Outlook Express mail rules are a great way of keeping your e-mails organized. You may find that you spend a considerable amount of time creating mail rules so Outlook Express is set up to handle your messages exactly the way you want it to. Seeing how you may have dedicated so much of your time to this, you will probably want to back up your mail rules in the event that you have to rebuild your system or transfer the settings to another computer.

Fortunately, Outlook Express allows you to back up all the mail rules you have created. To do so, open the Windows registry by clicking Start, clicking Run, and typing in regedit. Click OK. Navigate to the Outlook Express settings in the registry

(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\your identity string\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0.

Expand Rules and click Mail key. From the File menu, click Export. Specify the location to where you want to keep the copy of your mail rules. Type in a name for the file (it will have a “reg” extension) and click Save.