Outlook/Firefox preferences transfer

sumeet

I am changing computers, can anyone please tell me the easiest way to transfer my outlook express settings and firefox favourite settings from one PC to another.

Thanks.........

Stubert

You can literally just copy and past your Firefox settings I think. There are guides on the mozilla website, or on the portableapps.com version that tells you how to copy over your profile and load it up again.

http://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#local_profile

That just tells you how to switch it to the portable app, but its the same principle as its on a different drive.

Chippy_Minton

For Outlook Express see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670. Backup on old PC, transfer via network, CD-R, USB flash drive or external drive, and restore on new PC.

Scary_

On Firefox it's just a file called Bookmarks.html.

Do a search for it on your hard drive then copy it onto your new PC. Then when you install Firefox either use its import facility or search and replace the 'bookmarks.html' file generated by the new install.

Incidently the firefox bookmarks file is a webpage in itself so you can load open it with any browser on any computer and use it as a normal webpage

Stubert

Scary_ wrote: »

On Firefox it's just a file called Bookmarks.html.

Do a search for it on your hard drive then copy it onto your new PC. Then when you install Firefox either use its import facility or search and replace the 'bookmarks.html' file generated by the new install.

Incidently the firefox bookmarks file is a webpage in itself so you can load open it with any browser on any computer and use it as a normal webpage

This won't copy any of your extensions etc. If you copy the profile it will add these in as well which the link I posted will tell you how to do.

Higgie_2

For Firefox download MozBackup from Mozilla's site, create a folder called Firefox backup, start Moz Backup and save your profile and all your bookmarks to that folder, takes approx 5 seconds, transfer the folder to a floppy for safe keeping incase you do a hard drive format. Sorry cant help with outlook, never use it.