similiar trouble. new computer husband found my old outlook mail account and
brought it up on his new user account. How do I remove it from his account
to mine and still get all of my old emails. using vista. thankyou

"Malke" wrote:

> Jeremy wrote:
> > Using Vista. My accounting program crashed recently. Managed to restart by
> > adding lost file but only as a new user. I now want to transfer all my
> > email, onenote and other files to this new user account. Any ideas?
>
> Copy a user account to another with Windows Easy Transfer - from MVP
> Jimmy Brush
>
> "Simply pretend that your administrator account is the "old computer"
> and your new user account is the "new computer". Also, make sure you
> manually specify what files to transfer, and only select the files under
> the admin user profile - you obviously don't need to transfer files that
> are outside of the admin user profile, since they will be staying the same."
>
> I assume that when Mr. Brush says "administrator account" you could
> substitute "my old user account" for this. I copied his reply to a
> poster and they may have been using that term in the thread.
>
> Caveat - I haven't tried this and I don't know if it would get the
> email. Copying a user account in XP didn't get the email and I don't
> know if the same applies in Vista.
>
>
> Malke
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