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The messaging subsystem in Windows, specifically under the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem, stores account configurations for email clients like Outlook. Users recovering from a formatted drive may extract this registry branch from ntuser.dat and import it, but passwords stored as encrypted values may not transfer correctly. This can result in Outlook loading accounts and emails but leaving password fields blank, requiring manual re-entry. Tools like Mail PassView may also fail to display these passwords. Troubleshooting involves understanding how Outlook encrypts and stores credentials separately from the messaging subsystem registry data.
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    Help to recover passwords to accounts in Outlook 2010

    The disk C was formatted. By means of R-Studio pulled out from it the ntuser.dat and Outlook.pst files. Through regedit I exported from ntuser.dat all branch [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem] to the .reg the file. I placed in the...
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    • data recovery disk formatting email client email service mail passview messaging subsystem ntuser.dat outlook outlook pst support password reset pop3 password r-studio regedit registry troubleshooting virtual drive windows nt
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