addresses in outlook

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Rajat Aneja

Hey, I have just migrated from Windows XP to Windows Vista Business and I
have installed Office 2003 with SP3 on it. In Windows XP, whenever I sent or
forwarded mail to somebody, in the To: box by typing just couple of
characters, I used to get the entire email address with it. after migration
to new system and importing my PST file on the new system, This has stopped.
I want that thing to start happening again. Anyone has any clues about it.
Plese help.

Rajat Aneja
 
Rajat Aneja said:
Hey, I have just migrated from Windows XP to Windows Vista Business and I
have installed Office 2003 with SP3 on it. In Windows XP, whenever I sent
or
forwarded mail to somebody, in the To: box by typing just couple of
characters, I used to get the entire email address with it. after
migration
to new system and importing my PST file on the new system, This has
stopped.
I want that thing to start happening again. Anyone has any clues about it.
Plese help.

Rajat Aneja
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<sigh> WHY did you import your pst? You don't IMPORT Word documents when you
move them to a new machine, do you?

What you are talking about is Autocomplete. That will have re-started from
scratch with the new OS and Office Installation...you will have to give it
time to re-build the file.
 
Rajat Aneja said:
Hey, I have just migrated from Windows XP to Windows Vista Business
and I have installed Office 2003 with SP3 on it. In Windows XP,
whenever I sent or forwarded mail to somebody, in the To: box by
typing just couple of characters, I used to get the entire email
address with it. after migration to new system and importing my PST
file on the new system, This has stopped. I want that thing to start
happening again. Anyone has any clues about it. Plese help.
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Do you have access to the original XP machine or did you do an in-place
upgrade to Vista on the same machine?
 
Hi Brian,

It is a new machine not the upgrade of same machine from XP to Vista.

Thanks

Rajat Aneja
 
Rajat Aneja said:
It is a new machine not the upgrade of same machine from XP to Vista.
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Then you should be able to copy the file
%AppData%\Microsoft\Outlook\mailprofile.NK2 and put it in the equivalent
folder in Vista, making sure it has the same name as the mail profile there.

By the way, importing a PST is NEVER the correct way to transfer Outlook
data. Just reuse the PST by configuring the mail profile correctly.
 
Hi Brian,

Thanks for the important input, it worked very well, I copied the file onto
the new machine and it worked. Thanks a lot. just one thing the file name is
not mailprofile.nk2 but outlook.nk2 and has to be pasted in
AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook folder.

Kind regards

Rajat Aneja
 
Rajat Aneja said:
Thanks for the important input, it worked very well, I copied the
file onto the new machine and it worked. Thanks a lot. just one thing
the file name is not mailprofile.nk2 but outlook.nk2 and has to be
pasted in AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook folder.
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That's because your mail profile's name is "Outlook". The NK2 file is named
to match your mail profile's name. That's why I wrote "mailprofile" - so
you'd get the idea that the file's name matches your mail profile's name.
 
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