Audrey
December 5th 03, 01:41 PM
Hi Mike!
Went through this a few days ago. This is primitive, but
works:
I set up an icon for the Floppy Drive onto the
Desktops of both computers. Just Click and Drag from the
minimized Windows Explorer using `Copy here' command.
You can Refresh the floppy to the newly inserted
diskette's contents by Right Click, Refresh.
With Outlook Express open in Minimized state [made
smaller to make room for the opened Minimized floppy on
the screen], all emails were Clicked and Dragged, `Move
here' chosen, onto floppies
Then the same was reversed to load them into the
new computer with screens open on the desktop. It also
let me set up the Folders as I had in the original
computer to drop the emails into. Then I could set up
the Message Rules as new messages came into the Inbox
over the next few days. I was going from a Windows 98SE
to a Windows XP Home program.
Click and Drag seems to coax a lot of Older DOS
programs to `seat' into the XP Windows. It seems to
bypass its predelection for Newer programs. For example,
the XP has WordPerfect 10 on it, but I copied all
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS files into a Subdirectory of My
Documents called `My Files,' which I created. Then I did
a Run, A:\INSTALL.EXE and the new computer did a full
install including the licensing from the seven master
floppies of the 1991 program. Now, I can access `My
Files' from either WordPerfect 10, or WordPerfect 5.1 for
DOS and slowly learn the newer program as I go.
I only mention the WordPerfect because I Know it
worked. It probably will work for Older Microsoft Word
programs, too.
You didn't mention copying your Favorites. The
Click and Drag method worked well for that too, once I
found out where they were on each computer in its Windows
Explorer.
Such fun all around!!
Hope this helps,
Audrey
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I just bought a new computer including a program to
>transfer all the files over from the old one to the new
>one. The only thing that DIDN'T transfer over was
>everything in my Outlook Express, so I have none of my
>old mail. (When I opened my mail on the new computer,
>nothing was there.) Can anyone tell me how to transfer
>these over? I tried copying the files, but can't do it
>for some reason. The transfer program isn't working for
>it either now and even Comcast support couldn't help me.
>I'm going from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Any help would
>be greatly apprciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mike
>
>.
>
Went through this a few days ago. This is primitive, but
works:
I set up an icon for the Floppy Drive onto the
Desktops of both computers. Just Click and Drag from the
minimized Windows Explorer using `Copy here' command.
You can Refresh the floppy to the newly inserted
diskette's contents by Right Click, Refresh.
With Outlook Express open in Minimized state [made
smaller to make room for the opened Minimized floppy on
the screen], all emails were Clicked and Dragged, `Move
here' chosen, onto floppies
Then the same was reversed to load them into the
new computer with screens open on the desktop. It also
let me set up the Folders as I had in the original
computer to drop the emails into. Then I could set up
the Message Rules as new messages came into the Inbox
over the next few days. I was going from a Windows 98SE
to a Windows XP Home program.
Click and Drag seems to coax a lot of Older DOS
programs to `seat' into the XP Windows. It seems to
bypass its predelection for Newer programs. For example,
the XP has WordPerfect 10 on it, but I copied all
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS files into a Subdirectory of My
Documents called `My Files,' which I created. Then I did
a Run, A:\INSTALL.EXE and the new computer did a full
install including the licensing from the seven master
floppies of the 1991 program. Now, I can access `My
Files' from either WordPerfect 10, or WordPerfect 5.1 for
DOS and slowly learn the newer program as I go.
I only mention the WordPerfect because I Know it
worked. It probably will work for Older Microsoft Word
programs, too.
You didn't mention copying your Favorites. The
Click and Drag method worked well for that too, once I
found out where they were on each computer in its Windows
Explorer.
Such fun all around!!
Hope this helps,
Audrey
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I just bought a new computer including a program to
>transfer all the files over from the old one to the new
>one. The only thing that DIDN'T transfer over was
>everything in my Outlook Express, so I have none of my
>old mail. (When I opened my mail on the new computer,
>nothing was there.) Can anyone tell me how to transfer
>these over? I tried copying the files, but can't do it
>for some reason. The transfer program isn't working for
>it either now and even Comcast support couldn't help me.
>I'm going from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Any help would
>be greatly apprciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mike
>
>.
>