Thunderbird

[Mr Pounder]

XP Pro, Firefox ---- still using OE.
I know that the days of OE are coming to an end so I thought I would give
Thunderbird a look at.
I have imported everything from OE which I am still using. TB works.
Does anybody know how to permanently display all contacts in the left hand
pane as in OE?

Taa

Steve

[Grinder]

F9 shows the contacts sidebar in a *message* window, but I don't know if
it will display by default in subsequent new messages.

[Mr Pounder]

"Grinder" <gri...@no.spam.maam.com> wrote in message
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Taa. Tried it and nothing happened!
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[Grinder]

You can manually select it from the View menu. You might be using a
laptop that have to use a Fn key to get at the F* keys.

[Mr Pounder]

"Grinder" <gri...@no.spam.maam.com> wrote in message

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Aye, I can get my address book in the view menu, I would just like it to the
left of the screen.
I'm not using a slaptop.
I seem to remember a fix for my question, seems it won't work on TB 15.
Taa for your help.

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[John]

Post a message in the 'mozilla.support.thunderbird' news group. I have
found many helpful suggestions there.

John

[John]

Forgot to mention that you must set up a new news account to do so. Go
here for instructions:

http://ilias.ca/moznewsgroups-tb

John

[Mr Pounder]

"John" <Jo...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for all of that.
I have imported my stuff from OE and can get ngs
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[Alan]

"Mr Pounder" <MrPo...@RationalThought.com> wrote in message
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I'm still using OE in WinXP SP3 and can think of no reason to change.

[Mr Pounder]

"Alan" <al...@nowhere.org> wrote in message
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Aye, you are correct. I really do like OE.
Thing is I have a habit of sticking my head in the sand. I stuck with
Windows 98 until the bitter end.
I have sorted that contacts thing out in TB: Click - View, Write Contacts
side bar.
Or it could be Write, View ...

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[HankG]

"Mr Pounder" <MrPo...@RationalThought.com> wrote in message

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I have legal copies of Microsoft Office Professional for Windows 95 and 98
which are still alive and well. I also have a previous edition which is on
floppy disk. I'm still using the '95 & '98 versions. My computer is
version XP. I'm worried what might happen (or not) with these new versions
of Windows (7 & 8). Anybody know if they have compatability modes?

HankG

[John]

I am NOT hearing good things about W8 from long time Window's users
and even from former Microsoft MVP's (MS no longer does the MVP thing).
Basically its intended as a tablet OS rather than a work station OS.
Maybe with a touch screen monitor that would suit you, who knows?

W7 is OK, different than XP or W2K, but not bad. Its selling point is
that it is commonly available (including drivers for modern hardware) in
a 64 bit version so it supports more than 3GB memory. Frankly I wouldn't
recommend less than 4GB (6-8 even better) for W7. W8 - don't know - but
I have yet to see Ms back down on memory requirements.

If you get into that situation there are free replacements for your
software that work just as well as Ms stuff. Are they a bit different?
Sure, but no more so than current MS software is different than former
Ms versions.

Open Office is a free replacement for Microsoft Office and works just
fine. Thunderbird (email & news) and Firefox (browser), both free, are
arguably better than Windows Explorer so I wouldn't worry about it.

There is always the virtual machine route where you install older OS's
inside the virtual machine software which runs on top of a modern OS. I
installed VMware Player (free) in XP where I run Win2K to run old
software that is no longer supported even on XP, let alone W7 or W8.

No worries, someone will scratch your itch,

John

[HankG]

"John" <Jo...@nowhere.com> wrote in message

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I have a Open Office (I think it is the first version) on my drive. What
I'm concerned about is whether my documents (Word, Excel, Access) will run
on OO or whatever in a W7 environment, being that they are ancient. My OS
is on a recovery partition (D) so I would not be able to 'install' it on a
new box virtually. I created a backup of W95 on diskette (around 20 some).
Do new PCs have floppy drives?

HankG

[John]

Yes, generally you need access to original media (install CD's) to
install an OS and then software targeted to that OS into a virtual machine.

Floppies are no longer main stream and so not offered on new machines.
The last time I built (Jan. of 2011) they were still available as USB
floppy drives or better yet multiple media drives (camera cards and
such) that happen to also have a floppy drive but targeted to
aftermarket and home built machines.

Virtual machines depend on the OS that they are installed on top of to
access the machine's hardware. So its nothing like a dual boot where two
or more OS choices are offered at boot time.

Current Open Office is compatable with XP and W7. I have installed it on
both XP pro and W7 64bit. Will it read W95 class files, don't know, I
have nothing that old. I went from Windows for workgroups straight to
NT4 instead of W95 or W98, even at home. I did fiddle with a borrowed
copy of W98 just to get a feel and found that NT4 was far superior in
every way. Why not just ask Google, surely someone somewhere has
commented on the subject.

If you have a friend with a modern computer that is willing to install
(or already) has Open Office ask them to see if they can read your old
files.

John