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| tom61:
Anybody know of an easy way to move Outlook Express rules to another computer? I've got a decent amount of rules set up to sort the incoming email for myself (mostly BYOAC stuff), my mom, and my brother, instead of lumping everything into the 'inbox' folder. |
| JLR2000:
Not that this is easy, but here's how I do it: Go in the Registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{1111YOUR UNIQUE NUMBER1111111}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Rules] Do an export of the key and save off the info. Now, go into that key in the target PC, find out that PCs {1111YOUR UNIQUE NUMBER1111111} and do a Search and Replace on your saved off rules.reg file. Now import it and you are set to go. Let me know if that makes sense....I've done it this way a few times with success.... Good Luck. |
| tom61:
Everything but "search and Replace on your saved off rules.reg file." made sense. Can you explain? |
| _Iz-:
you have to edit the regfile to match the new user identifier (the {1111YOUR UNIQUE NUMBER1111111} part). Easiest way to do this is search and replace. Then merge the edited reg file. Basically the user identifier will be different between the 2 PC's. You need to update the regfile with new identifier so it matches the new PC and gets merged into the correct profile. |
| JLR2000:
Exactly....if you merge the reg file with the {1111YOUR UNIQUE NUMBER1111111} from the source pc, it will merge into the target PC registry, but the target PCs Outlook won't know to use it, because the Target PC has it's own {1111YOUR UNIQUE NUMBER1111111}. So what Iz said, once you have the reg file on the target PC, look up in the registry to see the target PCs {1111YOUR UNIQUE NUMBER1111111}, and then in an editor you can change the {1111YOUR UNIQUE NUMBER1111111} from the Source PCs number to the Target PCs number. Hope that's clearer.....let me know. Feel free to email me with any other questions. |
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