how do I go back to media center 2004?

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If you used Outlook Express for mail, do a search for .dbx files in the
windows.old directory.. when found, move them all to a safe folder of your
creation.. if you don't find any, contact your ISP re. accessing your mail
from the ISP homepage..

Favorites were in Documents and Settings under the old installation.. look
for the folder, then the administrator subfolders for your old favorites,
and again move them out to a safe folder..

OK.. set up your e-mail in Windows mail, and then import mail from the safe
folder containing the .dbx files..

Re favorites, run a search on 'start menu'.. the search will find two
instances in Vista.. one will be named 'all'.. create a shortcut to desktop
for the start menu.. click on the resultant icon.. .. now open the 'users'
folder, then the 'all' folder.. this is where you will move your saved
favorites..
 
What if you didn't upgrade and you had all your music and files on your
system. Then your hard drive crashed.

Do you have a complete backup of all your data? Can you restore it to a
newly formatted system if you had to replace your hard drive?

I always make backups on another drive, then I also burn them to a DVD or CD
depending on the amount of data needed to be saved.

Just in case.......
 
I copied the dbx files from the search to oe old and windows mail says the
don't exist for some reason. It found 70 of them. News groups, mail folders,
internet account settings,etc I want to import them all into windows mail so
I don't have to reset all my passwords again.

As for my favorites are you saying I have to manually import them?
 
does anyone know how to transfer the files into vista? Another problem vista
keeps crashing every hour. WHY? I'm ready to toss my computer out the window
in about 5 minutes if someone doesn't help me figure this out. Vista was
SUPPOSED TO BE MORE STABLE THAN XP. IT IS NOT.
michael e dziatkowicz said:
I copied the dbx files from the search to oe old and windows mail says the
don't exist for some reason. It found 70 of them. News groups, mail
folders, internet account settings,etc I want to import them all into
windows mail so I don't have to reset all my passwords again.

As for my favorites are you saying I have to manually import them?
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Yes, probably quite a few people here know how to accomplish what you
want--or close to it.
And any one of them, if they sat down in front of your computer, could
likely do it.
But can anyone here guide you step by step, with all the unknowns about your
system and what state it may be in after a borked "upgrade", by posting back
and forth? Perhaps not.
Why is your Vista crashing? I don't know, because I know nothing of your
hardware, what drivers you may yet need, and how you chose to set things up.
Is Vista more stable than XPSP2? Some might say yes, and some might say no.
There are far too many variables involved.
I really do feel sorry for you, and hindsight is a wonderful thing, but you
were the one putting in the DVD and clicking "OK/YES" when Vista setup
informed you what it was about to do--and 'upgrade' was not shown.
Good luck.

It's been over 5 minutes--do you still have your computer?
 
yes and it still reboots when it wants to. How can I backup my emails from
windows.old and vista and then just trash the hard drive and start with
windows xp professional? Also how do you burn isos in vista since all of the
programs want $$$ and I don't get paid til next week and I can't access my
emails where I bought my copies of nero and roxio online from 2006.
 
ok. I copied the *.dbx files to c:\oe old and tried to point windows mail
there and it told me that no messages could be found. All the windows search
could find were my newsgroups, and email boxes not the individual messages
themselves.
 
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