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Backing Up Your Outlook Emails

If you have Microsoft Office installed on your computer you probably have Microsoft Outlook as well. This email software, which is one of the most commonly used email clients, includes a large number of features and is relatively easy to use. There is one task in Outlook though, that is not very easy to perform. Outlook, like many other email programs, stores all your emails in a few files located in some folder that is usually hard to locate. While you could backup your Outlook emails manually by searching for the Outlook folder and including those files in the backup, this is rather time consuming, especially on a system with more than one user account. To make the situation even worse, backup operations often fail when Outlook is running because the email files are locked.

Email Backups Made Easy
The easiest way to locate your email storage folder is to search for .pst files, which are used by Outlook to store your emails. After locating these files, you can add them to a backup manually. WinBackup provides a much more efficient solution by listing all users who are using Outlook and by providing a shortcut that allows you to back up everything with just a few clicks, including your Outlook emails, address books, and Internet Favorites. WinBackup can also stop Outlook before the backup operation starts, which prevents Outlook from locking your email files. This unique feature makes it possible to backup Outlook emails in scheduled backup jobs and will make your backups run smoothly without any file sharing problems. If you send and receive a lot of attachments, your email folders are usually quite large. WinBackup solves this problem by using efficient compression techniques to reduce the size of backups on-the-fly. WinBackup can also backup your emails and data directly to CD or DVD and comes with built-in 256- or 128-bit encryption for maximum security

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