Open windows explorer, click folder options, put the dot in "show hidden
files" then remove the check mark in "Hide protected etc files" Then go to
documents and settings click on the administrator name, drill down to
identities, further down to a long apphanumeric numter, look below it for
Outlook Express, click that you will see a list of the dbx files in the right
pane. The wont be there till you change the views. Be sure to put the views
back when finished.

"John Brown" wrote:

Any thoughts on this...was at a mate's XP pc yesterday..we looked for dbx
files on his hard drive via Start/Search/All files and folders.../*.dbx.
....whilst this found some old dbx files...the current ones it didn't reveal.
He only has one hard drive - drive C so first looked there then looked in My
Computer to be sure, and have Show hidden files and folders tricked in
Folder Options.
Did eventually find them via Maintenance/Store folder...but intrigued as to
why they didn't show in Search?
Thanks.