The Lycos.co.uk email service will terminate on 15th February 2009. Their newsletter states that all email, settings and files will be deleted after that date and advises users to find a new email provider.
It’s not clear if Lycos.com will be doing the same.
If this effects you, and you change your email address, register on the ContactClean Lycos quick registration and email search page to help keep all your friends and contacts up to date.
June 1st, 2009 at 3:20 am
I need recover my directions book at least, plese
July 31st, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I need to recover my data back from lycos e-mail, how can I get it back?
November 1st, 2009 at 4:40 pm
It is a common problem to lose email, password, etc.
1. Some of your login/email information is available in temporary internet files. So, you need to find out where your temporary internet files are. Typically this is available in the tools menu of your web browser. On my Internet Explorer, I can find it from Tools->Internet Options->Browsing History->Settings->Current Location. On my computer, my temporary internet files are in “C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\”. Write this exact location/path down – no misspellings. If there is a forward or backward slash at the end of this location, write it down WITHOUT the ending forward or backward slash. On my computer, I wrote down “C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files” . Notice that I wrote down this location without the ending backward slash. (This part is important.)
2. Start biterscripting . (If you don’t have it already, download it free from http://www.biterscripting.com .)
3. Copy and paste the following command on biterscripting command line – all on one line – exactly as shown – no misspellings.
scr SS_FindStr.txt dir(”C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files”) files(”*”) str(”@gmx.com”) > “C:/x.txt” ; system start “C:/x.txt”
Note that although I am using “C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files”, you should be using whatever you wrote down in step 1. Also, although I am using “@gmx.com” as the search string, you should use an appropriate search term for your search – such as @yahoo.com, @gmail.com, @hotmail.com, etc.
It will take some time for the above commmand to complete and come back (about 1 hour for me), but once done, it will open a text file for you. It will list various files and search strings it found in temporary internet files. You will find all kinds of interesting information in there. Using Edit->Find or CTRL-F, try to locate your search string ( @gmx.com in my example ).
Your ability to find things this way is limited only by two factors.
1. How much information is on your computer.
2. How well you follow these instructions.
Good luck.
Sen