How to export and backup user Outlook profile?

It’s not easy and time-consuming to add email accounts, design signatures, make rules, etc. in Microsoft Outlook. Therefore, it’s quite necessary to back up the user Outlook profile before crucial changes. It also save your time to transfer account settings to new computer with exported user Outlook profile. In this article, I will describe how to export and back up user Outlook profiles in details.

To export and backup the user Outlook profile, please do as following:

Step 1: Close your Microsoft Outlook, and then press the Win+ R keys at the same time to open the Run dialog box.

Step 2: Enter the regedit into the Open box in the Run dialog box, and then click the OK button.

Step 3: In the popping up User Account Control dialog box, please click the Yes button.

Step 4: Now the Register Editor window opens. Find out the Profile folder with following paths:

For Outlook 2010 and 2007: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles

For Outlook 2013: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Profiles

Step 5: Right click the profile folder in the Registry Editor window, and then select the Export from the right-clicking menu. See screen shot above.

Step 6: Then the Export Registry File dialog box comes out. In this dialog box, please:

(1) Open the folder that you will save exported user Outlook profile in;

(2) Enter a name for the exported user Outlook profile in the File name box;

(3) Click the Save button.

Then the User Outlook profile is exported and saved into the specified folder at once.

Step 7: Close the Register Editor window.

Note: Microsoft Outlook will restore the user Outlook profile with just double clicking the exported profile.