Backup Your Email Account Settings in Outlook Express

Do you have to manually set email account settings every time you format or get a new computer?
Today I'm going to tell you how to save your email account settings to find your settings if something goes wrong.


Export your Email Account Settings from Outlook Express:

1. Open Outlook Express
2. Go to Tools menu & click Accounts.
3. Then on the Mail tab, choose the mail account (that you want to export).
4. Then click Export from the right side menu
5. In the Save In box, the file name will be filled in for you. (It usually gets saved to My Documents.)
6. Then click Save
7. Copy this file to your backup disk


Import your email account settings into Outlook :

1. Insert your backup disk
2. Open Outlook Express
3. On the Tools menu, click Accounts
4. Choose the Mail tab
5. Then click on Import and locate the file (on your backup disc)
6. Click on your file. That's it. Now you can check your email.

Note
*You can import your email account settings into Windows Mail also

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