Outlook email back up

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Chris Diesel

My wife's laptop has turned out to have Office and Outlook programs that are
apparently only a demo types and are now time expired. I have a genuine
copies of both Office Outlook and Office Home and Student 2007 for my desk
top and I'm advised by Microsoft that I can use these genuine programs also
on her laptop. But I need to first delete these demo programs and them
install the genuine ones. My concern is that I'll delete of all her emails
and saved word documents in the process.

Can you suggest some a user friendly, step by step instructions that I can
read on how save her emails first and then how to delete these old (demo)
programs and re install the new programs.

Regards....Chris
 
Uninstall the Trial together with its Activation Assistant, then rebooting,
prior to installing a retail version of Office does not remove data.
If for some odd reason the Outlook data file isnt reconnected on
installation it is a simple matter to reconnect it
 
Chris said:
My wife's laptop has turned out to have Office and Outlook programs that are
apparently only a demo types and are now time expired. I have a genuine
copies of both Office Outlook and Office Home and Student 2007 for my desk
top and I'm advised by Microsoft that I can use these genuine programs also
on her laptop. But I need to first delete these demo programs and them
install the genuine ones. My concern is that I'll delete of all her emails
and saved word documents in the process.

Can you suggest some a user friendly, step by step instructions that I can
read on how save her emails first and then how to delete these old (demo)
programs and re install the new programs.

Regards....Chris
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Document files are saved elsewhere. They aren't part of the file set
for the programs. Uninstalling Office will not remove the documents
from wherever you saved them.

However, isn't it about time you start considering a backup strategy for
more than just this scenario? If you don't backup your files then you
deem them trivial or reproducible.
 
Chris Diesel said:
I have a genuine copies of both Office Outlook and Office Home and Student 2007 for my desk
top and I'm advised by Microsoft that I can use these genuine programs also
on her laptop.
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I think you might have misunderstood. Certainly you can install Office Home and Student on her laptop, but I suggest you look at the EULA for your copy of Outlook.
It may well say something like this:
"a. Licensed Device. You may install and use one copy of the software on the licensed device.
b. Portable Device. You may install another copy on a portable device for use by the single primary user of the licensed device.
 
I have a genuine copies of both Office Outlook and Office Home and
Student 2007 for my desk
top and I'm advised by Microsoft that I can use these genuine programs
also
on her laptop.
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I think you might have misunderstood. Certainly you can install Office Home
and Student on her laptop, but I suggest you look at the EULA for your copy
of Outlook.
It may well say something like this:
"a. Licensed Device. You may install and use one copy of the software on
the licensed device.
b. Portable Device. You may install another copy on a portable device for
use by the single primary user of the licensed device.

** Well, the Office Home and Student 2007 certainly says it's licensed for 3
PC's. But nothing like that is written on the Outlook 2007 box. As for
checking the EULA, I have no idea where to look for that? But when I spoke
with the person from MS, I was assured that I could use it on my desk top
and lap top. (The lap top might be used by the wife. But I paid for the
bloody thing!).

Regards....Chris
 
VanguardLH said:
Document files are saved elsewhere. They aren't part of the file set
for the programs. Uninstalling Office will not remove the documents
from wherever you saved them.

However, isn't it about time you start considering a backup strategy for
more than just this scenario? If you don't backup your files then you
deem them trivial or reproducible.
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So the word doc's saved in the My documents folder with be ok when I
un-install Office Home and Student 2007. But where do I find the storage
folder for Outlook emails. Sorry for the ignorance. But I've never used
Outlook. I'm very stubborn and still use Outlook Express! I'll copy the
whole lot over to an external hard disk before I do and program deletion.

As for back up strategy. Well, I do back up my desk top and now, I guess
I'll be expected to back up the wife's lap top, right after I've mowed lawns
on Sunday!

Regards....Chris
 
But where do I find the storage folder for Outlook emails.
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Open the Mail applet in Control Panel and click the Data Files button. Read
where the PST is located.
 
Chris Diesel said:
** Well, the Office Home and Student 2007 certainly says it's licensed for
3 PC's. But nothing like that is written on the Outlook 2007 box. As for
checking the EULA, I have no idea where to look for that?
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Assuming Outlook is installed on your desktop, in Outlook do Help-About
Microsoft Office Outlook and click the link about three-quarters of the way
down the box "View the Microsoft Software License terms"
 
Chris said:
VanguardLH wrote ...

So the word doc's saved in the My documents folder with be ok when I
un-install Office Home and Student 2007.
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Office doesn't install any of its program files in your My Documents
folder.
But where do I find the storage folder for Outlook emails.
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Those are under your %userprofile% folder. Office installs its program
files under the %programfiles% folder. It does same some user-specified
configuration or template files under your %userprofile% folder but
those are in separate folders than your documents.

The message store (.pst file) for Outlook should be saved under your
%userprofile% folder use to hold your documents (although you can choose
to save them elsewhere). You could search for the .pst file to make a
backup copy of it. Or use the File -> Data Files Management menu to see
the list of message stores currently defined to Outlook where you can
see where they are to make backup copies of them.

Also, you can get the Personal Folders Backup (PFB) add-on for Outlook.
It will make a backup copy of your .pst file in the path you configure
(like to a different drive) at the intervals you specify. While doing
system backups saves your butt for all your files, sometimes you just
want a backup copy of the .pst file that is accessible outside your
backup program.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=8b081f3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01

After installing it, access it under the File -> Backup menu.
 
Chris said:
Well, the Office Home and Student 2007 certainly says it's licensed
for 3 PC's. But nothing like that is written on the Outlook 2007 box.
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It says. It doesn't say. So which is it? How do you know that 3
licenses for *Office* are included? I've seen 3-license packs for
Windows but volume licenses for Office start at 5.

So why are you asking about Outlook if what you have is the Home and
Student edition of Office 2007? That doesn't include Outlook. See the
list of what components are included in each edition of Office 2007.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/fx101635841033.aspx

Outlook 2007 is /*NOT*/ included in Office 2007 Home & Student. You
will have to review the EULA for the *unidentified* version of Outlook
that you actually do have and which is SEPARATE of your Office 2007
edition. You have two separate products. Since you are asking how to
deploy Outlook to your wife's host, you'll have to read the license for
THAT product.
 
VanguardLH said:
It says. It doesn't say. So which is it? How do you know that 3
licenses for *Office* are included? I've seen 3-license packs for
Windows but volume licenses for Office start at 5.
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Now VLH, don't go all funny on me. Clearly, I'm talking about two different
products in two separate boxes. I would have thought that was obvious from
what I wrote above and when I earlier said, "I have a genuine copies of
both Office Outlook and Office Home and Student 2007."
So why are you asking about Outlook if what you have is the Home and
Student edition of Office 2007? That doesn't include Outlook. See the
list of what components are included in each edition of Office 2007.
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That's correct, which is why I brought Outlook 2007 at the same time.
 
Gordon said:
Assuming Outlook is installed on your desktop, in Outlook do Help-About
Microsoft Office Outlook and click the link about three-quarters of the
way down the box "View the Microsoft Software License terms"
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Thanks Gordon
 
Chris said:
Now VLH, don't go all funny on me. Clearly, I'm talking about two different
products in two separate boxes. I would have thought that was obvious from
what I wrote above and when I earlier said, "I have a genuine copies of
both Office Outlook and Office Home and Student 2007."


That's correct, which is why I brought Outlook 2007 at the same time.
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You were the one that brought up what the license said for MS Office
2007 Home & Student. You claim it says (somewhere) that you have 3
licenses for it. Great, that means you can install THAT product on 3
different hosts. That says NOTHING about what you can do with the
standalone Outlook product.

So back to what I said: What does the EULA says for the standalone
*Outlook* product that you have installed already on your host and
intend to install another copy of that same license on your wife's host?

Toss everything out about MS Office 2007 Home & Student. That it has 3
licenses is totally irrelevant. That has nothing to do with your
Outlook install on your wife's host. Look at the EULA for the Outlook
product to determine if you can install it on multiple hosts. Not
likely but possible.
 
Hi DL,

Thanks for your help. It all worked just as you said and no problems either.
Both my versions of Office Outlook 2007 and Office Home and Student 2007
loaded up ok, as well. No data was lost.

Chris
 
You can try a tool called Advanced Outlook Repair. You can download a
free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe . I think
it is a useful repair tool for you. It is easy to recover your PST
file by using its wizard. It is a powerful tool to recover your mail
in outlook, folders and other objects from corrupt or damaged
Microsoft Outlook PST files.

Detailed information about Advanced Outlook Repair can be found at
http://www.datanumen.com/aor/

Wangdong
 
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