From: "Rich Gauszka" 



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I thought I'd give Windows Easy Transfer a try. So far I'm fairly pleased
with Vista, so why shouldn't I be with that particular component?

I'll tell you why. Because it's trash. I used the advanced options to
select everything I wanted to transfer, and immediately noticed that I
couldn't transfer stuff from one folder into a different one. No biggie;
I'd move it after the transfer. After about two hours of transfer time over
my network,, the process declared its success and I took the old PC
offline.

After I'd moved the gaming PC to my desk, I fired it up and installed a few
other drivers (noting with a great deal of disappointment that HP doesn't
support my 6-month-old PhotoSmart 475 and wants me to buy a new photo
printer-shame on you HP!) and fired up Outlook to see how WET did moving my
email and accounts.

That's when the fun started.

Outlook 2007 told me something about not having a folder to store email.
When I tried to point it to my old PST that made the transfer (but not,
apparently, the migration), it gave me a database error and closed.

No worries, I'd just create a new account and import the PST manually. That
didn't work either, mainly because Outlook refused to open ever again.

I tried navigating through a hazy maze of hidden folders and
double-clicking my PST directly, and Outlook responded with a dialog box
with a hexadecimal number in it and an OK button.

Uh, no, that's not OK.

I Googled the hex number and found it to be another database error.

Why, then, can't I open Outlook? Why can't I just create a new user account
and set up the darn thing manually? Outlook appears to be hopelessly
attached to a PST file that it thinks has a database error.

Okay, so Outlook's out. How about Word?

Apparently, Word 2007 didn't like my Word 2003 settings at all, because
none of them were transferred. I had a special button in the interface for
a quick word count check and some other conveniences, which it completely
ignored. I also had the file locations custom set to a particular folder
where I stored most of my stuff, but everything in Word 2007 was default.

I can live with that. What I can't live with is the fact that WET also
apparently missed a few subfolders that I know I had selected to be
transferred. This is not a case of chair-to-keyboard interface error; I was
careful and thorough.

I'm banging this column out in WordPad because I can't use Word; I'm
running a "repair" of Office 2007 hoping beyond hope that it
somehow gets Outlook to work.

To everyone who wrote me to tell me that a techy geek like me shouldn't be
worried about some computer swapping activities, I'd like to introduce you
to a new enemy of mine: Windows Easy Transfer

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