Quick backup and restore of your NK2 file

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You know your NK2 file, what is that you ask? It’s that pesky file that auto-completes your sendto contacts inside of Outlook when you are typing a new message. This is a critical file to most people, and they don’t even know it until it is gone.

To back it up.bat

md \\yourserver1\nk2\%username%
copy “c:\Documents and Settings\%username%\application data\Microsoft\Outlook\*.Nk2” \\yourserver\nk2\%username%

To restore it.bat

copy \\yourserver1\nk2\%username%\*.nk2 “c:\Documents and Settings\%username%\application data\Microsoft\Outlook\”

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