Hello,

I have a really odd problem with Outlook and XP in general. I was having
some permission problems with adding a network printer and in an effort to
fix it I got click happy with my mouse and deleted some users or domains or
something like that. Well I couldn't remember my password to log back onto
windows so I found a hole in windows by searching online. I went to repair
the installation of windows and hit SHIFT+F10 in the middle of the install,
doing this allowed me to reset my password.

Well when I did this and logged back onto Windows like I always had, my
computer was reverted back to some time in 2003 - all of my desktop settings,
all of my outlook settings, even windows itself was reverted back to SP1.

So here is the problem - I have literally thousands of emails in Outlook
that I need to keep for business reasons - I can't retrieve them now as
everything in Outlook reverted back to 2003, including the stored email
address and all of the pop, smtp, etc information.

When I go to my computer, C:, documents and settings, all of the old users
show up as folders (like normal) but I can't access anything - most
importantly I can't access any of my Outlook info.

HELP!

Thanks so much!

In Win Help see how to 'take ownership' then copy any pst files found to
your documents folder.
Then after youve run MS Update & its done its thing, within outlook,
File>Open>Data File......browse to the pst in the location you saved it.
You then have a number of options.
PS You need to keep data for business & yet you appear to have no backup
regime? - quick way to go out of business

"Ryan C." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have a really odd problem with Outlook and XP in general. I was having
> some permission problems with adding a network printer and in an effort to
> fix it I got click happy with my mouse and deleted some users or domains
> or
> something like that. Well I couldn't remember my password to log back
> onto
> windows so I found a hole in windows by searching online. I went to
> repair
> the installation of windows and hit SHIFT+F10 in the middle of the
> install,
> doing this allowed me to reset my password.
>
> Well when I did this and logged back onto Windows like I always had, my
> computer was reverted back to some time in 2003 - all of my desktop
> settings,
> all of my outlook settings, even windows itself was reverted back to SP1.
>
> So here is the problem - I have literally thousands of emails in Outlook
> that I need to keep for business reasons - I can't retrieve them now as
> everything in Outlook reverted back to 2003, including the stored email
> address and all of the pop, smtp, etc information.
>
> When I go to my computer, C:, documents and settings, all of the old users
> show up as folders (like normal) but I can't access anything - most
> importantly I can't access any of my Outlook info.
>
> HELP!
>
> Thanks so much!