How to save & move Outlook settings, etc.?

I haven't tried this yet, I only just downloaded the resource kit tools, but it looks promising. Create an Outlook Profile file (*.PRF)

Back Up or Copy Your Outlook Mail, Contacts and Other Data

To create a copy of your mail, contacts, calendar and other data in Outlook for backup or copying:

• ›› Step by Step Screenshot Walkthrough

• Go to your Outlook folder in Windows Explorer.
• Highlight all files ending in ".pst".
  
  • Make sure in particular your selection includes "outlook.pst" and "archive.pst".
  • If you have Windows Explorer configured not to show file extensions for known formats, look for Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders files.
  
  
• Select Edit | Copy from the menu to copy the selected files.
• Open the folder where you want to put your backup copies in Windows Explorer.
  
  • Ideally, this will be on another computer, on a removable disk stored far away from your home, somewhere on the Internet, or at least on a different hard disk.
  
  
• Select Edit | Paste from the menu to paste your .pst files to the backup location

Restore from Your Outlook Backup

Your backup copy of Outlook data is now in place, ready to be restored when you need it.

Restore Outlook Mail, Contacts and Other Data from a Backup

To restore your mail, contacts and other data from a backup copy of an Outlook PST file:

• Select File | Import and Export... from the menu in Outlook.
• Select Import from another program or file.
• Click Next.
• Highlight Personal Folder File (PST).
• Click Next again.
• Now use the Browse button to select the backup copy of the PST file you want to recover from your backup location.
• Make sure Replace duplicates with items imported is selected.
• Click Next.
• Finish the import process with Finish.

Usually, the default import settings work fine, but you may want to tweak them to suit your needs.

juanantoniod said:

alphanumeric said:

I haven't tried this yet, I only just downloaded the resource kit tools, but it looks promising. Create an Outlook Profile file (*.PRF)

This does look promising. I will have to give it a try and report back. It's on my Prioritized Daily Task list...

It's near the top of my to do list too, I'm going to be doing a clean install in a week or two and it will be a good test to see if it works. I probably won't get to it for a couple of days though maybe even not till early next week. My backs been acting up and things tend to be put on the back burner when that happens. There are times where I would like to get my hands on one or two of the guys at Microsoft that worked on Office. I use a lot of rules to sort my e-mail into folders. every rule i create has "on this machine only" automatically added to it. If I leave it in the rule does not work. I guess it's because I'm on pop3 e-mail. Anyway I have to edit it out of every rule I create. And another thing that peeves me is when I import my rules back into a clean install of Outlook I get a popup telling me some options aren't set when I try to click OK and save them. They are and everything looks OK. But once i save them every one has "select folder" where the actual folder name was. Then I have to go in and edit every one of them. The folders where there too because I had imported my PST file first.