My parents pc is full of viruses, unused programs and other shit because they never clean it up. Now this pc is pretty old, it is running Windows XP with a Pentium 4 2.6 ghz, 1.5 gig ram and a Geforce 6600GT.
My goal is to install windows 7 on it(If this is a bad idea, please do tell as i don't know if the pc is strong enough to run it) and to have a fresh new start with this pc.
There are some problems though which i need some help with.
First, my parents want to keep all of their contacts and especially all of their emails from Outlook express. Is it possible to create a backup of these so they are still readable when i install W7?
Second, i don't really know which files i need to keep and which i don't, and i don't have the time to figure this out. Is it possible to just copy-paste the whole c-drive onto my portable hard-disk?
Third i forgot, might remember it later.
If you could help, that would be cool.
thanks
1. Yes, there is some menu option in outlook, i havent used it in ages so i dont remeber what it is, sorry.
2. Well if you copied the whole C: drive then you would copy all viruses n shit 2.
3. I don't know
I have found the Outlook folder and there is a .pst file in there called Outlook. Underneath it say Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders. Is this the file that houses all the emails?
Ahh yes, I believe that is the file you need. There should be some import/export wizard also in outlook, but you should copy that .pst file just incase
Don't install 7. No point. That computer is plenty fast! Especially with xp! I have laptops running xp with 128mb of ram and they are plenty fast. Just turn off startup items, and disable services, and run ccleaner, and defrag. I don't think I could bear to write out the process to increase the performance of your pc by atleast 80 percent again... Just google, how to make xp faster.
[QUOTE=Maccabee;20102494]Don't install 7. No point. That computer is plenty fast! Especially with xp! I have laptops running xp with 128mb of ram and they are plenty fast. Just turn off startup items, and disable services, and run ccleaner, and defrag. I don't think I could bear to write out the process to increase the performance of your pc by atleast 80 percent again... Just google, how to make xp faster.[/QUOTE]
Yes but the problem is there are just too much unused files to sort out, and neither my parents nor i have the time to go trough them all.
A clean install would just be much quicker, plus i like Windows 7
[QUOTE=Maccabee;20102494]Don't install 7. No point. That computer is plenty fast! Especially with xp! I have laptops running xp with 128mb of ram and they are plenty fast. Just turn off startup items, and disable services, and run ccleaner, and defrag. I don't think I could bear to write out the process to increase the performance of your pc by atleast 80 percent again... Just google, how to make xp faster.[/QUOTE]
Fuck off back to 2001 with your XP fanboidom
Just use Outlook's export options, I bet there are tons of tutorials for that on the tech-savvy-old-people websites.
And that computer will run Windows 7 just fine, if the only thing your parents will be doing is using Outlook.
Just install windows 7 everything will be in windows.old .
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[QUOTE=Maccabee;20102494]Don't install 7. No point. That computer is plenty fast! Especially with xp! I have laptops running xp with 128mb of ram and they are plenty fast. Just turn off startup items, and disable services, and run ccleaner, and defrag. I don't think I could bear to write out the process to increase the performance of your pc by atleast 80 percent again... Just google, how to make xp faster.[/QUOTE]
My laptop ran like shit with xp and runs way better on Windows 7 stop derailing threads that have to do with installing Windows 7, when you haven't tried it. Windows xp is almost ten years old stupid.
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