Transferring Your E-Mail And Address Book; Transferring Your Internet Shortcuts; Installing Your Old Printer Or Scanner - Gateway 200 User Manual

Chapter 12: Moving from Your Old Computer

Transferring your e-mail and address book

See your old e-mail program's online help for information on exporting and
importing e-mail messages and the address book. You can often export all of
your old e-mail messages or address book to a diskette or recordable CD or DVD,
then import them from the diskette, CD, or DVD into your new computer's
e-mail program. You may also want to consider printing the old information
or using your old computer to send the e-mail messages to yourself, then using
your new computer to retrieve the e-mail messages.

Transferring your Internet shortcuts

You can export and import your old Netscape Navigator bookmarks or
Microsoft Internet Explorer favorites. For more information, see your Internet
browser program's online help.
Installing your old printer or
scanner
Windows may have built-in support for older printers, scanners, or other
peripheral devices. This means you do not need any additional software. Newer
devices, however, usually require your original software installation CDs or
diskettes.
If you have trouble after you install the software for your old devices, you can
use System Restore to restore your computer's previous settings.
Help and
Support
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For information about restoring your computer's previous
settings in Windows XP, click Start, then click Help and
Support.
Type the keyword System Restore in the Help and Support
Search box
www.gateway.com
, then click the arrow.