Transfer Outlook Email Account Data

Picked up a new 500 gig SATA drive a couple of days ago and did the mandatory Windows XP reinstall. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that there is no way to copy all my email accounts over to the new installation.

Turns out that you can do it relatively easily if you know where to look. All you need to do is export this registry key from the old Windows Install:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook

Load it in your new installation and voila! All your settings are imported to the new copy of Outlook. Way to go Microsoft, yet another baffling user experience.

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One Comment

  1. Jubz

    December 19th, 2007 at 8:38 am

    Helped a lot. Also remember to remove hardcoded paths in the registry entries, and mention that passwords are not exported.

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