Effect of Domain change on Outlook
 

My PC was a stand alone PC that previously belonged to a domain (that was no
more in use). I had Outlook running on it that could get my e-mails from
several web e-mail services using POP3 (no Exchange). I had a few thousand
e-mails in this outlook. For some reason I removed my PC from the Domain and
join a workgroup.
Now when I launch my Outlook, it wants to start from scratch.
Can my previous e-mail accounts, rules, contacts, and vital e-mails be
re-stored?
Thank you in advance,
Ben

Effect of Domain change on Outlook
 

If you were using a .pst file for your mail storage, it may have a different name than outlook.pst - search for any .pst file that you can find (search hidden folders as well). Once the .pst(s) are found, open Outlook and use File-Open-Outlook Data File. Open your old .pst and you should be up and running again.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Ben asked:

| My PC was a stand alone PC that previously belonged to a domain (that
| was no more in use). I had Outlook running on it that could get my
| e-mails from several web e-mail services using POP3 (no Exchange). I
| had a few thousand e-mails in this outlook. For some reason I removed
| my PC from the Domain and join a workgroup.
| Now when I launch my Outlook, it wants to start from scratch.
| Can my previous e-mail accounts, rules, contacts, and vital e-mails be
| re-stored?
| Thank you in advance,
| Ben

Effect of Domain change on Outlook
 

Hi Milly,
Thank you for your great help.
Anyway I can get my Contacts, e-mail account settings, and rules back.

Tks & Merry Christmas
Ben



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
...
If you were using a .pst file for your mail storage, it may have a different
name than outlook.pst - search for any .pst file that you can find (search
hidden folders as well). Once the .pst(s) are found, open Outlook and use
File-Open-Outlook Data File. Open your old .pst and you should be up and
running again.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After furious head scratching, Ben asked:

| My PC was a stand alone PC that previously belonged to a domain (that
| was no more in use). I had Outlook running on it that could get my
| e-mails from several web e-mail services using POP3 (no Exchange). I
| had a few thousand e-mails in this outlook. For some reason I removed
| my PC from the Domain and join a workgroup.
| Now when I launch my Outlook, it wants to start from scratch.
| Can my previous e-mail accounts, rules, contacts, and vital e-mails be
| re-stored?
| Thank you in advance,
| Ben

Effect of Domain change on Outlook
 

Sorry for the confusion.
I see that I have my contacts and calendar, but I have not been able to
locate my rules and e-mail account settings.
Are they lost?

Thanks again.
Ben

"Ben" wrote in message
...
Hi Milly,
Thank you for your great help.
Anyway I can get my Contacts, e-mail account settings, and rules back.

Tks & Merry Christmas
Ben



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
...
If you were using a .pst file for your mail storage, it may have a
different name than outlook.pst - search for any .pst file that you can
find (search hidden folders as well). Once the .pst(s) are found, open
Outlook and use File-Open-Outlook Data File. Open your old .pst and you
should be up and running again.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After furious head scratching, Ben asked:

| My PC was a stand alone PC that previously belonged to a domain (that
| was no more in use). I had Outlook running on it that could get my
| e-mails from several web e-mail services using POP3 (no Exchange). I
| had a few thousand e-mails in this outlook. For some reason I removed
| my PC from the Domain and join a workgroup.
| Now when I launch my Outlook, it wants to start from scratch.
| Can my previous e-mail accounts, rules, contacts, and vital e-mails be
| re-stored?
| Thank you in advance,
| Ben

Effect of Domain change on Outlook
 

If an older version of Outlook, your rules are in a separate file with a ..rwz extension. Your account settings are in the registry. What version of Outlook are you using (note - it always helps to post this information in the initial post - it cuts down on the guess work from folks trying to help)?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After furious head scratching, Ben asked:

| Sorry for the confusion.
| I see that I have my contacts and calendar, but I have not been able
| to locate my rules and e-mail account settings.
| Are they lost?
|
| Thanks again.
| Ben
|
| "Ben" wrote in message
| ...
|| Hi Milly,
|| Thank you for your great help.
|| Anyway I can get my Contacts, e-mail account settings, and rules
|| back.
||
|| Tks & Merry Christmas
|| Ben
||
||
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
|| ...
|| If you were using a .pst file for your mail storage, it may have a
|| different name than outlook.pst - search for any .pst file that you
|| can find (search hidden folders as well). Once the .pst(s) are
|| found, open Outlook and use File-Open-Outlook Data File. Open
|| your old .pst and you should be up and running again.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, Ben asked:
||
||| My PC was a stand alone PC that previously belonged to a domain
||| (that was no more in use). I had Outlook running on it that could
||| get my e-mails from several web e-mail services using POP3 (no
||| Exchange). I had a few thousand e-mails in this outlook. For some
||| reason I removed my PC from the Domain and join a workgroup.
||| Now when I launch my Outlook, it wants to start from scratch.
||| Can my previous e-mail accounts, rules, contacts, and vital e-mails
||| be re-stored?
||| Thank you in advance,
||| Ben

Effect of Domain change on Outlook
 

I am running Windows XP SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2.

Thanks
Ben


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
...
If an older version of Outlook, your rules are in a separate file with a
..rwz extension. Your account settings are in the registry. What version of
Outlook are you using (note - it always helps to post this information in
the initial post - it cuts down on the guess work from folks trying to
help)?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After furious head scratching, Ben asked:

| Sorry for the confusion.
| I see that I have my contacts and calendar, but I have not been able
| to locate my rules and e-mail account settings.
| Are they lost?
|
| Thanks again.
| Ben
|
| "Ben" wrote in message
| ...
|| Hi Milly,
|| Thank you for your great help.
|| Anyway I can get my Contacts, e-mail account settings, and rules
|| back.
||
|| Tks & Merry Christmas
|| Ben
||
||
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
|| ...
|| If you were using a .pst file for your mail storage, it may have a
|| different name than outlook.pst - search for any .pst file that you
|| can find (search hidden folders as well). Once the .pst(s) are
|| found, open Outlook and use File-Open-Outlook Data File. Open
|| your old .pst and you should be up and running again.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, Ben asked:
||
||| My PC was a stand alone PC that previously belonged to a domain
||| (that was no more in use). I had Outlook running on it that could
||| get my e-mails from several web e-mail services using POP3 (no
||| Exchange). I had a few thousand e-mails in this outlook. For some
||| reason I removed my PC from the Domain and join a workgroup.
||| Now when I launch my Outlook, it wants to start from scratch.
||| Can my previous e-mail accounts, rules, contacts, and vital e-mails
||| be re-stored?
||| Thank you in advance,
||| Ben

Effect of Domain change on Outlook
 

Your rules are in your .pst file in that case but your account settings are not saved with the .pst file - they are still in the registry.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Ben asked:

| I am running Windows XP SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2.
|
| Thanks
| Ben
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
| ...
| If an older version of Outlook, your rules are in a separate file
| with a .rwz extension. Your account settings are in the registry.
| What version of Outlook are you using (note - it always helps to post
| this information in the initial post - it cuts down on the guess work
| from folks trying to help)?
|
|
|| Sorry for the confusion.
|| I see that I have my contacts and calendar, but I have not been able
|| to locate my rules and e-mail account settings.
|| Are they lost?
||
|| Thanks again.
|| Ben
||
|| "Ben" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Hi Milly,
||| Thank you for your great help.
||| Anyway I can get my Contacts, e-mail account settings, and rules
||| back.
|||
||| Tks & Merry Christmas
||| Ben
|||
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
||| ...
||| If you were using a .pst file for your mail storage, it may have a
||| different name than outlook.pst - search for any .pst file that you
||| can find (search hidden folders as well). Once the .pst(s) are
||| found, open Outlook and use File-Open-Outlook Data File. Open
||| your old .pst and you should be up and running again.
|||
||| --
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|||
|||
||| After furious head scratching, Ben asked:
|||
|||| My PC was a stand alone PC that previously belonged to a domain
|||| (that was no more in use). I had Outlook running on it that could
|||| get my e-mails from several web e-mail services using POP3 (no
|||| Exchange). I had a few thousand e-mails in this outlook. For some
|||| reason I removed my PC from the Domain and join a workgroup.
|||| Now when I launch my Outlook, it wants to start from scratch.
|||| Can my previous e-mail accounts, rules, contacts, and vital e-mails
|||| be re-stored?
|||| Thank you in advance,
|||| Ben

Effect of Domain change on Outlook
 

Hi Milly,

I located the PST file and opened it. It gave me all my e-mails, contacts
and calendar, but the rules are not there.
In fact, under Tools I did not have the "Rules and Alerts.." at all. I
thought may be I should create one or more POP e-mails accounts first for
"Rules and Alerts" to show up.
I created one e-mail account and "Rules and Alerts" showed up, but it is
empty.
I tried Tools, Rules and Alerts, Options, Import Rules, it looks for *.rwz
file which I do not have.
Your help is highly appreciated.

Ben


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote in message
...
Your rules are in your .pst file in that case but your account settings are
not saved with the .pst file - they are still in the registry.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Ben asked:

| I am running Windows XP SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2.
|
| Thanks
| Ben
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
| ...
| If an older version of Outlook, your rules are in a separate file
| with a .rwz extension. Your account settings are in the registry.
| What version of Outlook are you using (note - it always helps to post
| this information in the initial post - it cuts down on the guess work
| from folks trying to help)?
|
|
|| Sorry for the confusion.
|| I see that I have my contacts and calendar, but I have not been able
|| to locate my rules and e-mail account settings.
|| Are they lost?
||
|| Thanks again.
|| Ben
||
|| "Ben" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Hi Milly,
||| Thank you for your great help.
||| Anyway I can get my Contacts, e-mail account settings, and rules
||| back.
|||
||| Tks & Merry Christmas
||| Ben
|||
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
||| ...
||| If you were using a .pst file for your mail storage, it may have a
||| different name than outlook.pst - search for any .pst file that you
||| can find (search hidden folders as well). Once the .pst(s) are
||| found, open Outlook and use File-Open-Outlook Data File. Open
||| your old .pst and you should be up and running again.
|||
||| --
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|||
|||
||| After furious head scratching, Ben asked:
|||
|||| My PC was a stand alone PC that previously belonged to a domain
|||| (that was no more in use). I had Outlook running on it that could
|||| get my e-mails from several web e-mail services using POP3 (no
|||| Exchange). I had a few thousand e-mails in this outlook. For some
|||| reason I removed my PC from the Domain and join a workgroup.
|||| Now when I launch my Outlook, it wants to start from scratch.
|||| Can my previous e-mail accounts, rules, contacts, and vital e-mails
|||| be re-stored?
|||| Thank you in advance,
|||| Ben