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Windows 7 Compatible
I jsut got a new PC. Old PC ran Outlook Express 6 c2004. New PC came with
Excel, Word, PP but not outlook. Can I copy my Outlook Express 6 over to the new PC - compatible with Windows 7? |
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Did you actually buy Office or are you referring to the commonly pre
installed Trial version? Ray F wrote: I jsut got a new PC. Old PC ran Outlook Express 6 c2004. New PC came with Excel, Word, PP but not outlook. Can I copy my Outlook Express 6 over to the new PC - compatible with Windows 7? |
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Ray F wrote:
I jsut got a new PC. Old PC ran Outlook Express 6 c2004. New PC came with Excel, Word, PP but not outlook. Can I copy my Outlook Express 6 over to the new PC - compatible with Windows 7? When it was supported, OE came bundled with IE. OE has long been unsupported. It is a dead program. The last program updates were back in 2002 with one later functional change in SP-2 for Windows XP to add registry hacks for top/bottom-posting and signature placement. The development team was disbanded in 2006. You cannot get OE separately from IE. They came bundled together. As of IE7 and later, OE is no longer bundled with IE. IE6 was the last version that bundled OE with it. Microsoft isn't going to bundle unsupported products with supported products. Windows XP comes with IE6 as its baseline version hence why OE is available. Vista comes with IE7 and Windows 7 comes with IE8 as their baseline versions of that web browser. You cannot install earlier versions of IE on those Windows platforms. You could run VirtualPC, VMWare Server, VirtualBox, or other virtual machine managers (VMMs) on Vista and then install a pre-Vista version of Windows in a virtual machine (VM) to have OE running inside that virtual machine. That requires installing the VMM, installing pre-Vista Windows in a virtual machine (VM), and then load that VM when you want to run OE. According to Microsoft's EULAs, you will need another license of Windows to run it inside a VM. That is a lot of work and nuisance to run a long-dead e-mail client. For Windows 7 (Professional and Ultimate editions), a license of Windows XP SP-3 is included called XP Mode. If you install XP Mode and then Windows VirtualPC (WVPC), you will have Windows XP available as a guest OS running inside a VM. Windows XP comes with a baseline version of IE6 which means OE6 will be available; see http://preview.tinyurl.com/Win7xpmode-IE6OE6. Note: Windows 7's XP Mode had required the CPU to support hardware- assisted virtualization (http://preview.tinyurl.com/wiki-CPUvm). Microsoft removed this limitation and now permits XP Mode to use software- based virtualization (http://preview.tinyurl.com/XPmode-noHdweReq). Some VMMs will run faster using their own software code than the virtualization extensions added to the CPU (e.g., VirtualBox); however, VirtualPC 2007 is not so blessed. A guest OS running in a VM is significantly slower than the host OS. Software-based VMs are slower than hardware-assisted VMs. Windows Mail (WM) is the e-mail client included in Windows Vista. Windows *Live* Mail (WLM) is the replacement for both OE and WM. Windows 7 does not come with an e-mail client pre-installed so you will have to install one. For WLM: http://download.live.com After installing just WLM, go into Add/Remove Programs and uninstall the unwanted extra fluff software that Microsoft pushes onto you, like the SignOn Assistant. While WLM is reminiscent of OE, it has some functional differences. For help, the WLM newsgroup is at: microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop There are plenty of other e-mail clients available, some of which are free, like Thunderbird (and a derivative called Sunbird), or PIM programs that have an e-mail functions, like EssentialPIM. You'll have to decide what e-mail client you want to use under Windows 7 since that OS doesn't include one. |
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