well, you do it the same way he did....


"shannon" <shannon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C5B0BBD2-05FD-480D-BE8C-0C3DDCA18988@microsoft.com...
> clarification: we are setting up a new computer and my husband set up his
> user account and successfully got my email account from our old computer
> (outlook express) onto this new computer. (old address book and all!) I
> have set myself up as another user on this new computer and would like to
> get
> my email off his profile and onto mine. when i try to set up a new
> account
> it works, but it doesnt bring up my old emails, addresses ect.
>
> "shannon" wrote:
>
>> 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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>> >