time to time so that DBX file do not gets corrupted due to virus infection.
3.Compact Outlook Express mailbox folder regularly.
4.Do not perform any other task while the compaction of your files is going on.
5.Backup of all you important Outlook Express files should be kept on regular basis. So that in case your Outlook Express files gets corrupted, you are at least able to get your important files for the time being.