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Tom

After I upgraded from Windows 98 to XP Home over the
weekend, I have found that I am unable to access Outlook
98. MS told me that they consider it obsolete now but
they have transferred me to the Outlook tech support area
where I have been on hold currently over an hour. So, I
am wondering if anyone knows how I should go about
restoring the data on Outlook 98 and will it import into
Outlook 2000 or 2003 should I upgrade to these programs?
Thank you.
 
Tom said:
After I upgraded from Windows 98 to XP Home over the
weekend, I have found that I am unable to access Outlook
98.
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First, enable showing hidden files and folders (Control Panel>Appearance and
Themes>Folder Options>View). Then search your hard drive for files whose
file type are ".pst" (for Windows 98 it was in C:\Windows\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook). Make a copy of that file or simply move it to
somewhere (like My Documents). Then, you can ether reinstall Outlook 98 or,
if you have purchased a newer version of Outlook, install that. After
installing, create a mail profile for yourself (Control Panel>User
Accounts>Mail) and when you add the "Personal Folders" service to the
profile, you can simply point to the PST file that you saved earlier or
create a new one in the location Outlook will choose for you by default. In
the latter case, after starting Outlook, you can use File>Open to open the
old PST and copy its contents to the new PST. All versions of Outlook from
97 to 2003 will be able to operate on your old PST. If you use OL2003 and
create a new PST, it will have a different format that is not backward
compatible with older versions of Outlook.
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