Mail Rules For Oe...!

[willpantin]

Export this key into a .reg file to save all your mail rules

and import it anytime into any computer's OE6. It works for OE5 as well.

HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Identities\{A8D10AF5-32BF-4C2C-BA7B-9F6F38BBC865}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Rules\Mail

Details of procedure:

1. Export the key to your desktop.

2. Copy it to the new computer.

3. Then, open regedit and find the corresponding key to the one you want to replace.

4. Right click on that key and choose "copy key name", this will copy the

entire location of that key to your clipboard.

5. Now open up that key that you exported in notepad.

6. Paste what's in your clipboard on a blank line.

7. Notice the two sections of that location of the key that are different from the

ones that are in all of the key locations in the file you have open.

8. Replace them all using the replace command in notepad.

Example:

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HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-102393583-815913283-8925910673-500\Identities\{9268C185-9467-4FC2-7931-78A76EC8CD27}\Software\Microsoft\OutlookExpress\5.0\Rules\Mail

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-583902048-817710951-1060284252-500\Identities\{53B8158C-8888-5235-2583-09175818571875}\Software\Microsoft\OutlookExpress\5.0\Rules\Mail

So, you would replace the section between "HKEY_USERS\" and "\Identities"

and you would replace the section between "Identities\" and "\Software"

These are the sections that should differ in every computer.

Now, if only we could automate this procedure in a batch file, for

an "unattended XP CD - OE Rules" install...!