So I ran across one of those, “Why the h*ll didn’t Microsoft put this in?” this morning and thought I would share it with all of you Microsoft Outlook users out there. It’s the ability of adding a ‘Recover Deleted Items’ to the Tools menu in Microsoft Outlook. What this allows you to do, is retrieve permanently deleted items and restoring them back to your stored e-mail.
It’s just a simple registry hack for Windows Vista or XP, and appears to work with Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.
1. Browse to your registry, going to Start>Run in XP, or simply going to Start in Vista and typing in ‘Regedit.
2. Browse to HKEY_Local_Machine and select Software, then Microsoft, then Exchange and finally client.
3. Within client, you will see ‘Options’. Create a New D Word by right clicking in the right-hand panel and selecting
3. You will find Microsoft there. Expand Microsoft.
4. Expand exchange and then client.
5. You will find Options there. Right click on Options, choose New and
click on D Word Value.
6. Rename the Dword value to ‘DumpsterAlwaysOn. (Case Sensitive)
7. Modify the DumpsterAlwaysOn by double-clicking on it and changing the value to 1.
8. Test the new feature by going to Outlook and choosing Tools and seeing if ‘Recover Deleted Items’ is there.
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December 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 am
I have Microsoft Outlook 2007. I did what you said to do and “recover deleted items” is not in my tools. What do I do now? Thank you.