At my home office, a user's computer began making odd noises which turned
out to be the hard disk in the throes of death. Our tech consultant managed
to salvage quite a bit, but they can't find his pst files from Outlook (not
OE). They're not in the usual place, and it's suspected they might be on the
office server. I don't know what they've done so far to check this theory,
but never mind that.

A couple of years ago, I relocated my OE message store to c:\oe\messages,
which makes it much easier for me to find the files and do backups. Less
cryptic path than the default. Pondering the other user's predicament, I
wondered what would happen if I needed to find my message store, but I
couldn't use Tools, Options, Maintenance for some reason. Obviously, I could
search the disk for all occurrences of inbox.dbx, and one of the search
results would be correct. But, I wondered about searching the registry. I
tried that, using the exact path to my message store folder, and got no
results at all.

Why? Where does OE store that config info, if not in the registry?