There is a problem with Windows 7 that means having to go in to the regedit to fix & I am nervous to play around with that. Despite all my USB ports working and device manager recognising my external hard drive, the drive doesn't get allocated a drive letter, so I can't back up to it.

I also want to switch from Outlook to Zimbra as I am sick of Outlook crashing and the calendar not syncing to my iPhone.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:54, 8 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Outlook is shit
HTH
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:56, Reply)

I like outlook
it's much better than gmail or hotmail and their ilk
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:58, Reply)

You see, you've gone and confused two totally different things there.
One is an email client, and the other is an email provider. Not the same.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:08, Reply)

this means nothing to me
they give me email, therefore are comparable
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:23, Reply)

I like it when he comes back and kills scar

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:56, Reply)

If you can set a system restore point, you can fuck around with regedit as much as you like and just go back if you make a mistake.
Not sure about the HDD, except updating the drivers for it.
Installing Zimbra, should be simpleish.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:56, Reply)

All the drivers are up to date and I have tried all the other options suggested in various help forums.
Have installed Zimbra, it's just a pain to connect hotmail to it; not sure hotmail supports IMAP and using POP would be a pain in the arse.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:58, Reply)

Hotmail is for benders and teenage girls
hthxx
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:59, Reply)

I've had the same email address for over a decade; would be a pain to change it now.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:01, Reply)

Not really, you can have everything in your hotmail accoutn forwarded to a gmail address.
And gmail is a lot easier to sync to desktop clients.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:09, Reply)

Gmail actualy does all the work, you only have to add your hotmail address and password, then accept the request in your hotmail account
and all your mail is transferred to the gmail inbox. You can even leave it so it looks like anything you send from gmail comes from your hotmail account instead.

If you like everyone thinking your a bender or a teenage girl.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:10, Reply)

I also have my own website, do you think it would be easy for me to use that domain?
so [email protected] ?

Do you think I could use gmail with that address?
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:12, Reply)

Yes.
Gmail loves allowing people to route all their personal domain stuff through it.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:13, Reply)

Are you serious or taking the piss?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:17, Reply)

Oh you can fuck off if you're going to be like that.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:18, Reply)

I'm not being like anything. Genuine question (and thank you for your answers above). I can route stuff through gmail like that?
I am extremely inept with this sort of thing.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:20, Reply)

You should be able to route pretty much anything through gmail.
Hotmail is very easy to do, using your own domain may be a bit tricker, but I'm pretty sure google will be able to explain how to do it.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:24, Reply)

Great. Thank you very much.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:27, Reply)

Microsoft site suggests easier fix
open command prompt
type in diskpart
automount enable
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:58, Reply)

or that.

( Kroney, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:59, Reply)

Take a screenshot of regedit before you make the changes.
Then you know what to set it back to if it fails. Or save a copy of the line to a text file, then you can just copy/paste it.
( Kroney, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:58, Reply)

Just do a regedit dump
You can export the entire thing to a text file, then redo it if it fucks up.

As for allocating a drive letter, right click on 'Computer', go to 'Manage', then the options you need are under 'Disk Management'
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 9:59, Reply)

Tried the disk management stuff - it won't let me initialise the drive.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:01, Reply)

That doesn't sound good at all, I applaud your appealing to someone else to do it.
What does it show up as in Disk Management?

Does it mention the file system?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:04, Reply)

Can't remember & can't face connecting it all again now.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:09, Reply)

Alright, just thinking that if it doesn't recognise the file system, that could be a reason for it to not allocate a letter

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:35, Reply)

Your iphone shouldn't be syncing with your outlook directly, not in 2013.
You must have some kind of Exchange type thinggy, everything should invidualy hook into that.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:02, Reply)

Gonz, I am a simple person.
All i want is my email & calendar & contacts to be automatically shared between my laptop, iphone & ipad.

Surely this must be possible?
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:04, Reply)

Yeah', that's exactly how it should work.
Do you know what services you're on? eg, Exchange / Google / Hotmail / etc ?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:04, Reply)

Bear in mind this is all my own kit, not owned by a large company or anything, so I don't have servers etc.
I have windows 7 Ultimate 64, running Outlook 2010, with two separate hotmail email accounts connected to it.

I have one of those hotmail email accounts connected to my ipad & iphone. All fine.

The problem is the calendar mainly - I want one calendar that syncs automatically across all 3 devices.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:07, Reply)

I don't think you can simultaneously sync a hotmail calendar and an outlook one to Apple things
it needs one default calendar.

I've not tried very hard though. Also, don't use hotmail.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:09, Reply)

Cool, it's not far off the setup I have for my personal stuff.
ipad/iphone: That should sync Mail, Contacts, Calendars and Reminders via a standard 'Hotmail' style account. When you update on one, it should update on the other.... make it "Mail days to sync" as long as you can. I think it's "push" style, so at most it shouldn't take a minute to update the other one. Also the "Pull down to refresh" thing should force it to get the latest version.

Outlook 2010 for Windows: It's something I've not used in yonks'n'yonks, but apparnetly this should sort your out: office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook-help/use-a-windows-live-hotmail-account-in-outlook-HA010354935.aspx

Also, rather than use outlook as an app, have you tried www.outlook.com ? The interface is far slicker, nicer to use, and it'll be setup properly.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:15, Reply)

I've had a look at outlook.com
Didn't like it.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:21, Reply)

For example, I use Gmail....
And my phone is hooked into gmail, my ipad is hooked into gmail, my computers are all each hooked into gmail.... when one updates, all the rest do. They're all independant entities of each other.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:04, Reply)

All this advice is stopping someone getting £50

(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:04, Reply)

I've already got fifty quid.

( Kroney, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:05, Reply)

:(((

(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:06, Reply)

I might just throw away £50 today
for shits and giggles.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:12, Reply)

I've just wiped my arse with a £50 note.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:13, Reply)

You are Liam Ridgewell AICMSSFP

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 11 Feb 2013, 10:39, Reply)