THANK YOU! Mission Complete!

Happily, I have reformatted and my Outlook is up and running. I don't know
if I did everything correctly on both profiles - but the primary one, mine,
had the mail account settings correctly added with the use of the registry
key, and with the help of the password recovery program, I was able to enter
and save the passwords.

Time will tell if I need to do more adjustments using the information I have
saved at your suggestions. In the meantime, I'm sending and receiving on all
the primaries.

Outlook is the only true responsibility I have to others regarding my
computer use, so it makes me extremely grateful to everyone who has
contributed input regarding this issue - I was petrified that I wouldn't have
passwords for the critical accounts, or that I would spend hours trying to
set up all the email addresses.

Now the only one put out by the reformat hassle is me - I have to reinstall
my games! *smile*

Again, thank you all!

"Kasey156" wrote:

I am on XPsp2 and Outlook 2007, and have two profiles with a total of 11
email accounts. Two of these are for non-profit organizations I help out.

I am caught in a situation where I need to "clean house" on this computer,
and for the life of me don't remember the passwords to at least half of the
accounts. In addition, some have fairly odd advanced settings, such as the
AOL and Yahoo accounts. I was trying to avoid manually copying down the
settings for each account on each profile, but the more research I do, the
more I am seeing that prior to doing any major system overhaul, I am going to
be forced to copy down all those settings and try to retrieve the passwords.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
.

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