Monday, July 11, 2011

Windows 7 woes

So I must say for the most part I've been pretty happy with Windows 7.

One of the things that heads at Microsoft decide to do was to retire the documents and settings folder and move everything to a Users folder. But they didn't remove the documents and setting folder, it's still there. Just one more thing for me to try to remember as I setup machines for user at my job...
So I had a user who wanted their auto complete contact list moved from their old windows xp machine to their new Windows 7 machine.
So I sort of new what file had to be moved from XP but I couldn't remember figure out where to move it to in Windows 7. Some digging around online I found this site.
http://www.neondemon.com/archives/how-to-move-outlook-auto-complete-address-list
So the old location and new locations is this
For Windows XP: “C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\”
For Windows 7: “%appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook\”

But what I found out is that you need to create the Microsoft and Outlook folder in windows 7, Since Windows 7 actually stores those folder in a different directory under appdata.

Oh the joys of Microsoft.

Mike

Sunday, July 10, 2011

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

I know I've said it in the past, put it's been far too long. So I decide that maybe I should make this into more of a tech blog or just a general info blog about what I find from day to day from being a new dad to working with in Computer industry to being a Husband, home owner.

Guess I'll see where this takes me.

All for now.

Mike