thread605-1015746 is closed, so I am writing my answer here.
Indeed, you export using the registry path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook
Right click on the key named Outlook in the tree view at the left and select Export.
Give the file a name (I advise you put it on its own in a shared folder to guarantee you will be able to access it from anywhere. Could even be a flash memory.)
Now, in the new account or PC, you do the opposite.
You go to the path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles and click the File menu and select Import.
BUT!!!!!
If you are doing this between user accounts with limited rights in XP, when you open Outlook from the destination account, you will be prompted that you don't have access to the Outlook destination file (path copied from the other account.) So the new account need to have administrator rights (at least temporarily) that you can open outlook and change the destination file using:
Tools > Options > Data Files
where you select the account and click settings to change the path to the new place (similar path but replace the old account name by the new one in the path), and Bob's your uncle.
This might not be the only way, probably not even the best way, but that far I reached, and I hope it helps those who had the same struggle like I had.
Hey Microsoft (if anyone of you is reading this), it is a shame how such a need did not occur to the development management to include as a requirement. This export should not be such a pain.
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Eman6
Technical User
Indeed, you export using the registry path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook
Right click on the key named Outlook in the tree view at the left and select Export.
Give the file a name (I advise you put it on its own in a shared folder to guarantee you will be able to access it from anywhere. Could even be a flash memory.)
Now, in the new account or PC, you do the opposite.
You go to the path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles and click the File menu and select Import.
BUT!!!!!
If you are doing this between user accounts with limited rights in XP, when you open Outlook from the destination account, you will be prompted that you don't have access to the Outlook destination file (path copied from the other account.) So the new account need to have administrator rights (at least temporarily) that you can open outlook and change the destination file using:
Tools > Options > Data Files
where you select the account and click settings to change the path to the new place (similar path but replace the old account name by the new one in the path), and Bob's your uncle.
This might not be the only way, probably not even the best way, but that far I reached, and I hope it helps those who had the same struggle like I had.
Hey Microsoft (if anyone of you is reading this), it is a shame how such a need did not occur to the development management to include as a requirement. This export should not be such a pain.
______________________________________
Eman6
Technical User