Windows 10 not shutting down? Disable fast startup - here's how

Despite the myriad slew of suggestions tweaking power settings, even delving into the BIOS - simply disable Fast startup - it's worked for me 6 of 6 times!

Job done

How to get your email addresses out of your nk2 file and into a newer version of Outlook

Scenario
An older version of Outlook where te user has an extensive list of frequently used email addresses built up over the years. The user has not managed these by putting them in the address book - as they should have been doing. (IF they had, these would be easy to export and re-import into the new program).

User really wants to just be able to start typing an email address and be prompted with the resulting list of familiar choices they are familiar with!


Title says it all really - my scenario was Outlook2007 to Outlook 2016.


Step 1
Use NIRSOFT's nk2 extractor (its safe) to export all the addresses.

If you try to import the exported csv into the new Outlook and are met with a grayed out box, I'm assuming its because your new destination email account is an IMAP account, and so cannot does not have a contacts "container" like Outlook the app does...

So instead:
from within the app, select all the found addresses, copy and paste into excel.

Step 2
From excel reduce it down to just the email address column (there are way too many columns)

Step 3
Copy and paste this list into an Outlook email compose area
LET OUTLOOK RESOLVE (or force it to resolve with cntrl-k).
You may discard this email - so you don't need to spam your entire address book to do this :)

DONE - as these addresses are now in the new Outlook nickname file b ;)
(They are STILL not in the address book) - but who cares!?

It's a pleasure