How to open an archive or personal folder in Outlook 2003

How to open an archive or personal folder in Outlook 2003

 

 

Click the “File” menu:

 

 

Then hover your mouse pointer over the “Open” menu item:

 

 

Then click on “Outlook Data File...”

 

 

When the window appears you should already be in your “Outlook” folder:

 

 

In the main section of the window there should be a file named “archive”.  If you have extensions turned on then there will be a “.pst” after the file name.  You may also have a file named “Personal Folders”.

 

 

Highlight the file by clicking once with the left mouse button and then click on the “OK” button:

 

 

On the left side of your “Microsoft Outlook” window you should see a new “Archive Folders” icon with a plus sign next to it:

 

 

Click the plus sign to expand the folders within the archive:

 

 

The folders you see are dependent on the setting for your email archiving.  Click on each folder to start browsing the information held within.

Microsoft System Sweeper

Have you ever had a PC so infected it would not boot? Perhaps this machine is so infected that scanning from within Windows, or even, Safe Mode will not succeed. We in IT have all tried various scanning utilities to get a PC to boot from outside of Windows. Well it seems that Microsoft is taking their AV tools a step further than their rather GOOD Security Essentials and giving us an easy solution.

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