Win98 registry

[vikingmail]

Hi all,

Until this week I've been happily running Win98 on this machine, but I've
finally bitten the bullet and moved to XP. Bought a new HDD, installed XP
clean and all went well. I have my old (98) HDD hooked up as slave so I can
easily transfer documents over.

BUT, stupidly, I forgot to export the Outlook Express mail rules from the
Win98 registry. Is there any way to open up the 98 registry from XP and
export the appropriate key without having to swap the drives around and boot
98? That in itself wouldn't be a problem, but I've added a new graphics card
etc that I KNOW causes 98 to blue screen :-(

If I have to boot 98 I will, but it would be sooo much simpler if there was
a way to get at the data from XP.

TIA

Rob.

 

[Earthling]

Hi Rob,

I don't use OE myself, so not absolutely sure about this, but if you search the slave for *.dbx you will find OE's data files, any of which can be copied across to the XP system. One of them should incorporate your rules, but it would be a good idea to rename the XP system's dbx files as .dbx.old or whatever first, to simplify undoing.

Bernard

 

[vikingmail]

Hi Bernard,

thanks for that, but I've already copied my mailbase (*.dbx) and address
book - was just my filtering rules that I stupidly forgot to export from the
registry. They live somewhere under HKCU/identities. I suppose I could set
them up again by hand, but there are a LOT of them ... :-(

Rob.

 

[Earthling]

Can you beg, borrow or steal a Partition Magic Disk? It has on it Boot Magic, and I'm pretty sure you could activate either system from that.

 

[vikingmail]

Interesting - I think there's a PM7 disk around here somewhere!

Rob.

 

[Ron Martell]

Hi all,

Until this week I've been happily running Win98 on this machine, but I've
finally bitten the bullet and moved to XP. Bought a new HDD, installed XP
clean and all went well. I have my old (98) HDD hooked up as slave so I can
easily transfer documents over.

BUT, stupidly, I forgot to export the Outlook Express mail rules from the
Win98 registry. Is there any way to open up the 98 registry from XP and
export the appropriate key without having to swap the drives around and boot
98? That in itself wouldn't be a problem, but I've added a new graphics card
etc that I KNOW causes 98 to blue screen :-(

If I have to boot 98 I will, but it would be sooo much simpler if there was
a way to get at the data from XP.

TIA

Rob.

This should avoid any video problems:

1. In Windows XP create a Files and Settings Transfer Wizard diskette
(Accessories - System Tools - Files and Settings Transfer Wizard)

2. Reconfigure your hard drives and boot into Windows XP. Make sure
you boot Windows XP in Safe Mode to avoid the possible video problems.

3. In Windows 98 run the FASTW from the diskette created in step 1 and
save the resulting data in a folder named C:\Transfer.

4. When FASTW has completed shut down the computer, reconfigure the
hard drive connections again, and boot back into Windows XP.

5. In Windows XP run FASTW from accessories - system tools and import
the saved data from the \transfer folder on the Windows 98 hard drive.

For more detailed information on FASTW see the article by MVP Gary
Woodruff at http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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