200Chapter 12: Moving from Your Old Computerwww.gateway.comTransferring your e-mail and address bookSee your old e-mail program’s online help for information on exporting andimporting e-mail messages and the address book. You can often export all ofyour 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’se-mail program. You may also want to consider printing the old informationor using your old computer to send the e-mail messages to yourself, then usingyour new computer to retrieve the e-mail messages.Transferring your Internet shortcutsYou can export and import your old Netscape Navigator bookmarks orMicrosoft Internet Explorer favorites. For more information, see your Internetbrowser program’s online help.Installing your old printer orscannerWindows may have built-in support for older printers, scanners, or otherperipheral devices. This means you do not need any additional software. Newerdevices, however, usually require your original software installation CDs ordiskettes.If you have trouble after you install the software for your old devices, you canuse System Restore to restore your computer’s previous settings.Help andSupportFor information about restoring your computer’s previoussettings in Windows XP, click Start, then click Help andSupport.Type the keyword System Restore in the HelpSpotSearch box , then click the arrow.
