You cannot "restore" old DBX newsgroup files and expect them to be
recognized by Outlook Express. Newsgroup subscriptions and the associated
DBX files for them are keyed to specific identities and those that are
readable in one identity are not readable in another identity unless you
have "cloned" your system as outlined at this website:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/bu_full.htm

Copy/paste of old DBX files from one system to another will not work for
newsgroups. Sorry, but you wasted your time doing so.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"JasonA" wrote in message
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I'm not sure what you are meaning here - I already have downloaded the
headers at least (that's what's already in the dbx file). I need to
prevent
then downloading a second time.