From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:49:22 -0700, Randall Parker
 wrote:

>My goal: Get the XP Home box seeing the IE/OE files for mail to be able to
migrate
>them over to the new machine. But I need to get the files that is for the NT
>machine's Administrator user and migrate them to (I'm guessing) an account
that is
>NOT called Administrator on the XP Home machine.

You can burn the files to CD on the NT machine and then import them on the
XP Home machine.

Don't know which version of OE you are running, but on v6 you can right
click on Inbox and select properties to see which folder the message
database is stored in.  Copy all the files in that folder to a CD and put
it in the new machine.  Open OE, click File->Import->Messages, pick
the appropriate application (whichever version of OE is used on the NT
machine) then Import mail from an OE store.  Browse to the folder on CD and
you should be able to pull the messages right in.

You can do the same thing over the network if you can get that part working.

You'll also want to import the old OE address book.  On W2K and greater it
lives in \Documents and Settings\UserName\Application
Data\Microsoft\Address Book.  I'm not sure where it lives in NT, but you
can search for a file with a .WAB extension to find it.

Importing addresses is exposed by the same wizard you use to get messages.


>
>How can you find out what account you are logged in as in XP Home if you never
even
>had to log in when it started up in the first place?
>
>
>Randall Parker wrote:
>
>> The Administrator account exists in XP Home but you can't bring it up?
>>
>> Is Owner a different account than Administrator?
>>
>> WinXP Home won't let an account called Administrator to be created. It
>> says one already exists. But on the User Accounts page under the "or
>> pick an account to change" area it only lists "Owner" and not
>> "Administrator".
>>
>> I'm trying to get an XP Home machine to have the same Administrator
>> account and password as an existing NT box so that the XP Home box will
>> be able to get at disk shares on the NT box...

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