Outlook Assistance

SYMPTOMS:- After you install Microsoft Office XP or Publisher 2002, your computer's hard disk may run continuously.

CAUSE :- This behavior may be caused by the Indexing Service. To see whether fast searching is installed on the computer, follow these steps.

1. Start an Office XP program or Publisher 2002.

2. On the File menu, click Search.

* If Fast searching is not installed appears under Other Search Options in the Basic Search task pane, the support for fast searching is not yet installed.

To install fast searching, click Install.

RESOLUTION :-
Turn off the Indexing Service
To turn off the Indexing Service, follow these steps:

1. Start an Office XP program or Publisher 2002.
2. On the File menu, click Search.
3. Under Other Search Options, under Fast searching is enabled, click Search options.

NOTE: If Fast searching is enabled does not appear, fast searching is not installed.

* To turn off the Indexing Service and leave the catalog files intact, click No, do not enable Indexing Service, and then click OK.

NOTE: In Windows 2000, Delete appears on the Action menu. Select the catalog and then click Delete.



Uninstall the "Support for Fast Searching" Feature
In addition to disabling the indexing service, you can uninstall the fast searching support for Office. Unless you have a custom need for Office fast searching, you can continue using built-in searching, and you can uninstall the "support for fast searching" feature from all Office XP products that are installed.

1. Quit all Office programs.
2. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
3. In Control Panel, double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
4. On the Install/Uninstall tab, click to select Microsoft Office XP product, where Office XP product is the name of the specific Office product being used. If you are using a standalone version of one of the Office programs, click to select the appropriate product in the list. Click Add/Remove.
5. In the Maintenance Mode Options dialog box, select Add or Remove Features, and then click Next.

This displays the Choose installation options for all Office applications and tools dialog box.
6. Click the plus sign (+) next to the Office Tools, click the icon next to Support for fast searching, and then select the Not Available installation state from the shortcut menu that appears.
7. After you change the installation state for Support for fast searching, click Update.
8.Repeat steps 2 through 7 for all other Office XP products installed.

When you upgrade a computer running Windows XP to Windows Vista, Windows automatically imports any messages and contacts you have in Outlook Express to Windows Mail. (Outlook Express has been replaced in Windows Vista by Windows Mail.)
If you are not upgrading but want to transfer your Outlook Express messages to a computer running Windows Vista, then you need to transfer the messages manually or use Windows Easy Transfer.

If you are just transferring Outlook Express messages (and not all your other files and settings) from a computer running Windows XP, you may find it easier to use the manual method described here.

On the computer running Windows XP, do the following:

1.The folder that contains the Outlook Express messages is marked as a hidden folder in Windows. To view this hidden folder, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Appearance and Themes, and then click Folder Options. Click the View tab, and under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders.
2.Locate the folder named Outlook Express. In Windows XP, this folder is located here by default: C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{your Windows user identity number}\Microsoft\Outlook Express.
3.Copy the Outlook Express folder and all its contents to the Documents folder on the computer running Windows Vista. (You can store this copy of the Outlook Express folder in a location other than the Documents folder, as long as you remember where to find it.) For information about how to copy a folder, see Copy files to another computer.

On the computer running Windows Vista, do the following:

1.Open Windows Mail by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking All Programs, and then clicking Windows Mail.
2.Click the File menu, point to Import, and then click Messages.
3.Click Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and then click Next.
4.Make sure Import mail from an OE6 store directory is selected, and then click OK.
5.Click Browse, find the Outlook Express folder you copied to this computer, and then click the folder once to select it. (Do not open the folder when you select it.)
6.Click Select Folder, and then click Next.
7.Click All folders to import all the folders, or click Selected folders and select which message folders you want to import, and then click Next.
8.Click Finish.

Technology - Microsoft has made available Tuesday evening SP2 of Office 2007. Improvements to the program's most anticipated, native support for PDF, ODF, XPS and increased speed of execution for Outlook.

The release of Service Pack 2 of Office 2007 does not cause as much excitement as the Release Candidate of Windows 7, it does not mean least important. Microsoft is working on for over a year and has made significant fixes to security on the one hand, but for performance and compatibility.

First improvement in long, native support of the open source OpenDocument format in Excel Format (. Ods), PowerPoint (. ODP) and Word (. Odt). In the same spirit, the PDF and XPS are also borne of origin. The inclusion of plug-ins. A turning point for Microsoft is to open direct competitors, such as Acrobat and OpenOffice.org.

Outlook has also benefited from a series of improvements. According to Microsoft, SP2 would provide 26% extra speed at the start and closure and for common tasks.

Available by download or via Windows Update soon, SP2 weighs 304 MB