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My Rules Disappeared!

MS Outlook 2000 crashed my computer several times this morning.  I don't know why - perhaps an email crashed it when Outlook tried to display it in the preview window.

Now that I have rebooted several times after several crashes, and I have noticed that ALL of my rules have disappeared!

Where were the rules stored? Maybe I have a backup of this file?
Or might it be possible to find them in some disconnected file/location on my computer?
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The rules are stored in windows registry, search for a keyword in in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\
I mean if you remember some text of the rule, search for in windows registry, going to start, run , regedit, CTRL+F
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I couldn't find [SPAM] in the registry.
I tried to do a system restore to earlier in the week, but it didn't work! I was able to restore to yesterday, but my rules are still missing.

Does that mean they are gone forever?

Is there a way to back them up automatically?
Sorry, my first aswer was totally wrong (that's was for Outlook Express i think).

If you store them locally no in a exchange server.

Open your browser and type %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook  then search for files with .rwz extension, if they are not there search for them in your PC.
At this point it is too late. I recreated the rules.
I did a search for RWZ, and found the current rules file, but that was obviously created by me just now.

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