recovering mail account settings

Does anyone know how to recover email settings in Outlook
Express when having to reload a system due to a problem
with the OS. I can recover messages, and I can recover
the address book, but have not figured out any way to
recover mail account settings. Maybe I just don't know
where to look but I usually have to manually add the mail
account settings. Any help or information that can be
provided would be appreciated. And no, I am not
reloading my own system constantly, I am helping others
with problems.

No, not unless you can access the registry in some way as that is where they
are stored.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft | Internet Accounts Manager
for the original Main Identity
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{USER_ID}\Software\Mi crosoft\Internet Accounts
Manager
for Identities created after OE was started the first time.


What would be best to do is export the accounts to an .AIF file, copy them
elsewhere and when needed, you can import them back into OE via Tools
|Accounts | Import


"Ray" wrote in message
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Does anyone know how to recover email settings in Outlook
Express when having to reload a system due to a problem
with the OS. I can recover messages, and I can recover
the address book, but have not figured out any way to
recover mail account settings. Maybe I just don't know
where to look but I usually have to manually add the mail
account settings. Any help or information that can be
provided would be appreciated. And no, I am not
reloading my own system constantly, I am helping others
with problems.