Tip: NT/95 Internet Mail & News integration simplified

Yesterday's WinInfo included detailed instructions for using the same Microsoft Internet Mail & News profiles in both Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95. WinInfo subscriber Andrea Brajuka wrote in with an easier way, however: -- Simply go to RegEdit,

Paul Thurrott

February 6, 1997

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Yesterday's WinInfo included detailed instructions for using the same Microsoft Internet Mail & News profiles in both Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95. WinInfo subscriber Andrea Brajuka wrote in with an easier way, however:

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Simply go to RegEdit, and export the whole

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet Mail and News]

branch to a MailNews.reg file. Launch this file from NT4.0 and that's it. This works under every Mail & News version. if you need the address book, then export the whole

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWAB]

branch.

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Hey, not bad. Thanks, Andrea.

--Pau

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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