These steps will help with extracting the outlook mail profile settings from the registry, I have now used this a couple of times when rebuilding windows PC that have crashed or suffered from the dreaded BSOD
you will need do to the following:
1. copy the ntuser.dat from the document and settings\
(FYI: NTUser.dat gets loaded at logon and becomes HKEY_CURRENT_USER in regedit.)
2. Open regedit then highlight and expand the HKEY_USER key.
3. Select from the menu File>Load Hive. In the window that opens, navigate to the location of the NTUSER.dat, this is located in ?:\Document and Settings\Username folder on the drive you have slaved in (where ? = whatever the drive letter is for your old HDD and UserName is the user you want to import settings from)
4. Click on NTUser.dat and click OK, It will now ask for a name. I usually name it the same as the username but it really doesn’t matter.
(The name you provide should now be showing as a sub key under HKEY_USERS).
5. Now you can drill down to HKEY_USERS\NAME_YOU_PROVIDED\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook
6. Right click this key and choose Export as .REG file.
7. Now highlight NAME_YOU_PROVIDED in HKEY_USERS and select File>UnLoad Hive.
8. Now open the saved reg file and replace all instances of “HKEY_USERS\NAME_YOU_PROVIDED” with “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Target_User_Name” save and close the reg file.
9. Log in with Target_User_Name’s account Open regedit highlight HKEY_CURRENT_USER and export it to a reg file. (This is to backup your current settings incase something goes wrong.
10. After your back up is saved right click the reg file you saved previously and select Merge from the context menu. Click ‘OK’ to merge and you should get a message box stating sucessfully merged into registry.
just note that you will need the password re-enter the passwords to access the email accounts, the profile does not save passwords.
kudos to experts exchange for these steps!
