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    Windows 7 Easy Transfer - problem with email

    I just went through the export from Windows XP using the Windows 7 easy transfer program. After scanning the XP system it displays the components and allows you to accept or decline the transfer. I don't see email anywhere on the lists. Email is the primary thing I want to transfer. I use...
  2. Windows 7 When to Switch from Windows Mail to Windows Live Mail?

    I have posted this question in two different CNET forums - "E-mail, chat, & VoIP" and "Windows 7" - but have received no response to either. Thought I might have more success here. I am currently using Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium. I've seen numerous reports that Windows Mail will not be...
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    Windows 7 Can I reinstall a Win 7 Image to a larger partition?

    Hello: I had fist installed Win 7 in a separate partition so that I could dual boot between XP and Windows 7 until I was confortable that Win 7 was for me. I'm now happy with Win 7. XP is now on partion D:\ and Win 7 is on partion C:\. I just took an image of drive C:\ onto an external DVD...
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    Windows 7 Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail ??

    Currently running Win XP using Outlook Express, will install Windows 7 on new partition, how do I move all my personal folders from OE to Windows Live mail ??
  5. Windows 7 XP users: How to upgrade to Windows 7

    You had good reason to stick with XP and skip the Vista experience entirely. But now that the folks at Microsoft have created a new operating system that's worth moving to, they haven't made the upgrade easy, because you have to perform a clean install of the OS. Here are the issues you need to...
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    Windows 7 BOOTMGR Missing

    Ok long story. I have 2 hard drives. HArd drive #1 has windows 7 RC1 installed, and #2 is storage. I got a copy of windows 7 pro and decided to install that and move over since RC1 will eventually vanish. I installed everything new and moved over music and everything to the #2 hard drive...
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    Windows 7 Simple transfer of XP sys files to Win7?

    I installed Win7 on my computer by installing on a 'new' hard drive, after removing the drive that housed XP. Is there a simple way to transer certain program files and settings to W7 without buying a specialty program? I didn't know about the "Windows Easy Transfer" before I installed W7, so...
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    Windows 7 Old Software

    My new PC is 64 bit my older ones have been 32 bit. I had one program I really wanted that I couldn't install. I suspected just a 16 bit installer but the maker of software no longer in business. Tonight it finally dawned on me to try Easy transfer and it worked! Homer Simpson finally figured...
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    Windows 7 UpgradeHelp "Windows could not retrieve information about the disks on this computer"

    Hey guys im running a completley fine version of Vista 64 but i want to upgrade to Windows 7 64 since i tried it out on my laptop and i preferred it to Vista. Anyway I have 1 Hard Drive split into 2 partitions, one been 70gb - 10gb free space (Windows Vista) and the other is 300gb - 60gb free...
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    Windows Vista special folder default locations

    Can anyone help....? I have tried moving the default locations of the Vista special folders now a few times by using the move location route. All seems to go well until at some point, something goes wrong or I do something wrong and I find a whole host of files being copied over when I know...
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    Windows 7 here we go again with File Copying issues

    trying to copy a wmv file from a cd rom to my hard drive in windows 7 and seeing that stupid "calculating:mad:" message that goes for 200 years with no actual copying being done. What is this and how do i fix it? I used to see this crap in vista too.
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    Windows 7 Change c: to I: and vice versa

    I posted this with no results in another w7 forum. Perhaps I'll have better luck here. I have a small C: drive with too much stuff on it, and a new 250GB i: drive that is nearly empty. How can i interchange these two drives so the big one is c: and the little one is i:? I will rebuild w7 rc...
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    Windows 7 Moving 2nd partition onto deleted 1st partition?

    I put 7100 on a second partition on my p.c. so I could test it out since I have had to revert to 7000 paritition on this machine on all builds after 7022 due to internet loss bug. However I have solved the problem and am now ready to move the second partition over onto the first one, which I...
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    Windows 7 [HELP] Need help regarding partioning. How to move XXGB from X: drive to Z: drive

    Ok I need major help on this! I'm currently on Vista Ultimate. If I go to Administrative Tools and select Computer Management and select "Disk Management" I can see my drives. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!! I have the drives like this: DISK_0 [150GB] "MAIN BACKUP (D:)" - 150GB NTFS [Active...
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    Windows 7 File Transfer problem

    After installing Win 7 on this computer I decided to use the Easy Transfer system (using migwiz file) to copy documents and settings across from another computer that uses Vista. The transfer occurred OK and then required a restart on finishing. From that point onwards there was no way I...
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    Windows Vista Vista Easy Transfer problem

    I just spent 18 and a half hours running Vista Easy Transfer on my old XP computer. I sent the files to an external hard drive. There were files on Drive C: & Drive D:, with the majority of them being on D:. When I tried to transfer them to the new Vista computer, it brought me to a window...
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    Windows Vista Installing Vista upgrade disc on new HD

    Hi all, My first post. I have not been able to find a previous thread about this, there may be a reason for that, but here goes. I currently have XP installed, but want to finally install my Vista Home Preimum upgrade that I got a little over a year ago. I don't want to loose the XP in case...
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    Windows Vista restore from *.wbcat and zip backup files

    Hi I was having a Lenovo X61 laptop installed with Windows Vista Business. I did a backup using Control Panel > Backup Centre to a USB hard disk. After the Backup I saw it was backed up as *.wbcat (Global Catalog) files and numerous zip files. Now I am trying to restore it to a new X61...
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    Windows Vista Moving user folders

    Hello, I'm new here, this is my first post. I have a problem. I just installed Vista ( no SP1, I will do that later... ) and I need to move all my user folders to other partition. I googled but there is no tutorial that can help. When I go to Start I see my username ( In this case Cozmika )...
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    Windows Vista Where are the program data files?

    I am moving data from an old XP computer to a new Vista OS computer. When I try to find the folder for appdata on the Vista computer, supposedly in my user folder, I cannot find it. Is it somehow hidden, and if so, how do I view this folder? Norman