Re: Common message store - 2 operating systems - long

From: Steve Cochran (scochran_at_oehelp.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:49:31 -0500

Just to add to what the others said, you need to do the following:

1. Set up OE on one partition the way you want it.
2. Backup the registry keys listed here: www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
Make sure if you are backing up from XP or Win2000 that you export the
registry key as Win9x compatible (click on the drop down file extension box
in the Export dialog).
3. Boot to another OS.
4. Open regedit and delete the Identities registry key and the Internet
Account Manager registry key (and the WAB as well, if you are sharing the
address book).
5. Click on the reg files for the registry keys that you backed up in the
other OS to merge them in this OS.

That should then permit sharing between the OSs. You can boot to the other
OSs and then do steps 4 and 5 again.

Each time you change a message rule or add or remove an account, you need to
repeat the process.

cheers,

steve

"Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in
message news:#br$jnBGFHA.3732@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hello all! I have been having a strange problem for over 1 1/2 years now.
As
> a doctor says, if it hurts to press there, don't do it. Well, I haven't
been
> pressing there. Still, as I used to be able to accomplish what I am about
to
> relate, I would like to find out if anyone else has been successful, and
if
> so, what is your methodology!
>
> I have been dual/triple booting computers since about 1993. In my previous
> endeavors I was always able to set up a common Outlook Express message
store
> (on a partition common to all the operating systems) so that I could
> send/receive e-mails, and maintain my Microsoft Newsgroups, from whatever
> O/S I had booted into. I have done this successfully while I had Windows
> 98se, Windows 2000 and Windows XP on the same computer (each in their own
> primary partition).
>
> I am still able to do this IF I rebuild my computer and install the
original
> version of Windows XP that is 3+ years old. I set up the common message
> store, test it thoroughly from each operating system and everything is
fine.
> I can then update to XP-SP1 or XP-SP2 and everything continues to be OK.
>
> Here's the wrinkle! If I install Windows XP that has been slipstreamed
with
> either SP1 or SP2, I can switch to using the common message store. The
> problem is that after using Outlook Express from Win98 (or Win2K), and
then
> booting up in Windows XP, the newsgroup listings have been cleared - each
> and every time. I rebuild them in Windows XP (my primary O/S - of course)
> and use the groups for a few days. All is fine.
>
> I then boot up into say Windows 98se to work with a program that will not
> run under the other O/S's. I, of course, need to respond to any e-mail
> messages from there. If I open Outlook Express there are no news groups
> visible. I look in the recycle bin and can retrieve them. Then, and only
> then, will they still be there when I again boot into Windows XP
>
> I am not a programmer, but maybe a script that can recover only .dbx files
> from the recycle bin(automatically run prior to shutting down either
Windows
> 98se or Windows 2000)? I am, and have been, using the Norton Recycle bin
> since it's inception, so I don't thing that enters into play here (or
maybe
> it does)!
>
> As there is a manual work around, this is not the most critical problem,
but
> I sure would like to find a cure! If I don't, I will continue as I have
been
> for the past 1 1/2 years.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
>
> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>

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