Retrieving Outlook Messages in Vista

[bonnieb]

I have recently purchased a computer with Vista and Office 2007 that did
not include Outlook. I first tried to use Windows Mail that came in Vista,
but because I use several computers with Windows XP on them, I could not open
the Windows Mail files in the XP computers. So...I installed Outlook 2003 on
my Vista machine and things were working pretty well.

However, now when I save the Outlook messages to a folder, they are saved as
..msg files and I cannot get them to open when I click on them. I saved them
in Outlook message format.

What do I need to do to be able to retrieve these Outlook messages or
messages that were saved in previous months?

bonnieb

 

[K. Orland]

Have you applied Office SP3 and use Google Desktop Search? The latest version
GDS is causing problems with Outlook opening .msg files.

 

[bonnieb]

I did the Service Pack 3 for Outlook 2003, but do not know anything about the
Google Desktop Search. Can I disable or delete that?

 

[K. Orland]

If you're running Google Desktop Search, uninstall it.

 

[bonnieb]

I uninstalled Outlook 2003 and reinstalled it, and the problems seems to be
corrected. We will see. At least I can open the saved Outlook messages in
various folders.