Going back to Win XP?

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Walter Cohen

If I decide to go back to using XP Pro from Vista Home Pro will there be any
problems with Outlook Express? I know I had to convert my OE data/contacts
to work with Windows Mail and I'm just wondering what I'll need to do, if
anything, going back the other way.

Thanks for your help.

Walter
 
Walter Cohen said:
If I decide to go back to using XP Pro from Vista Home Pro will there be
any problems with Outlook Express? I know I had to convert my OE
data/contacts to work with Windows Mail and I'm just wondering what I'll
need to do, if anything, going back the other way.
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For the Contacts, first export them from Windows Contacts as a CSV file.
For the messages, save them and drag the EML files into OE.
 
Consider Windows Live Mail http://get.live.com. It's similar to Windows
Mail but not nearly as finished. It is to be hoped, that a new version or
at least a bug fix release will be out soon.

The problem with OE is that its folders are a proprietary compressed format
that can go bad from program crashes or just plain old bit rot.

Cheers,

Earle
 
Just be aware that (especially for laptops), if the machine was built
for Vista, often there are no XP drivers available.
 
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