Possible To Save Multiple Webmail Messages At A Time To H.D?

Hi

I'm preparing to close a Hotmail account.
I use several other webmail accounts, the hotmail account often goes unused and it's time to retire it.

I would like to save all of the messages & contacts to my hard drive as text/Word documents, and can do so, but only one at a time [which would be an excruciating endeavor. ]

The programs & methods I've looked into that come up in related web searches all seem to be one-by-one methods.

I do not use Outlook Express and am not familiar with it how it works (or how any standalone email clients work, for that matter) although apparently it seems as though I could set it up, export the Hotmail data and then save those exports from OE to my pc.
While I'm not ruling this method out, I consider this process to be inconvenient, and would prefer to bypass the use of an email client.

So, in that context, are there any alternative/faster methods to saving all of my Hotmail data to disk?

TIA for any feedback.