outlook express

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Newbie Coder

Address Book:

All you need to do is choose Export from the File menu then choose Address
Book, choose the Comma Seperated Values, click the Export button, click
Browse to a location to save the backup & give it a meaningful name. Click
Next, tick all columns & click Finish. Click OK on the exported successfully
message box & click Close on the other.

For messages:

On The Maintainance tab of Tools, Options you have a Store Root button. This
is the location of the DBX files

Go to that location, typically 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{User
String Here}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

Copy the DBX files to where you want to back them upto

Message Rules:

Click START, RUN, type regedit & click OK

Navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{Same User String
Here}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Rules\Mail

And now export the entire key using the registry menu, export option, type a
same in the Save File Dialog box then click the Save button.

I hope this helps
 
P

PA Bear

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph)

About OE Files & Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/files/index.htm

About OE Registry Keys
http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm

--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
 

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