Don't export the mail. Windows Mail saves email messages as discrete .EMF
files; copy these files from Windows Mail's storage folders onto a portable
device or CD, take that to the XP machine, start XP and open Outlook
Express, browse to your portable device or CD with Windows Explorer, then
drag and drop these .EMF files into open Outlook Express folders - .EMF is
the native file format for OE, so they drop right in. As Robert points out,
the error you're getting is from trying to export to Office Outlook, which
uses a totally different methodology for storing email. Exporting to Office
Outlook requires that it be installed to handle this special format; with
Outlook Express, the format is the same for individual messages, so you just
drag and drop.

Hal
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"diablo333911" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> I recently got Windows XP, because I remember it being alot better than
> Vista. I have one problem, I can't seem to export my Windows Mail
> messages to Outlook Express Format. I get the error "An error occured
> while initializing MAPI". Now, I have heard that I accually need Outlook
> Express to fix this error. If anyone can confirm that, and show me where
> to download Outlook Express, that would be awesome. Thanks
>
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