Backing up Email

• Open Windows Mail.
• From the menu select Tools > Options..
• Click the Advanced tab.
  
  
• Click the Maintenance... button.
  
  
  
• Click the Store Folder... button.
  Result: The Store Location dialog box appears listing your personal message storage folder. This is the default location that Windows Mail currently stores your e-mail.
  
  
• Select (highlight) and copy the folder location by pressing Ctrl + C on your keyboard.
• Click Cancel and Close until you have closed all open dialog boxes.
• Close Windows Mail.
  
  Note: If you do not close Windows Mail before this step, you may receive error messages that certain files are still in use. Make sure Windows Mail is closed.
• From the Windows Vista desktop, click the Start button, and type Run in the Start Search field.
  Run will appear at the top of the search results. Click this...
• When the Run dialog box opens, paste in the file path you just copied by pressing CTRL+V on your keyboard, unless it has already defaulted in to the Open: field, and click OK.
• From the Organize menu, select Select All.
  
• From the Organize menu, select Copy, and then close the window.
  
• Right-click any empty space on your desktop, select New, and then Folder.
  
• Type "Mail Backup" for the folder name, and then press Enter.
  
• Double-click the Mail Backup folder to open it.
  
• From the Organize menu, select Paste.
  

Close the Mail Backup window.
Result: The window closes and you are done

>>Peter<< is my answer not relevant here??