New computer question

[William J. Lunsford]

A friend is buying a new computer because the power supply on her old
machine died and she is ready for a new computer anyway. She plans to get a
Vista machine with a Windows 7 upgrade coupon.
If I move the hard drive from her old XP machine and install it as a
secondary drive on the new one, how do I import her emails and address book
from Outlook Express on the old hard drive into Windows Mail on the new
Vista machine?
Bill

 

[Alias]

A friend is buying a new computer because the power supply on her old
machine died and she is ready for a new computer anyway. She plans to
get a Vista machine with a Windows 7 upgrade coupon.
If I move the hard drive from her old XP machine and install it as a
secondary drive on the new one, how do I import her emails and address
book from Outlook Express on the old hard drive into Windows Mail on the
new Vista machine?
Bill

A power supply is less than 30 dollars and involves a total of four
screws and attaching a few ribbon cables that you already have.

As far as Outhouse Distress is concerned, you'd be better off copying
the message store onto a pen drive and then copy it to the new machine
to import to Windows Fail. Of course, this would be after you've
replaced the power supply. You could also do what you suggest.

Alias

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

From Windows Mail, file/import/messages/OE6 store and browse to the .dbx
files on the XP machine (normally under the user profile, so you may have to
'take ownership' of them first). Note that Win7 does not include
WindowsMail, so once she upgrades she will need to find a new email client.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Waz Medano]

A power supply is less than 30 dollars

Correction, a crap PSU is less than 30 dollars.

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[Alias]

Correction, a crap PSU is less than 30 dollars.

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"A good neighbor is one who stays on their side of the ****ING fence."
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No, it depends on your needs. If you have a high end GPU, yes, you need
a more expensive one.

You saying that something is crap that I didn't even mention is
interesting. Have you alway had these leap of logic problems? Also,
"crap" is an opinion, not a fact, Jack.

Alias

 

[William J. Lunsford]

Thanks for the information! There is no email client in Win 7? Why?
Bill

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Microsoft dropped the email client in favor of Windows Live Mail, available
for download to those who want it.

http://download.live.com/wlmail

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[William J. Lunsford]

Thanks again! You have been very helpful.
Bill

Hi,

Microsoft dropped the email client in favor of Windows Live Mail,
available for download to those who want it.

http://download.live.com/wlmail

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Andy Huang]

My advise is to WAIT until October22 and get Windows7 machine, instead lf
upgrading Vista to Win7.
Upgrading by definition creates issues, it 'dirties" your harddisk.
Why can't you wait 5 weeks & probably get a better machine?

As an engineer, I consider getting a Vista machine now and spend several
days on moving onto Windows7 an utter waste of time.
For 5 weeks she can survive on someone else machine or borrow power supply,
a power supply if thqat kind is mere $30-50 anyway.

 

[Andy Huang]

It was unbundled due to Antitrust lawsuits, thanks to European Union
zealots.
You CAN get Win7 Livemail as a download now, only. SO it gives you a choice
which is what Lawyers demanded.
BUT you don't have to.

I personally can't stand any WinLive applications, most of us were happy
with Outlook, OutlookExpress and then WindowsMaIL in Vista.
To get something like that, many people choose this:

THUNDERBIRD by Mozilla (?), I love Microsoft, just having Mozilla's email
client doesn't mean I betray MS - it's MS's decision to make WinLive mail
look like a flashy children's crap that made many people now use Thunderbird
for business, or in my case - Outlook from MS Office.
Thunderbird is free

There're many other clients now - that was the purpose of Antitrust
regulators, to force MS to unbundle some products.
MS is still able to withstand a tidal wave of those who demand even Internet
Explorer to be unbundled because IE is inseparable from OS kernel anymore.,
what they try is now to offer you option to choose Mozilla Firefox or
whatever....

 

[William J. Lunsford]

Thanks for the information! I think she will want whatever is most like the
Outlook Express she knows how to use.
Bill

 

[William J. Lunsford]

That decision is not up to me. I am just a helpful neighbor.
Bill

 

[+Bob+]

Thanks again! You have been very helpful.
Bill

Windows Mail (native to Vista) is very close to Outlook Express.

Windows Live Mail may not be an improvement. Before you make that
jump, consider moving to Tbird.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Windows Mail (native to Vista) is very close to Outlook Express.

Yes. In my view it is essentially nothing but the latest version of
Outlook Express. Microsoft wisely changed its name from Outlook
Express so people would no longer mix it up with the very different
Microsoft program Outlook. But then they added the new program
"Windows Live Mail" so people could mix it up with that instead.