How do I import my address book to my new computer ?

If outlook express is similar to outlook you can archive it and email it to yourself and have the new computer's outlook/express open it and read it.

 

I'm not an Outlook Express fan at all, but this should help: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/help/email/faq_importaddress.html

I highly recommend moving to www.mozilla.org 's Thunderbird as a mail client.

If the above link doesn't do it for you, search google for: 'outlook express address book' and you should see plenty of helpful results which tells you how to move the .wab file (windows address book) or .pab (older outlook - non outlook express personal address book).

 

Easy: left click "address book", then left click "file".
Then click "export" and save to a CD-ROM drive (write to CD)
On the new computer follow the same steps, except use "import" and browse for the source (the CD ROM)

 

zip and email the file to yourself.

 

Hmmm, some advice.

Do not store contacts in your address book ... unless you want to help the people that write virsuses. Where do you think these programs first look ... thus they will email themselves to your mates, etc. This is Computers 101.

If you must just create a notepad or word document (or even Excel file) with your contact email addresses in them.

Pete

 

no zip drive needed. winzip does it for you. download/install the trial version. locate files that you exported, right click - 'zip and email'. what it does is compress those files into one .zip file.

more details on zip files: think of it like a binder full of documentation. that binder is full of 'and's and 'the's. each instance of 'and' has a token assigned to it and that eliminates the need to write out 'and' each time, it instead gets filled when the token matches to 'and'. well, that is a pretty simplified version on how compression works.

 

WinZip download

Pete