How to Recover a Deleted Outlook Profile

When you use Microsoft Outlook for the first time, you will be prompted to create a profile for yourself. You can have one profile or many of them. Some individuals like to have one for home-related and one for work-related tasks. Either way, these profiles are important because they determine which email account information you use when sending or receiving a message, as well as where your data is stored. So what happens if you accidentally delete one of your Outlook profiles?

Things You'll Need

• Internet access
• Outlook account

Instructions

1. Bring up the MS-DOS prompt on your computer. How you bring up the prompt may differ according to the version of Windows you are using. For many machines, you can click the Windows "Start" button, click "Shut Down" and then select "Restart in MS-DOS mode."

2. When the MS-DOS prompt comes up, type "scanreg.exe" and press the enter key.

3. In the "Check your Registry" window, press the "S" key to start the Registry Checker program. Then press the "V" key to view all of your registry backups. Select a date of the registry when your Outlook profile was available and working. Then, click the "R" key to load the selected registry backup. When the load process is finished, press the "R" key to restart your computer.

4. In the "Mail Setup" screen, click "Show Profiles." Select the desired profile (now restored) from the "When starting Microsoft Outlook, use this profile" box. Now your profile should be restored.

References

• Microsoft Support: How to Restore a Deleted or Modified Outlook Offline Profile