Email on Windows 7???

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OK, i got my dad a new computer and it has windows 7 on it.. now, i know how to remove the 'identities' folder from XP so i can save his emails, but how do i do it for Win7? actually.. how do i setup emails on win7!!?? iv not even SEEN an email app on there!!!

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No email app on Win7, it wants you to use 'Live' (click 'Start' and type 'essentials') - you can install any email client you wish though, I have Office 2010 with Outlook.
 
Right! great stuff.. so i can put on Outlook Express 6??
 
AFAIK Outlook 6 is too old and is incompatible.
 
Hmm.. so presumably the 'identities' folder i copies wont work.. how on earth are you supposed to migrate from one machine to another and keep your stuff???

I HATE COMPUTERS!!!
 
Use Thunderbird and import your pst file from your old computer.
 
Windows Live Mail is the 'new' Outlook Express effectively.

It's actually not bad in the Win 7 / 2011 version. It's missing a load of stuff you'd find in the full Outlook and it does require a Windows Live / Hotmail account to work, but you don't have to use Hotmail for your mail once you've got it running.

For someone less computer literate it's pretty simple and intuitive, plus nice looking in Windows 7.

Thunderbird is a little more complex but does more. I find it a bit clunky and slow though and the UI is dated now.

Outlook is the full blown option, but it's way over the top for what most people need, and is very expensive with Office (compared to just Word, Excel and Powerpoint).

Or if you just want to use Google Mail, could just use GMail client in the browser. Chrome even has an offline app in the browser for GMail.

P.S. PST files from Outlook won't load in pretty much anything but Outlook. Proprietary format and tools that read the files cost money. Thunderbird can read them, but only if you have Outlook installed on the same computer.

However, I can highly recommend MailStore (www.mailstore.com) which is a mail archive product that transfers mail between different mail apps pretty well. The home version won't read PST files, but it will archive from Outlook on a PC that has it installed, then you can restore into another mail app, and you can do one time with a free trial. The pro version reads PST files also, but costs more money.
 
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Windows Live Mail seems to use the contacts within Windows Live (Hotmail etc). I had mine all in there anyway, but if you've set it up to sign into a Windows Live account maybe you could import the contacts into Windows Live online and it should pick it up in the desktop client then.

If you had Outlook Express then the contacts would I guess be in the Windows Address Book. Long time since I played with that so not sure how you export and import with it.

An alternative may have been to use the Windows Easy Transfer tool, which you run on the old machine backs up settings and data, and then imports it all to the new machine, assuming you've got some way of copying the data (USB stick etc). It works reasonably well for migrating to Windows 7.
 
Thank you so much for your help guys.. i'll give it a try next time im at dads and i'll let you know how i get on..
 
Ok, so now i have another problem.. im trying to install a replacement drive, i got a Samsung 1.5Tb but when i try to install Win it says i need drivers for it! so i took it home to format on my Mac, well.. its not showing up in Disc Utilities at all!! im ready to take it back now but if theres any other way to get it going, or if iv missed something id love to hear from you???

Tony..
 
ahh! ok, so i get that from the manufacturers website? but my mac is up to date, it should be recognised on that surly?
 
On the win7 machine, what did you mean by 'install' ?

It will not show up when first fitted. you have to go to disk management and initialise it and then format it. Are you saying it didn't appear there?
 
It appeared, but was greyed out, it said i had to install drivers for it..

I also put it in my Mac Pro, disc utilities didnt even SEE the drive at all!

Anyway, iv been back to where i got it and they said its the FOURTH they have had back this week of that exact model.. they think its a bad batch.. so, i now have a shiny new one to try out..

I'll let you know how i get on..
 
I was installing Win7 at first.. i wanted a fresh install but it wouldnt let me use the drive.. when i put it in my mac as a spare drive osx wouldnt recognise it at all!..

I have a new drive to try tomorrow.. we'll see how that goes! lol..
 
ah so i was right.. i confused myself. not hard lol

chances are youll have the same issue as the windows install wont be able to use the motherboard hard drive controller without the driver for it
 
Right, how do i get the driver on it?

Sorry for being dim! lol
 
what computer and/or motherboard is it?

youll need to get the driver, either from the computer/motherboard website and have it on a disk (cd/usb) when it gives you the message in windows set up about needing a device driver for the disk controller you should be able to browse for it
 
A little update..

Iv put the new drive in and windows loaded no problem! phew!!

Until!! it asked for the CD key! its NOT a copy so i have my own serial number.. but when i put it in, it said it was the wrong one!!

I HATE WINDOWS!!!!!!!!
 
fraggle101 said:
A little update..

Iv put the new drive in and windows loaded no problem! phew!!

Until!! it asked for the CD key! its NOT a copy so i have my own serial number.. but when i put it in, it said it was the wrong one!!

I HATE WINDOWS!!!!!!!!
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What version is the disk ( retail or oem, home, pro or ultimate)and where is the key and what does that say it is for?
 
iv just realised its an update disc!

So iv tried to install an old moody copy of XP just so it had something to upgrade from.. the install got to the part where, on the blue screen, the yellow install progress bar got right to the end, then it turned RED and crashed! it said something like 'unable to load windows!!

Jeez...
 
Not used a 7 upgrade disk but the XP ones always let you clean install but you had to insert the previous version disk when prompted?

As for the XP install does it say "unable to load operating system"? That probably means your partition was created by the windows 7 install. You'll need to format at the relevant point in the XP install.
 
Note you can't physically upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. Has to be a clean install of Win7 even if it's an upgrade version.

In terms of licence you can upgrade, but it will still do a clean install. If you boot XP and stick in the disc it should give you all the information and offer to back up all the data onto an external disc, then you can install Win7 and restore the data. It won't back up apps, only data.

If you don't need to backup anything from XP you should be able to just boot off the Win 7 disc and install it clean. It should ask for the CD key from XP I think to install as an upgrade. You do have one right? ;) (legit one).
 
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