Hi, Oreally.
Then you have two hurdles to get over, both of which I mentioned before:
1. Physically moving your settings and data (mostly your email (.eml)
messages. WET will handle that for you. You CAN use a special cable
between the computers to transfer the files, but my one attempt at using a
cable several years ago did not go well. The main trouble was the very slow
transmission of what was - for me - a few GBs of data in hundreds of
thousands of small files. Each .eml file must be stored on the new drive,
then the directory must be updated so that it can be found. Each file can
be done quickly, but when there are MANY of them, it can take a LOOONG time.
A USB thumb drive can make this process much easier. Just plug it into your
WinXP machine, run WET to put you files onto it, then move it to your Win7
computer and use Win7 to run WET again to retrieve the files. Even this
method can take a long time if you have a lot of .eml messages. And, either
way, don't bother to transfer your newsgroup (.nws) files; you will need to
download those from the news server again later.
2. WLM 2009 is no longer available from the usual sources, but you can
download WLM 2011 (and as many of the other Windows Live Essentials as you
choose) from
http://explore.live.com/windows-live...tials?os=other .
If you still have your installation file for WLM 2009, it will install in
Win7. If not, I'm sure others here will know how you can find and install
it.
Many users - including myself - feel that WLM 2011's advantages outweigh its
admitted faults. Others adamantly refuse to give up WLM 2009. I'll leave
that choice up to you. (Many others choose to leave WLM altogether and
install Thunderbird or Agent or some other third-party mail/news client.)
Without knowing all your facts - and all your preferences - we have to
consider many contingencies in trying to advise you. That's why it is often
easier to do than to explain. But, as I said, millions of users have
already made this transition, and I'm sure you can, too.
Invest some time in reading the messages here in this newsgroup. Then make
your decision(s).
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1
"Oreally" wrote in message news:incs8n$lad$...
Thanks....
We're buying a Windows 7 new HP computer and we're currently running WLM
2009 on XP3 on this machine.
Oreally
"R. C. White" <> wrote in message
news:FsqdnRH4gpHIfQTQnZ2dnUVZ_r-...
> Hi, Oreally.
>
> The short answer is to run WET (Windows Easy Transfer) on the WinXP
> machine to Export all or most of your settings and data for WLM (and many
> other apps) to a USB thumb drive or other media, then run WET again on the
> Win7 machine to Import them.
>
> But the complete answer depends on several factors that you didn't tell
> us.
>
> Will this be on one computer? Or from one to another? Are you upgrading
> a single computer from WinXP to Win7? Or did you get a new computer with
> Win7 and WLM installed? Which version(s) of WLM? (The word "desktop" was
> deleted from the program name back in 2006, although it lives on in the
> name of this newsgroup.) If WinXP and Win7 can access the same HDD, the
> transfer can be very easy; if not, then we have to deal with getting all
> the messages from one set of hardware to the other. But millions of users
> have already done this, so I'm sure you can, too.
>
> Note that WLM 2011 won't run on WinXP, so I guess that you've been using
> WLM 2009. But WLM 2009 is no longer available through normal channels, so
> you will be upgrading to WLM 2011. This does not affect your transition,
> but be prepared for a different UI (User Interface), including the Ribbon
> UI that was introduce in Office 2007.
>
> When you furnish more details, we can offer more-focused instructions.
>
> RC
>
>
> "Oreally" wrote in message news:inbk7o$fit$...
>
> We've been using WLM Desktop with XP. How do we reinstall it and import
> our
> mail and settings for Windows 7?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oreally
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