Problem importing from Microsoft Outlook 2000 to Windows Mail

[Kumar]

I had a PC running on Win XP and I was using MS Outlook as my email client. I
recently bought a new PC with Vista and I want to use Windows Mail as my
email client. I copied the old Outlook PST file into a USB thumb drive and
tried to open in Windows Mail but unable to open.

After reading the threads here, I realised that my new PC must have Outlook
loaded first before I can import. I tried to download the MS Office 2007
Trial program but I had an error:

"We are sorry, we are unable to complete your request. You are attempting to
submit an order without any items in your shopping cart. Please try again."

Firstly, how to get a copy of the Office 2007 program? Secondly, is there
any other way to import from Outlook 2000 to Windows Mail?

All help is appreciated.

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

The Office 2007 Trial version is how you go about it, if it won't download,
its probably due to the download server; try again a little later.
Alternatively, you can move all your data from Outlook to Outlook Express on
the old XP machine, then import the OE .DBX files into Windows Mail:

http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#oe2wm
How do I back up my files and settings?

Hal
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[Kumar]

Hi Hal, thanks for the advice.

Why does WM recognise Outlook Express .DBX file and not Outlook file .PST?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

WM is Vista's version of Outlook Express. Outlook is a totally different
email program, and uses a different development team than the
OE/WM/WLM team. Microsoft doesn't really want Outlook users to
downgrade to a free email program.