Express Assist

Express Assist is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you create backups of Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail Desktop data.

The utility employs a wizard-like approach for helping you carry out the backup process. This mode comes in handy especially for less experienced users, as they are offered step-by-step guidance throughout the configuration process.

You are the given the freedom to choose between two main tasks, namely make a backup file or archive copy of your critical data, or restore/view data from a previous backup.

The application allows you to pick the email clients and browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome) that you want to save. You may include Windows contacts, files, My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, and My Desktop data in the backup, as well as add user-defined folders.

The utility automatically scans the aforementioned locations and displays a list with files for each category. You may manually select the items that you want to include/exclude in/from the backup.

What’ more, you can choose the saving directory, password-protect the backup in order to prevent other users from gaining access to your sensitive data, as well as apply the 256-bit AES encryption algorithm.

Express Assist comes with support for some extra set of utilities that allow you to set a backup reminder and delete prior backups and logs if they exceed a custom number of copies.

The build-in scheduler gives you the possibility to create a new task by providing details about its name and performing an automatic action at the end of the backup (e.g. end the program, shut down the computer, log off the current user). Plus, you can run a scheduled task on specific days of the week, custom date, and time.

Express Assist allows you to automatically show backup logs, save a copy of the backup log with the backup file, compress data and choose the preferred compression level (low, medium or high), and skip several files from the compression process based on file extension filters (e.g. GIF, PNG, ZIP, TIFF).

What’s more, you can set a default backup folder, create a single backup file or split the backup into multiple items with each one not exceeding a maximum size, verify all files, include date and time in filenames, and automatically close Firefox to do a backup.

Express Assist provides a user-friendly environment and smart suite of features for helping you back up and restore data, and is suitable for all types of users, regardless of their experience level.