Microsoft outlook is a powerful desktop client application for send and receive mails. It is pretty easy to use and configure. Also it provides lot more features like calendar, tasks, follow up, reminders etc…
Here I would like to share a simple tweak to copy outlook settings which you can use to configure the outlook in new system. When you reconfigure outlook manually there will not have much hassle if you have only single email address. Consider you have “N” number of email address and that need to be reconfigured in new system, the manual configuration will not be easy as like it is. So before format or uninstall outlook, just copy the outlook settings from the registry and import it on new system. For sure this will make the transition process much faster than manual configuration. For this follow the below steps
1. Move the outlook data base (.pst) from the location
%user profile%AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\ outlook.pst to the new system. (PST file name and location will vary depend on your outlook configuration. Also keep in mind when you move the PST file, you need keep the same directory path on new system)
2. Open registry and navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem Export Profile settings to the desktop
3. Move the exported .reg file to the new system desktop and run the file to import the settings to the registry
4. Open outlook in new computer and do a send and receive. In first time you will be prompted to enter the password of email addresses and you just need to add the password and save it.
5. You are done and your outlook have configured with all the old settings on other computer.
Note: it copies only your emails and outlook configuration settings. For contacts and other features like auto fill, you need to take a back up manually.