Paul, or anyone,
I have windows 10, and use Outlook for my email. A few weeks ago Windows
10 went belly-up, and would not open any program. The Windows fix was to
reload Windows 10, did same, and lost everything. My question does
anyone know how to save Outlook emails with attachments easily so I can
back-up to a different drive?

Regards,
Norman Parmley

I use Linux and highly recommend it. I was at Randy's shop recently and
he is running Windows 10. He doesn't answer his email so that might
have something to do with it :-) It would not read my USB  chip or even a
CD that had some jpgs on it.

Basically the last half way decent OS was Windows 7 or XP.
Perhaps you can buy a copy from Fry's and back up to something that works.

If you are just doing email and you don't have some high priced program that
needs to run on windows you should try Linux. I have been using it
for 18 years and I have over 500,000 files.

Same for the Thunder Bird email program. I have all the email dating
back to 1998. You know
how much email goes through here. I can search all the emails back
to 1998.

Gimp is free and it is powerful image manipulation program that I process
all jpgs. There are several paint programs plus about 68,000 other free
programs. I has a high speed search engine that can find any key word
in msec. The free video editing software is called One Shot

Linux is the basis for everything on the Mac. It is also the basis for
Android which the majority of all cell phones use. That is not the apple
phones which  also use a Linux based OS but they don't call it android :-)

I back up on 3 gig USB hard drives. The operating system is free and the
upgrades are free. Ubuntu is about the best distribution.

Linux can have 32 virtual screens and one can have 32 programs
running in those 32 virtual screens. Email in one google in another and
back ground music in a third.in <http://third.in> another. Four or five jpgs open in others.
I can switch back and fourth by just clicking on a row of small boxes at
the bottom of all of the 32 screens. No way could I do what I do with
this newsletter
with out that feature. It is called work space switcher.

Firefox is the browser.

I keep an old Windows computer lying around with windows 7 to run the one
or two programs that do not run on Linux like Rhino 3D. I do not hook them
to the Internet for virus reasons. I have never in 18 years had a Linux
virus.

If you back up on a regular basis and you do find something wrong with
the OS you can reinstall it or just upgrade to the next version. A new
version comes out about once a month. There are a million Linux OS
programmers around the world constantly finding better ways to do things.
That is the advantage to open software.

Paul Lamar

Your outlook emails are all stored in a file called: outlook.pst
Search for *.pst on your C: drive. to locate the directory it is in. Usually it is stored under
C:\users\name\My Documents\Outlook Files.
Copy the entire file periodically to back it up. It is also possible to open multiple .pst files if they have different names.
Hope that helps.

Craig Smith



The new computers that came with Windows hate factory installed do not have the correct drivers to run 7 or XPATH.  Found that out when I was hateing Windows.


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