My next task was to transfer email and address book from Microsoft Outlook (running on XP) to Windows Mail running on Vista.
Sounded easy enough. Mike had backed up to a .pst file but strangely there was no option for importing Outlook. It turns out the option only exists if Outlook is installed on Vista (so what's the sense?)
Next I read that you should export to Outlook Express then import into Windows Mail. But I could see no option in Outlook to export to Outlook Express. The trick was to go to Outlook Express and import the Outlook messages into there. That worked. Then I think (I don't remember exactly -- after all it was yesterday!) I found where the Outlook Express messages were and copied them to the flash drive. Then I went to Windows Mail and imported [see ali_jane] them.
Then it was time for the address book. I couldn't figure out how to import from Outlook, so I wound up (from another tip on the internet - I can't find the link now) [see Michael B on previous link] to export the address book as a CSV file. I copied that file to the flash drive and imported from Windows Mail.
Note: I believe all this was with Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express 6.
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