Ken--
The OP asked:
"Is there a way to migrate my mails and contacts from Outlook 2007 (Running
under Windows XP Professional) to Windows Mail (running under Windows Vista
Home)"
If he has OL 2007 and either Win Mail (Vista's freebie) or OE (actually
develped for years in conjunction with many of hte components of IE by MSFT
under the hood in several OS's) the free mail client in XP and OS's prior to
it, then whatever mail shows up in OL 2007 is going to show up in Win Mail
or OE respectively via his ISP's server.
I assumed, because it's been my situation on some boxes that the OP had XP
with OE and Vista with Winmail **on the same box.***
***Let me be clear for you. XP and Vista on the same box.***
But he did not say, did he? I should have asked him where he has XP and
where he has Vista and made the point clear about the email showing up in OE
and Outlook simultaneously if they are on the same box.
Even if he has Outlook and OE (XP) or Outlook and Win Mail (on the same box)
on different partitions he can still import accross the partitions. So
while I recognized he was naming Outlook with the original emails and
contacts, he would have the same mail in both using the same ISP on each
partition if he has multiple partitions.
And he has to be using some ISP. That ISP's server is going to distribute
mail to his Outlook account, his OE if XP account, and his Winmail if Vista
account and his Windows Live mail account simultaneously if he's using
Windows 7. The OP didn't specify if he is using a dual or more boot on the
same box though. And to be as clear and explicit as I can, whatever emails
he has in Outlook or going to be in Win Mail. His contacts are of course
stored in these locations per Slipstick:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup2007.asp
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/
And it's very easy to import from XP's OE to Vista's WinMail if he does.
I did make one presupposition though, and that is that the OP had both OE
and Win Mail configured up and ready to send and receive mail, since he
asked about them.
I've seen a lot of your posts on other forums, if I remember correctly, but
you must be relatively new to this one.
The reason I say that is that untill I got busy I was posting prolifically
on this group and the Vista setup group since they started and on Vista well
since before these groups started in other forums on it, including MSFT's.
I've posted hundreds if not a few thousand times on this group and the Vista
setup group. I concentrate mainly on people who are having major systemic
problems with the OS or can't boot, and I've been helping people with Vista
since the Beta started in 7/05. I used to retrieve information on MSFT
licensing because I knew the websites well and what Office had what programs
in it, but I don't have time for that anymore and don't do it when someone
could easily search that using googleMSN Search, or search on
www.microsoft.com and they are too lazy. Once in a while I'll still help
with fixing features in Vista or features lost but I don't do much of it any
more.
I've followed some of the Outlook blogs both from the MSFT teams and the
book authors who maintain them for years when I get the time. OL isn't a
huge area of interest for me, but I use it and apprecaite its features for
business mail.
http://outlook-tips.net/cs/blogs/out...s/default.aspx
Outlook Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archiv...msofficer.aspx
http://office.weblogsinc.com/2005/12...-outlook-blog/
Someone would have to be awfully new to Windows not to understand what free
mail program is in what OS.
Last time I checked,
OE is free in XP and prior.
Win Mail is free in Vista .
Windows Live Mail is free in Windows 7,
If I didn 't know the difference between OE, WinMail, WinLive (free program
in Win 7) or Outlook I wouldn't have wasted time answering the question.
Actually I do understand the difference between OE and OL and Win Mail and
OE and although you can bring up Win Mail in Windows 7, it's difficult in my
experience and Windows 7 is showcasing Windows Live Mail as its free email
program.
I understand you haven't read any of the hundreds of posts I've made on this
group or the Vista setup group since they started or I don't think you would
have mistaken that I don't know the "differene between OE and Outlook and
that one is Microsoft's cash cow for enterprises and one is the free program
that the OE MVPs have lobbied MSFT for features in for years and have not
gotten them.
OE and Win Mail are the free programs that the OE MVPs have struggled for
years to get MSFT to develop features opn, and it's been a valiant but
futile struggle.
Outlook is the free standing or Office component and Office is far and away
the leading revenue cash cow for anyone holding Microsoft stock.
I'm looking at my book shelf and I see about 20 books on Outlook including
the ones/edited by several of the Outlook MVPs for years, including Sue
Mosher's latest book on Programming Outlook.
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Outl.../dp/1555583466
If you google my name and the word Outlook, or use
http://groups.google.com
or one of the newsgroup searchers, you'll see about 100-200 posts where
I've helped and answered questions on Outlook groups, OE groups, and
another few hundred on the Word and Office groups during the last several
years.
This includes a lot of posts in the Office setup group when there was so
much difficulty with installing Office 2003 SP1 because MSFT needed to tweak
the code and Sloan Crayton, the author of many of the Office MSKBs and
developer of much of the Office installation setup, was so helpful during
that period.
Let me be as explicit as I can for you. If you have any questions I'd be
delighted to try to answer them.
In Windows 7:
Anytime I send an email to Windows Live Mail (its free program), and there
is Office on the same box in the same partition, I get the same email in
Outlook via my ISP's server. I have seen Win Mail pop up in Win 7 but it's
a fluke because that's not the way it's designed. I prefer Win Mail to
Windows Live Mail but in Win 7 you can access newsgroups from Windows Live
Mail and except for the gui and some lost features unfortunately, they are
pretty much the same.
In Vista SP2, SP1, and RTM:
Anytime I send email to Win Mail the email shows up in Outlook.
In XP, anytime I send an email to OE, the email shows up in Outlook.
So because of this, the OP was asking about Outlook but he has to have OE or
WinMail on his box depending on the OS. Now it is true that if he has not
configured OE in XP or Win Mail in Vista to send/receive mail, then it isn't
going to have the emails that are sent to his outlook account. But if he
has, he will.
So that's why I honed in on using his Win Mail or OE account and importing
from it and I did that because if he has Outlook and he's configured OE then
all his Outlook emails should have been showing up in OE or Win Mail
depeninding on which OS. I have been able to do this on dual boots and
triple boots accross partitions and that's the main reason I've done it.
There are third party programs that will do this, but I haven't used any of
them.
The email will show up first in whichever of those two email clients is
opened up first.
Best,
CH
"Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:52:17 -0500, "Chad Harris"
> <> wrote:
>
>> As to emails in my experience, if they are on the same machine you should
>> be
>> able to since emails in Outlook are going to be in Outlook Express.
>
>
> I've read that sentence several times now, but I don't understand what
> you're trying to say.
>
> Perhaps you don't understand that Outlook and Outlook Express are two
> very different programs.
>
> Perhaps you also don't understand that Outlook Express is not
> available in Vista at all; it's been replaced by Windows Mail.
>
> And finally, Outlook can indeed be installed on a computer running
> Windows Vista.
>
>
>
>> This is
>> the way I've done it. I've also gone from one Windows Mail to another
>> Windows Mail that was in a different partition on the same box using this
>> method.
>>
>> See:
>>
>> http://www.vista4beginners.com/Migra...o-Windows-Mail
>>
>> CH
>>
>>
>> "Yazou" <> wrote in message
>> news:1DF68980-18D6-4241-979F-...
>> > Is there a way to migrate my mails and contacts from Outlook 2007
>> > (Running
>> > under Windows XP Professional) to Windows Mail (running under Windows
>> > Vista
>> > Home)
>
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> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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