I am on XPsp2 and Outlook 2007, and have two profiles with a total of 11
email accounts. Two of these are for non-profit organizations I help out.

I am caught in a situation where I need to "clean house" on this computer,
and for the life of me don't remember the passwords to at least half of the
accounts. In addition, some have fairly odd advanced settings, such as the
AOL and Yahoo accounts. I was trying to avoid manually copying down the
settings for each account on each profile, but the more research I do, the
more I am seeing that prior to doing any major system overhaul, I am going to
be forced to copy down all those settings and try to retrieve the passwords.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

I have just found a program online that can, supposedly, recover lost Outlook
passwords. I downloaded it and the trial (free) version gave me the first
two letters of every password for every account on both profiles. I'm
impressed - that should be enough to jog my memory.

It saves them in a *.csv file along with the email address. Normally,
security would be an issue for me, but I will be doing a factory restore on
this 3 year old computer, and I can easily change the passwords on those
accounts after I restore everything.

I still don't like the fact that Microsoft doesn't seem to offer an easy way
to save and restore email account settings. There is no logical reason to
have removed that feature from the previous version that I can see, unless
they were worried about unauthorized users accessing someone's computer and
using that feature to steal their information. Regardless, it would be nice
to at least have a copy of the profiles and account settings, even without
the passwords, in some nice little file location with a name - something that
could be found and copied.

I'm still looking for feedback if anyone knows any techniques.

"Kasey156" wrote:

I am on XPsp2 and Outlook 2007, and have two profiles with a total of 11
email accounts. Two of these are for non-profit organizations I help out.

I am caught in a situation where I need to "clean house" on this computer,
and for the life of me don't remember the passwords to at least half of the
accounts. In addition, some have fairly odd advanced settings, such as the
AOL and Yahoo accounts. I was trying to avoid manually copying down the
settings for each account on each profile, but the more research I do, the
more I am seeing that prior to doing any major system overhaul, I am going to
be forced to copy down all those settings and try to retrieve the passwords.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

In the past one could export the account settings to OE, then in OE export
them to a file.
Reversing the process to recover the settings to OL
I dont know if that still works in OL2007 or even Windows Mail

"Kasey156" wrote in message
...
I have just found a program online that can, supposedly, recover lost
Outlook
passwords. I downloaded it and the trial (free) version gave me the first
two letters of every password for every account on both profiles. I'm
impressed - that should be enough to jog my memory.

It saves them in a *.csv file along with the email address. Normally,
security would be an issue for me, but I will be doing a factory restore
on
this 3 year old computer, and I can easily change the passwords on those
accounts after I restore everything.

I still don't like the fact that Microsoft doesn't seem to offer an easy
way
to save and restore email account settings. There is no logical reason to
have removed that feature from the previous version that I can see, unless
they were worried about unauthorized users accessing someone's computer
and
using that feature to steal their information. Regardless, it would be
nice
to at least have a copy of the profiles and account settings, even without
the passwords, in some nice little file location with a name - something
that
could be found and copied.

I'm still looking for feedback if anyone knows any techniques.

"Kasey156" wrote:

I am on XPsp2 and Outlook 2007, and have two profiles with a total of 11
email accounts. Two of these are for non-profit organizations I help
out.

I am caught in a situation where I need to "clean house" on this
computer,
and for the life of me don't remember the passwords to at least half of
the
accounts. In addition, some have fairly odd advanced settings, such as
the
AOL and Yahoo accounts. I was trying to avoid manually copying down the
settings for each account on each profile, but the more research I do,
the
more I am seeing that prior to doing any major system overhaul, I am
going to
be forced to copy down all those settings and try to retrieve the
passwords.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

"Kasey156" wrote in message
...

Regardless, it would be nice
to at least have a copy of the profiles and account settings, even without
the passwords, in some nice little file location with a name - something
that
could be found and copied.

Export the mail profiles from the registry. They're in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WIndows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

DL - 2007 version doesn't offer the export of anything but *.pst information
that I can find - i.e., contacts, etc. - but thank you for your input.

Brian Tillman - thank you for the registry key. Is there a knowledge base
article anywhere that describes this? If not, there darn well should be! I
will try this and pray that it works - update to follow factory restore.
BTW, I am noob enough that "pray that it works" is really an accurate phrase
- I've never tried to copy specific entries back into a registry.

I have other registry issues too - DRM music, games, etc. which does not
apply to this forum. Input on these issues accepted at .

"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

"Kasey156" wrote in message
...

Regardless, it would be nice
to at least have a copy of the profiles and account settings, even without
the passwords, in some nice little file location with a name - something
that
could be found and copied.

Export the mail profiles from the registry. They're in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WIndows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

You Import the accounts in OE

"Kasey156" wrote in message
...
DL - 2007 version doesn't offer the export of anything but *.pst
information
that I can find - i.e., contacts, etc. - but thank you for your input.

Brian Tillman - thank you for the registry key. Is there a knowledge base
article anywhere that describes this? If not, there darn well should be!
I
will try this and pray that it works - update to follow factory restore.
BTW, I am noob enough that "pray that it works" is really an accurate
phrase
- I've never tried to copy specific entries back into a registry.

I have other registry issues too - DRM music, games, etc. which does not
apply to this forum. Input on these issues accepted at
.

"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

"Kasey156" wrote in message
...

Regardless, it would be nice
to at least have a copy of the profiles and account settings, even
without
the passwords, in some nice little file location with a name -
something
that
could be found and copied.

Export the mail profiles from the registry. They're in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WIndows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Kasey156, you wrote on Thu, 2 Oct 2008 07:07:01 -0700:

Brian Tillman - thank you for the registry key. Is there a knowledge base
article anywhere that describes this?

As far as I know there is no such knowledge base article. What do you
want to know about this registry key?

--
Best Regards
Christian Goeller

MVP - MS Outlook
http://www.outlookfaq.net

I only want to know WHY Microsoft does not have any knowledge base articles
on exporting or backing up such vital information. (in email account
settings and the registry key)

I guess it would also be helpful to have specific instructions on how to put
the single registration entries back where they belong after resetting your
computer to factory settings, since that's what I'll be doing once I collect
all my information and instructions and get the data backed up. But I'm sure
I can fumble through it somehow. It just seems like if MS had these specific
instructions in their knowledge base, noobies like myself could perform these
functions without harrassing forumites.


"Christian Goeller" wrote:

Kasey156, you wrote on Thu, 2 Oct 2008 07:07:01 -0700:

Brian Tillman - thank you for the registry key. Is there a knowledge base
article anywhere that describes this?

As far as I know there is no such knowledge base article. What do you
want to know about this registry key?

--
Best Regards
Christian Goeller

MVP - MS Outlook
http://www.outlookfaq.net

Kasey156, you wrote on Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:33:02 -0700:

I have just found a program online that can, supposedly, recover lost Outlook
passwords. I downloaded it and the trial (free) version gave me the first
two letters of every password for every account on both profiles.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mailpv.html shows you the complete password
and is free of charge.


--
Best Regards
Christian Goeller

MVP - MS Outlook
http://www.outlookfaq.net

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mailpv.html shows you the complete password
and is free of charge.

A password recovery tool for pst-passwords is also avaiable for free:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/pst_password.html


--
Best Regards
Christian Goeller

MVP - MS Outlook
http://www.outlookfaq.net