Vista - access to PST files

I recently installed vista and set up the microsoft mail. I am trying to
bring in my pst files from my outlook account and am unable to locate how to
get them either imported in or a pointer set to them. Can anybody help.

I had to load from a new directory so all previous setting and programs are
gone.

I managed to get my pst data be first importing it into Outlook
Express and then importing into vista mail.

Jerry


On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 06:54:08 -0800, "Owen Lewis"
<owenlewi@isomedia.com> wrote:

>I recently installed vista and set up the microsoft mail. I am trying to
>bring in my pst files from my outlook account and am unable to locate how to
>get them either imported in or a pointer set to them. Can anybody help.
>
>I had to load from a new directory so all previous setting and programs are
>gone.

You must have Outlook installed on the Vista machine, and the PST file must
be opened in Outlook and set as the default. You can then open Windows Mail
and use its menu, File/Import/Messages, selecting From Outlook.

Without Outlook also being installed, a PST file by itself is useless.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.


"Owen Lewis" <owenlewi@isomedia.com> wrote in message
news:eJtMklNMHHA.3268@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I recently installed vista and set up the microsoft mail. I am trying to
>bring in my pst files from my outlook account and am unable to locate how
>to get them either imported in or a pointer set to them. Can anybody help.
>
> I had to load from a new directory so all previous setting and programs
> are gone.

I have the same problem. I try to install outlook but i cant find on without
internett explorer 6, and this i cant instal due to that i have a newer
version installed.. Eny tips?

Well, the problem is it won't let me run Outlook on the vidta machine...I
have outlook 97 and after I install it it won't let me launch it...I backed
up my pst files but don't know how to set them to "default" in outlook if it
won't let me open outlook to begin with...

"Jim Pickering" <jimp (AT) mvps.org> wrote in message
news:59A6DA65-9456-46E1-AA4C-F7A7C999DAE5@microsoft.com...
> You must have Outlook installed on the Vista machine, and the PST file
> must be opened in Outlook and set as the default. You can then open
> Windows Mail and use its menu, File/Import/Messages, selecting From
> Outlook.
>
> Without Outlook also being installed, a PST file by itself is useless.
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
> Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.
>
>
> "Owen Lewis" <owenlewi@isomedia.com> wrote in message
> news:eJtMklNMHHA.3268@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I recently installed vista and set up the microsoft mail. I am trying to
>>bring in my pst files from my outlook account and am unable to locate how
>>to get them either imported in or a pointer set to them. Can anybody help.
>>
>> I had to load from a new directory so all previous setting and programs
>> are gone.
>

You would need to obtain a more up to date version of Outlook than OL97,
which had as its main virtue, that it was for awhile, available as a free
download. Such is no longer the case, but without a version of Outlook
installed on your computer, your PST file is just a collection of useless,
unreadable junk. Sorry.

You might try looking around on Slipstick for some alternatives (Slipstick
is *the* soource for answers to questions about Outlook/Exchange, etc.:
http://www.slipstick.com/
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

"Vandervoort" <vandervoort@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
news:Ox3VxEBQHHA.4124@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Well, the problem is it won't let me run Outlook on the vidta machine...I
> have outlook 97 and after I install it it won't let me launch it...I
> backed up my pst files but don't know how to set them to "default" in
> outlook if it won't let me open outlook to begin with...
>
> "Jim Pickering" <jimp (AT) mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:59A6DA65-9456-46E1-AA4C-F7A7C999DAE5@microsoft.com...
>> You must have Outlook installed on the Vista machine, and the PST file
>> must be opened in Outlook and set as the default. You can then open
>> Windows Mail and use its menu, File/Import/Messages, selecting From
>> Outlook.
>>
>> Without Outlook also being installed, a PST file by itself is useless.
>> --
>> Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
>> Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.
>>
>>
>> "Owen Lewis" <owenlewi@isomedia.com> wrote in message
>> news:eJtMklNMHHA.3268@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>I recently installed vista and set up the microsoft mail. I am trying to
>>>bring in my pst files from my outlook account and am unable to locate how
>>>to get them either imported in or a pointer set to them. Can anybody
>>>help.
>>>
>>> I had to load from a new directory so all previous setting and programs
>>> are gone.
>>
>

I thought Outlook 98 was the one offered for a limited time
as a free download.

-Michael

"Jim Pickering" <jimpickering@noplace.invalid> wrote in message
news:4426F9B4-429E-485D-BA4D-2C9CD9370B90@microsoft.com...
> You would need to obtain a more up to date version of Outlook than OL97, which had as its
> main virtue, that it was for awhile, available as a free download. Such is no longer the
> case, but without a version of Outlook installed on your computer, your PST file is just a
> collection of useless, unreadable junk. Sorry.
>
> You might try looking around on Slipstick for some alternatives (Slipstick is *the* soource
> for answers to questions about Outlook/Exchange, etc.:
> http://www.slipstick.com/
> --
> Jim Pickering
> MVP-Windows Mail applications
> Please reply only to the newsgroup.
>
> "Vandervoort" <vandervoort@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:Ox3VxEBQHHA.4124@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Well, the problem is it won't let me run Outlook on the vidta machine...I have outlook 97
>> and after I install it it won't let me launch it...I backed up my pst files but don't know
>> how to set them to "default" in outlook if it won't let me open outlook to begin with...
>>
>> "Jim Pickering" <jimp (AT) mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:59A6DA65-9456-46E1-AA4C-F7A7C999DAE5@microsoft.com...
>>> You must have Outlook installed on the Vista machine, and the PST file must be opened in
>>> Outlook and set as the default. You can then open Windows Mail and use its menu,
>>> File/Import/Messages, selecting From Outlook.
>>>
>>> Without Outlook also being installed, a PST file by itself is useless.
>>> --
>>> Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
>>> Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Owen Lewis" <owenlewi@isomedia.com> wrote in message
>>> news:eJtMklNMHHA.3268@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>>I recently installed vista and set up the microsoft mail. I am trying to bring in my pst
>>>>files from my outlook account and am unable to locate how to get them either imported in or
>>>>a pointer set to them. Can anybody help.
>>>>
>>>> I had to load from a new directory so all previous setting and programs are gone.
>>>
>>

That's what my memory said reading Jim's post.

"MICHAEL" <u158627_emr@dslr.net> wrote in message
news:ebvTAFEQHHA.780@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I thought Outlook 98 was the one offered for a limited time
> as a free download.
>
> -Michael
>
> "Jim Pickering" <jimpickering@noplace.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4426F9B4-429E-485D-BA4D-2C9CD9370B90@microsoft.com...
>> You would need to obtain a more up to date version of Outlook than OL97,
>> which had as its main virtue, that it was for awhile, available as a free
>> download. Such is no longer the case, but without a version of Outlook
>> installed on your computer, your PST file is just a collection of
>> useless, unreadable junk. Sorry.

You could both be right, and I don't have an Outlook guru available right
now since Milly is offline and I don't see any others online at the time.
That's what happens when I trust my memory, which is getting harder and
harder to recall anything correctly from, as aging continues to exert its
decline upon me. <G>

But, I still think it was OL97 since I've got a couple of CDs around with
just it on them and I think they were freely distributed, but maybe they
came with a couple of old PocketPCs running Windows CE.
--
Jim



"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:07698CCD-86A2-472B-929B-B80F6BE14C2C@microsoft.com...
> That's what my memory said reading Jim's post.
>
> "MICHAEL" <u158627_emr@dslr.net> wrote in message
> news:ebvTAFEQHHA.780@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>I thought Outlook 98 was the one offered for a limited time
>> as a free download.
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>> "Jim Pickering" <jimpickering@noplace.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:4426F9B4-429E-485D-BA4D-2C9CD9370B90@microsoft.com...
>>> You would need to obtain a more up to date version of Outlook than OL97,
>>> which had as its main virtue, that it was for awhile, available as a
>>> free download. Such is no longer the case, but without a version of
>>> Outlook installed on your computer, your PST file is just a collection
>>> of useless, unreadable junk. Sorry.
>
>

Maybe both Outlook 97 and 98 had free offers?

I know Outlook 98 had a free download period.

Maybe those disks you have, you got at some
event.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/...942/17942.html
June 29, 1998

Outlook 98 free offer ending soon!
I just wanted to remind everyone that Microsoft's offer to download Outlook 98 for free ends
June 30th, so if you want to grab what I consider to be the best email client out there (yes,
it's huge, and yes, there is way too much in there, but still...), then you've only got a short
time to get it for free. Existing Office 97 or Outlook 97 customers will, however, be able to
upgrade to Outlook 98 for free indefinitely.

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol98.htm
Outlook 98 is the second version of Microsoft Outlook, introduced in March 1998 as a free
download, later maintained as a free upgrade for registered Outlook 97 users and finally
withdrawn from web download just before the release of Outlook 2000 in June 1999.



"Jim Pickering" <jimpickering@noplace.invalid> wrote in message
news:B1446C83-B66B-44AA-9038-7453A1E9528E@microsoft.com...
> You could both be right, and I don't have an Outlook guru available right now since Milly is
> offline and I don't see any others online at the time. That's what happens when I trust my
> memory, which is getting harder and harder to recall anything correctly from, as aging
> continues to exert its decline upon me. <G>
>
> But, I still think it was OL97 since I've got a couple of CDs around with just it on them and
> I think they were freely distributed, but maybe they came with a couple of old PocketPCs
> running Windows CE.
> --
> Jim
>
>
>
> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:07698CCD-86A2-472B-929B-B80F6BE14C2C@microsoft.com...
>> That's what my memory said reading Jim's post.
>>
>> "MICHAEL" <u158627_emr@dslr.net> wrote in message
>> news:ebvTAFEQHHA.780@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>I thought Outlook 98 was the one offered for a limited time
>>> as a free download.
>>>
>>> -Michael
>>>
>>> "Jim Pickering" <jimpickering@noplace.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:4426F9B4-429E-485D-BA4D-2C9CD9370B90@microsoft.com...
>>>> You would need to obtain a more up to date version of Outlook than OL97, which had as its
>>>> main virtue, that it was for awhile, available as a free download. Such is no longer the
>>>> case, but without a version of Outlook installed on your computer, your PST file is just a
>>>> collection of useless, unreadable junk. Sorry.
>>
>>