How to clone backup style of all Outlook 2K settings to one folder

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All my data resides on drive D: while bootable drive is C:.
Also, ALL the settings for Outlook Express (for example) are relocated or
cloned to one folder on drive D:. Thus: 1. If I need to reinstall from fresh
a drive C:, all I need to reconfigure OE (for example) is to redirect it to
that folder in drive D:.
2. To backup all those settings and newsgroup messages, all I need is to
copy that single folder to my backup drive E:.

Where can I read about ALL registry keys/data and anything else I might need
to modify in order to accomplish the above for Outlook? By ALL settings I
also mean per individual users and global settings.
I use Outlook 2000 + SP3 on W2K+SP4.

Thanks,
David
 
I own True Image 10.
While asking to backup ONLY Outlook's "User Settings"
(I don't need the emails themselves because I already have a much better
solution for that), it was unbeliveable and unacceptable slow. It is a job
that should take no time. So it turns out not to be "...simpler..." at all.

BTW
The main reason I have Acronis is for drive imaging & cloning which I
haven't tried it yet. I hope for these main purposes it will play much better
otherewise it will go out the "window" (with and without quotes... :) ).
In recent years, I have very little tolerance to SW products that have major
bugs, including performance. I don't even bother to call (let alone write
emails) to "support". Since I am a hands on user, if the product(s) is
unacceptable, I toss it away and solve the problem myself.

My yardstick for these jobs is Symantec's Ghost (especially their last
version which was 2003) which is superb but they cancelled that product line
and switched to Norton Ghost 9 & 10 which is not really for disk imaging &
cloning.

David
 
David F said:
Where can I read about ALL registry keys/data and anything else I
might need to modify in order to accomplish the above for Outlook? By
ALL settings I also mean per individual users and global settings.
I use Outlook 2000 + SP3 on W2K+SP4.
Click to expand...

Many of Outlook's settings are in the registry, so there is no file you can
copy that contains them. However, this is a good list of the files that you
can back up:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
 
David F said:
Where can I read about ALL registry keys/data and anything else I
might need to modify in order to accomplish the above for Outlook? By
ALL settings I also mean per individual users and global settings.
I use Outlook 2000 + SP3 on W2K+SP4.
Click to expand...

Oh, and keep in mind that just putting Outlook's files back in the folders
where they originated won't restore Outlook to its previous state.

As to the registry keys, The HLCU and HKLM \Software\Microsoft\Office trees
are good places to start, along with HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Profiles
 
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