Don't Laugh....address book

[Bobby]

Ok! have old address book in folder on hardrive from old
computer. old system was windows 98. new sywtem windows
xp.
how do I move the address book and calendar to the new xp
without having to reenter each item.

How did it get to folder on new system....computer shop
took all of old "C" drive and put in folder.

Help!

[Joli Ballew]

Perhaps you can simply copy the address book as a csv file to a floppy disk
and carry that floppy to the new computer? Use File>Import>Address Book and
browse to the floppy.

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"Bobby" > wrote in message
...
> Ok! have old address book in folder on hardrive from old
> computer. old system was windows 98. new sywtem windows
> xp.
> how do I move the address book and calendar to the new xp
> without having to reenter each item.
>
> How did it get to folder on new system....computer shop
> took all of old "C" drive and put in folder.
>
> Help!

[Mike Hall]

If you set the old drive up as a slave in your new system, you can import
the address book by pointing to the old address book file.. use the import
command under FILE..

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History is only the past if we choose to do nothing about it..

"Bobby" > wrote in message
...
> Ok! have old address book in folder on hardrive from old
> computer. old system was windows 98. new sywtem windows
> xp.
> how do I move the address book and calendar to the new xp
> without having to reenter each item.
>
> How did it get to folder on new system....computer shop
> took all of old "C" drive and put in folder.
>
> Help!

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

address book and calendar... you could be talking about Outlook which
stores everything in a .pst file. In win9x, look in windows\Local
Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook to find that file.

In XP, Outlook stores that file in ... ready ... C:\Documents and
Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook in the
file Outlook.pst.

Depending on your old version of Outlook, you can just copy the file
over with Outlook closed and then open Outlook.

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Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Bobby" > wrote in message
...
> Ok! have old address book in folder on hardrive from old
> computer. old system was windows 98. new sywtem windows
> xp.
> how do I move the address book and calendar to the new xp
> without having to reenter each item.
>
> How did it get to folder on new system....computer shop
> took all of old "C" drive and put in folder.
>
> Help!