CNET to the Rescue: To fix a bad Windows PC, send it back
The face and voice of the new CNET how-to section , Sharon Vaknin, joins us today as we road-test the Nook and Greplin, gripe at sloppy PC vendors, and advise on the best setup for graphic design student.
If you have a tech question for CNET to the Rescue, e-mail rescue@cnet.com. No question is too basic, so if you've got a tech problem that's been getting under your skin, please drop us a line and we'll try our best to help you out.
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Joshua Salazar: On my new Windows PC they require you to make your own system recovery disc, but the problem is it crashed before I could make one. How could I make one or get one?
Rafe: Your new computer crashed before you could make a recovery disk? Out of the box? Sadly, this still happens. Send it back. That's unacceptable. Also, what the heck, computer vendors?
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Mark from Toronto: A couple of episodes back you were talking about the need to decrapify a new PC. If you already have your own Windows 7 installation disc wouldn't it be quicker to just do a clean Windows 7 install and just use the registration key that's printed on the windows sticker that came with the new PC? Or will that key not work with that Windows 7 disc?
Microsoft confirms that you could reinstall using that. It's a good solution, if you don't mind re-building machines from scratch.
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Sascha from Switzerland: I'll receive a new notebook within the next weeks. Can you tell me the best way to migrate the content from my old notebook (Win XP) to my new one (Win 7)? Especially: How can I keep my Outlook 2010 settings and how do I transfer my iTunes content.
Rafe: For files, settings, and especially for Outlook mail, use Microsoft's own Windows Easy Transfer (we mistakenly called this Files and Settings Transfer Wizard in the show -- that's the old version).
Sharon: For iTunes, if most of your music was purchased from iTunes, you can use iCloud to re-download them all to your new computer. In iTunes, go to iTunes Store > Purchased. Then click "All Songs" and select "Download all." But if your music was ripped (or acquired in another way), you either need to wait for iTunes Match to roll out in September, or transfer all your music to an external HD and move it to your new computer that way.
Gmail And Outlook - News
Have you tried Outlook 2007 using IMAP? It will give you the look and feel you are used to while using Google Apps and your mail server. Google also offers an Outlook sync option that syncs mail, calendar and contacts, but not tasks to GMail.
“Users who like to use keyboard shortcuts whenever possible have now access to a whole new set of shortcuts, taken directly from Microsoft's (News - Alert) desktop messaging client Outlook, as well as the online email services Gmail and Yahoo Mail,”
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So far, it hasn't been practical to consider moving all that to Gmail. As a result, while I check my Exchange account using Microsoft Outlook (or my mobile phone) at least once every 3 minutes or so, I log into my various Gmail accounts quite rarely.
Outlook 2010 and Gmail
I have set up Outlook 2010 and my Gmail successfully sends a copy of a received email to Outlook. But, where are my sent items in Outlook? The software has picked up ancient sent emails (from a previously failed outlook email installation) but not recent ones and so despite using it regularly there is nothing newer than September last year. The sent items are in my Gmail sent folder though.
Basic outlook ro Gmail calendar and contacts.
yahoo mail was around before Google and Gmail and had early adoptors. It also uses folders like outlook. People just used to it.
I think you need to go into your file types and find what defaults to Outlook and change it to gmail.
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