Import messages into Vista
Windows Mail from Outlook Express
Update:
http://www.vista4beginners.com/Migrate-from-Outlook-Express-to-Windows-Mail
This site has step by step directions on "How to manually
migrate all your e-mail accounts, messages and your address book
from Outlook Express to Windows Mail.
To transfer Outlook Express messages (not your other settings)
from a computer running Windows XP to a Vista computer. (Applies
to all editions of Windows Vista)
On the computer running Windows XP, do the following:
1. The folder that contains the Outlook Express messages is
marked as a hidden folder in Windows. To view this hidden
folder, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click
Appearance and Themes, and then click Folder Options. Click the
View tab, and under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden
files and folders.
2. Locate the folder named Outlook Express. In Windows XP, this
folder is located here by default: C:\Documents and
Settings\your user name\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{your Windows user identity
number}\Microsoft\Outlook Express.
3. Copy the Outlook Express folder and all its contents to the
Documents folder on the computer running Windows Vista. (You can
store this copy of the Outlook Express folder in a location
other than the Documents folder, as long as you remember where
to find it.)
On the computer running Windows Vista, do the following:
1. Open Windows Mail by clicking the Start button , clicking All
Programs, and then clicking Windows Mail.
2. Click the File menu, point to Import, and then click
Messages.
3. Click Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and then click Next.
4. Make sure Import mail from an OE6 store directory is
selected, and then click OK.
5. Click Browse, find the Outlook Express folder you copied to
this computer, and then click the folder once to select it. (Do
not open the folder when you select it.)
6. Click Select Folder, and then click Next.
7. Click All folders to import all the folders, or click
Selected folders and select which message folders you want to
import, and then click Next.
8. Click Finish.
The Windows user identity number is different for every user. It
will be inside brackets and look similar to this sample number:
{8389CA60-ED34-11DB-95EE-10AE55D89593}
If Windows XP is installed on another hard disk location other
than your C: drive, use that drive letter instead of C: when
searching for your Outlook Express folder.
Outlook Express stores your messages in a folder that contains
several different .dbx files. These files (folders.dbx,
inbox.dbx, outbox.dbx) contain all your messages. Windows Mail
cannot import any of these files individually; you must import
the entire Outlook Express folder.
If Windows Mail is unable to import your messages, make sure
none of the files in the Outlook Express folder are marked Read
only. Open the folder, select all the files, right-click them,
click Properties, and make sure the Read only check box is
cleared.
Windows Mail cannot import messages from IMAP or HTTP e-mail
accounts, even if those messages were stored in Outlook Express.
For information about these e-mail types, see POP3, SMTP, and
other e-mail server types. Windows Mail also cannot import any
newsgroup messages you may have had stored in Outlook Express.
You can also import your Outlook Express Address Book into
Windows Contacts so you can use these contacts with Windows
Mail.
How to shrink a
partition in Vista
It's a common problem: you want to create a new partition (for
example, so you can install another instance of the operating
system, or to separate your data from your OS and program files)
but your computer came with the hard drive configured as one
gigantic partition. In the past, you had three choices: you
could format the drive, losing all your data, and repartition.
If you did that, you had to start all over from scratch. You
could buy a third party program such as Partition Magic to
repartition without losing data. Or you could just buy a second
hard drive and install it.
With Vista, you can use the Shrink option to shrink an existing
partition. This creates unallocated space out of which you can
create a new partition. Cool! Here's how:
Be sure you're logged on as an administrator.
Click Start and right-click Computer.
Select Manage. You'll get the UAC prompt asking if you want to
continue. Click Continue.
Expand the Storage node in the left pane.
Click Disk Management.
Right click a partition that has plenty of free space and select
Shrink Volume.
Enter the amount of space you want to subtract from the
partition and click Shrink.
Now right-click the new unallocated space, click New Simple
Volume, then click Next.
Enter the size for the volume, click Next, give it a drive
letter, click next again, give it a name (volume label) and
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Vista Icons or add Icons to desktop
Right click on the desktop then click personalize, once there
look to the left pane near the top and click Change Desktop
Icons. Check the box for which icons you want to appear on your
desktop, close/OK out and you're all done.
Get rid of "Windows has blocked some startup programs"
message.
Click the Blocked Startup Programs icon on the taskbar, next to
the clock.
Click on Run Blocked Program.
Select System Configuration Utility.
Check the box labeled "Don't show this message or start System
Configuration when Windows starts.
Click OK.
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want to do one of two things. Install a second OS or manage your
boot configuration without directly editing the BCDEdit file. As
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to make changes to the Windows Vista Boot Configuration Data
(BCD) registry quickly and easily, doing the job in a fraction
of the time it would take using the alternative. The only other
way to edit the BCD is to use the command prompt application "bcdedit.exe,"
located in the Windows\system32 folder of Windows Vista, which
requires users to become familiar with the ins and outs of the
bcdedit.exe switches and options, leaving many frustrated users
in its path. VistaBootPRO allows users to easily and neatly
organize their boot configuration entries from within all
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Make XP the default OS when dual booting with Vista
Boot.ini is gone in Vista; it's been replaced by the Boot
Configuration Data or BCD file that's located in a folder called
BOOT on the primary active partition. You can edit it with the
command line tool bcdedit.exe.
Here's how:
Open the command prompt with administrative privileges by right
clicking its icon in the Accessories menu and selecting Run As
Administrator, or by typing cmd in the Search box and hitting
Ctrl+Shift+Enter and responding to the User Account Control
dialog box.
Once you have a command prompt in admin mode, type: bcdedit
/default {legacy}
You should get a message saying "The operation completed
successfully" and when you reboot, XP should be set as the
default OS.
You can change the timeout value in the same way. At the command
prompt, to change the time to 15 seconds, type: bcdedit /timeout
15
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Flash Problems
Some Web Pages do not load or display correctly.
1) Note that if you have a "Flash" problem, (even if
it works on some but not on all sites) first try
Uninstalling and reinstalling the
Macromedia Flash Player.
Follow directions here because you Can
Not use the Windows
"Add/Remove" for Flash. This usually resolves Flash problems.
The uninstaller is available at:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157&sliceId=2
2) In your IE browser, click on Tools>Internet Options>Advanced
tab. Be sure the box next to
"Enable third party browser extensions" (requires restart) is
checked.
No
need to Browse to get the path, Use "Copy as path"
When you hold down the Shift key and right-click, the menu will
also include an option labeled Copy as Path. This copies the
entire path of the file or folder to your clipboard, for you to
paste wherever you please.
This can be useful when you've located a file in Windows
Explorer and you want to upload it to a Web site. i.e. Instead
of browsing for the file through the site, just copy and paste
the path.
Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover (FxVisor 1.3)
Shrink or remove the annoying arrows that appear on shortcuts on
your Vista Desktop.
Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover, aka FxVisor, allows you
to either way to remove the shortcut overlay arrow or to even
customize it in Windows Vista, so we have written the Vista
Shortcut Overlay Remover utility to enable you to do just that.
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Change the
name of Vista's registered owner
To view the registered owner of your computer, click Start,
typing winver, and pressing Enter.
To change the registered owner:
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1) Click Start, type regedit in the search box, and press Enter.
2) Click Continue to clear the User Account Control hurdle.
3) On the left, double-click to navigate down to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \
CurrentVersion
4) On the right, double-click on RegisteredOwner.
5) In the Value Data box, type new name you want to appear as
the registered owner, then click OK.
6) Double-click RegisteredOrganization, and type the new
organization in the Value Data box.
7) Click OK.
8) Exit the Registry Editor, run winver to view change.
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Vista Default Programs
The Default Programs item on the new Start menu makes uncovering
important settings far easier than it was in XP. The useful
dialog includes choices for selecting the apps you want to use
as defaults (for certain file types or for all appropriate file
types), and also with associating file types with applications.
It also makes changing AutoPlay options easy. Finally, the
menu includes the formerly elusive Set program access and
computer defaults options, which can help control such unwelcome
behaviors as Windows Messenger starting up every time you so
much as look at your monitor.
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Windows Vista
Devices and Drivers
Microsoft offers a growing collection of driver resources for
users of Windows Vista. Here's the latest collection of online
resources, which will be updated periodically as others become
available:
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Tweak Windows Vista in many
different ways.
You'll be able to tweak Vista in countless way, including for
speeding up performance, juicing up Internet speed, cleaning up
your hard disk, cleaning out startup programs, and even tweaking
Windows Media Player and Explorer. There are numerous settings
here, many of them exceedingly fine-grained. Want to change the
speed at which the Start menu search display? Yes, you can do
it, and plenty more as well. The program is free, and there's a
lot to play with. Download it
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Sidebar wastes too much space
There's no known way to make the sidebar smaller, but you can do
this:
You can have your gadgets without running the sidebar. Just drag
them off the sidebar onto any area of the desktop. Then right
click an empty part of the sidebar and select Close Sidebar. The
gadgets can be put wherever you want them on your desktop, and
you have no empty sidebar space taking up valuable screen space.
Clean up the Send To menu
Are there items in the Send To menu that you never use?
In Windows Explorer, navigate to: \Users \ *your username* \
AppData \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ Windows \ SendTo
You'll see shortcuts in the folder for each item in the Send To
menu. To remove an item, delete the shortcut from the folder.
You can add additional items by highlighting the folder and
clicking File | New | Shortcut and creating a new shortcut with
the wizard.
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