[AccessD] OT: ^%$&^%(*&)(*&)%$&#$^%$@

John,
Outlook, unfortunately, has stuff scattered all over the place.

Sigs are in your %USERPROFILE% environmental variable is set to (on NT serie
OSs) or under the Windows\Appdata\ tree in W95 OSs.

You can, thankfully but "PITAfully" save most of the settings to text file
by exporting them. Once you've gone through all the bull you're going to go
through restoring this crud. you might want to export all these settings to
a safe place (like a network drive that is backed up). Rules can be exported
and you'll have an .rwz file. Sigs can be saved as text and accounts can be
saved as .iaf files.

Good luck!

JB


> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Colby
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 8:57 AM
> To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [AccessD] OT: ^%$&^%(*&)(*&)%$&#$^%$@
>
>
> Well, today my NTLDR wouldn't!  Or wasn't, depending on who you talked to!
>
> I never did get it back, but after 4 hours of trying I had succeeded in
> getting a floppy to boot (I had a weird boot config as well) and then
> succeeded in getting Office apps to run windows setup every time they
> loaded, trashed IE and so forth and so on.
>
> So... I went down, bought a new 120mb hard disk, and started over.  I did
> this of course so that I didn't overwrite anything (else) in the
> process of
> getting windows working again.  Installed Win2kSP.  Of course no network,
> video, sound and most critically drivers for the Promise100 IDE
> 3/4 where my
> old disks now reside.  More hours searching for CDs and floppies for those
> things, searching the internet (on my other computer - thank GOD for "the
> other computer").
>
> Of course I then spent several hours applying service packs, reloading O2K
> (only, so far), Norton utilities, NAV, and am still in the process of
> re-installing everything I can think of that I used to have.  The weird
> thing is that I have my outlook.pst, but that apparently doesn't have the
> personalized settings in it for things like rules, signature, etc.
>
> Anyway, still loading stuff!
>
> WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT
> A PITA!WHAT
> A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A
> PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!WHAT A PITA!
>
> My question to you kind folks, where the (*&%)%$#!@ are rules /
> sig and the
> like kept for Outlook?
>
> It seems like you would just copy the entire jcolby user and be back with
> all that kind of stuff.  The problem of course is that there is stuff in
> there for programs that don't exist (at least in the same place) etc.
>
> Sigh!
>
> John W. Colby
>
>
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