I went and picked up my new computer last night at Best Buy. Compaq Presario Desktop with AMD Athlon II Dual-Core Processor, 3 gig of ram, 500gb hard drive, and all kinds of stuff. But it’s fast enough, and has all the stuff that needs to be able to run Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 10. It actually meets or exceed the recommended setup. I pulled the stuff out of boxes, and set it up on a card table near my other computer. I booted it up and got the browser up and running. I copied the bookmarks from my old computer over to the new computer. That was successful although they were totally out of order from how I had them on my other computer. Then I started getting the mail program set up. My old computer had Outlook Express, but the new computer has Windows Live Mail. I managed to get Windows Live Mail setup to where I can receive and send e-mails. Now I’m trying to get my old e-mails from Outlook Express installed into Windows Live Mail. I found the e-mails on my old computer and copied the folders onto a thumb drive and I’ve managed to import them into Windows live Mail. But unfortunately it just keeps putting them into the unread e-mail folder instead of putting them into the individual folders like I had them over on Outlook Express. So I may need to do some more research to see if I can do what I want to do. I estimate it will probably take me a couple weeks before I finally get everything moved over to the new machine. My plan is to get the browser up and running, and get the e-mail program up and running which I partially due to all my old e-mails copied over a drywall use e-mail program on the old computer and all. Once I have that stuff set up, I will move my old computer off the computer desk and out of the rack and move the new computer over there. Then set up my old computer on the card table, and I can copy stuff off at my leisure.

Posted by Rob in Computers on February 23rd, 2010 | No Comments