Confusing problem - Outlook

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Ryan C.

Hello,

I have a really odd problem with Outlook and XP in general. I was having
some permission problems with adding a network printer and in an effort to
fix it I got click happy with my mouse and deleted some users or domains or
something like that. Well I couldn't remember my password to log back onto
windows so I found a hole in windows by searching online. I went to repair
the installation of windows and hit SHIFT+F10 in the middle of the install,
doing this allowed me to reset my password.

Well when I did this and logged back onto Windows like I always had, my
computer was reverted back to some time in 2003 - all of my desktop settings,
all of my outlook settings, even windows itself was reverted back to SP1.

So here is the problem - I have literally thousands of emails in Outlook
that I need to keep for business reasons - I can't retrieve them now as
everything in Outlook reverted back to 2003, including the stored email
address and all of the pop, smtp, etc information.

When I go to my computer, C:, documents and settings, all of the old users
show up as folders (like normal) but I can't access anything - most
importantly I can't access any of my Outlook info.

HELP!

Thanks so much!
 
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DL

In Win Help see how to 'take ownership' then copy any pst files found to
your documents folder.
Then after youve run MS Update & its done its thing, within outlook,
File>Open>Data File......browse to the pst in the location you saved it.
You then have a number of options.
PS You need to keep data for business & yet you appear to have no backup
regime? - quick way to go out of business :(
 
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