Re: Common message store - 2 operating systems - long
From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/22/05
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:37:16 -0500
Thank you so far. I will give these things a try.
-- 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! "Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23br$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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