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To import your Outlook Express Mail Account: 1. Click on Tools and then Accounts 2. Click on the Mail tab. 3. Click Import. 4. In the Look in box at the top locate your backup folder. 5. Select the mail account you wish to import. 6. Click Open. 7. Do this for all individual email accounts. 8. Click Close.

I hope this has proved useful to people.

Hi all Thanks to this thread, I have finally backed up everthing and feel good about. tomorrow i am going to buy a flat screen monitor and a new keyboard........all part of my upgrade..........OH and of course a pen drive. but can i ask, what would be the largest file be a 100kb or 100mb? cheers sylviax

I don't understand your question, Sylvia. Largest file for what?

hi errol sorry not tech yet...even after 5 years..lol......i mean file size. what takes up the most room. I have a 628MB file size and a 722KB file size

mb is larger than kb 1 byte = 8 bits 1 kilobyte (kb) = 1,024 bytes 1 megabyte (mb) = 1,024 kb = 1,048,576 bytes 1 gigabyte (gb) = 1,024 mb = 1,048,576 kb = 1,073,741,824 bytes The numbers appear to be odd figures because they are based on the binary system. The word bit is derived from 'binary term', a storage unit capable of holding a single character (in other words it is either 'off' or 'on'). Often, the numbers are (incorrectly) rounded to a thousand etc.

Oh thanks for explaining it to me I understand now. I think I need to go on a PC maintenance/itc course or something (I have taught myself, and learning the hard way).....I think they run one at my local college. Anyway I am going now for the evening and relaxing with a nice glass or two or three of wine.........by all means enjoy your evening too. goodnight Sylviax

A pen drive is another name for a memory stick - it plugs into your usb port and acts as a mini hard drive that you can carry around with you. It's about the size of a cigarette lighter.

Errol the Sheep is a Gem... Ive just backed up all my emails!! Thanks so much... Sara

Thanks Errol Saving for later Janet

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Just read this after the last nudge. re emails: I don't use outlook at all now (techo reasons to start with when we went onto broadband using a different server to our email account) but the main thing is I really don't miss it - I just go into my ya hoo account through internet explorer. It's got tons of memory space to store emails and because my address book is on there I can use my account anywhere in the world no problem. SO..... if my pc goes 'pop,fizzz' I've still got all my addresses & old mails. re usb sticks/pens: I just discovered these amazing things - I went on holiday in the summer to my parents in England. I took my FTM installation disc and a usb stick which I had put my gedcom onto. It took about 2 minutes to have my entire tree exactly the same as my home one on my dad's pc !!! I got further use out of it when I went through all my parents old photos of rellies, photographed them and transferred the photos from my camera (when its card was full) onto the stick/pen too - about 1000 of them. They all made it home fine and I've uploaded them all back onto my home pc. It's a 1g stick and cost about £20. A computer-shop-owner friend of mine lent it to me for the trip but I'm not giving it back now !! I took him the £20 as soon as I got home!! Once you've discovered the joys of usb I can't see any reason why you'd want to faff about with nero & company in the future - a bit long-winded, sorry Sarah :-)