Windows Mail (Vista)
Microsft Windows Vista Windows Mail program stores your emails
in one location and sores your mail account settings in another
location and your contacts in another location. We will show
you how to back up each folder.
Windows Mail Emails
Backup
To backup your Windows Mail Emails:
- Go to:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft
or
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft
- and back up the Windows Mail folder.
Restore
To restore Windows Mail Emails, take the backup of the
Windows Mail folder that you made and copy it to
the location above.
Windows Mail Contacts
Backup
Windows Mail Contacts are stored at
%USERPROFILE%\Contacts. To backup contacts:
- Go to:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%
or
%USERPROFILE%
- and backup the Contacts folder.
Restore
To restore your Windows Mail contacts go to the location
above and paste in the Contacts folder.
Windows Mail Account Settings
Windows Vista stores the Windows Mail Account Settings
including server login, pop3, smtp, and port information
in files with an .oeaccount extenstion. They are stored in
a folder called Windows Mail in
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft. You already backed up
these settings if you backed up all your emails in the
Windows Mail folder by copying the Windows Mail folder to
your backup drive. However, Windows will not know how
to access these settings without having information inserted
into the windows registry. So you will want to back up
two keys in the Windows registry:
Backup
Open regedit by clicking on start and typing in regedit
into the "start search" box and press ENTER. Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail
then click File -> Export. Type a name like
windowsmail. It will be saved as windowsmail.reg. Save it in your
backup location.
While in regedit also navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail\IAM
then click File -> Export. Type a name like
iam. It will be saved as iam.reg. Save it in your
backup location.
Restore
To restore the windows mail account settings on a new PC or a freshly
installed Windows Vista find the two .reg files you created.
Double Click on the first one. And answer Yes to import it into
the registry. For example, double click on windowsmail.reg and answer
yes to insert it into the windows registry. Do the same for iam.reg.
Restart Windows and then access Windows Mail.
Note: You will still have to re-enter your mail account password to send
and receive mail.
