Outlook

[Guest]

AI have just bought a new laptop due to the fact that my old one is so
corrupt that I can't access the internet anymore and have tried 1 million &
one fixes. I would like to transfer my email messages, contacts, etc. to my
new computer but don't want to use the file transfer wizard so as to not
corrupt the new one. Any ideas how to accomplish this task? I have a junk PC
that I plan to use to scan these items with Antivirus and Spyware programs
(purchased to load on the new one) before copying them to the new computer.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[peter]

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peter

 

[Gordon]

AI have just bought a new laptop due to the fact that my old one is so
corrupt that I can't access the internet anymore and have tried 1 million
&
one fixes. I would like to transfer my email messages, contacts, etc. to
my
new computer but don't want to use the file transfer wizard so as to not
corrupt the new one. Any ideas how to accomplish this task? I have a junk
PC
that I plan to use to scan these items with Antivirus and Spyware programs
(purchased to load on the new one) before copying them to the new
computer.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Are you using Outlook (part of MS Office) or Outlook EXPRESS?

 

[Gordon]

I'm using Microsoft Outlook 2002 that was bundled with Office 2002...

then to transfer all your emails, contacts and calendar to a new computer,
with Outlook closed, just copy your pst file.

 

[Gordon]

When I tried that before it labeled it backup by default... Do I need to
rename it so that it will overwrite that same named file on the new pc or
leave it as "back up" and outlook will just take care of it?

oooh no, don't overwrite anything. Copy the old pst to somewhere other than
the default location, (in My Documents for example) and then in Outlook go
to File-Open-Outlook Data File and navigate to where you copied it to....

HTH