FAB’S AUTOBACKUP 7 PRO

User's guide

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................3
Setup instructions ...................................................................................................................................5
Use ...........................................................................................................................................................6
Backup ..................................................................................................................................................6
Restore .............................................................................................................................................. 12
Transfer ............................................................................................................................................. 16
Automate backup task.......................................................................................................................... 23
Appendix A: Set back Microsoft Outlook passwords ......................................................................... 28
A1: Under Windows XP ..................................................................................................................... 28
A2: Under Windows Vista.................................................................................................................. 30
A3: Under Windows 7........................................................................................................................ 32
A4: Under Windows 8/8.1 ................................................................................................................. 34
A5: Under Windows 10...................................................................................................................... 36
Appendix B: Customizing user interface ............................................................................................. 38
B1: How to change program's title .................................................................................................... 38
B2: How to change program's colors................................................................................................. 38
B3: How to change program's logo ................................................................................................... 39

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 INTRODUCTION

Fab’s AutoBackup 7 Pro is a tool designed for computer technicians. It helps to backup, restore or
transfer various files and settings. It works under Microsoft Windows operating systems (from
Windows XP to Windows 10). This tool is portable and does not need installation. Here are the
handled items:

- User's Desktop (files, folders, shortcuts).

- My Documents
- My Pictures
- My Music
- My Videos
- Downloads folder (Windows Vista and later)
- Quick launch toolbar shortcuts (only for Windows XP and Vista since the feature has been
removed from Windows since Windows 7)
- User's desktop wall paper (picture and settings)
- Windows Start screen Modern UI layout (only shortcuts, not applications)
- Windows Internet Explorer favorites
- Windows Internet Explorer start pages
- Windows Internet Explorer settings (proxy, security zones)
- Microsoft Edge's favorites (windows build version has to be strictly the same as it was when
restoring this item).
- Mozilla Firefox profiles
- SeaMonkey profiles
- Google Chrome profile *
- Chromium browser profile *
- Opera Web browser profile
- Vivaldi browser profile
- Microsoft Office Outlook messaging profiles and data files (PST and OST files) *
- Microsoft Outlook signatures
- Microsoft Office Outlook typed email addresses history
- Mozilla Thunderbird profiles
- Microsoft Outlook Express identities (emails, rules, email accounts)*
- IncrediMail identities (emails, rules, email accounts)
- PostBox profiles
- Windows Mail (Windows Vista app).
- Windows Live Mail
- Windows Contacts (Address Book in Windows XP, used with Outlook Express)
- Opera Mail
- eM Client
- Microsoft Office documents templates
- Microsoft Word's startup folder
- Microsoft Word's custom dictionaries
- Microsoft Word's Auto Complete entries
- Windows Vista's Calendar
- Windows Gadgets and their settings (Windows Vista and Windows 7)
- Screen saver settings
- Sticky-notes (Windows 7)
- Skype data
- Trillian data
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 - ICQ Data
- Apple IOS devices backups (MobileSync)
- Google Picasa albums and database
- Network drives connections
- Network places
- BlackBerry Desktop Manager settings
- BlackBerry devices backups
- Logitech SetPoint settings
- Microsoft IntelliPoint settings
- Microsoft IntelliType settings
- Google Earth markplaces
- Java security sites exceptions list
- FileZilla Client settings
- FileZilla Server settings
- Stored network credentials (using third party tool NirSoft NetPass, working only for current
user session)
- Email programs passwords (using third party tool NirSoft MailPassView, working only for
current user session)
- Web browsers stored passwords (using third party tool NirSoft WebBrowserPassView,
working only for current user session)
- Microsoft OneDrive local files
- DropBox local files
- Google Drive local files
- iCloud Drive local files
- hubiC local files
- Common documents
- Common desktop
- Common pictures
- Common videos
- Common Music
- Common downloads
- Microsoft Office XP/2003/2007/2010 activation files
- Fonts
- Modem settings file (rasphone.pbk)
- NCH Express Invoice data
- Steam downloaded files
- Intuit QuickBooks data
- Installed software list
- Installed printers list
- Microsoft product keys (using third party tool NirSoft ProduKey)
- Wifi keys (using third party tool NirSoft Wireless key View)
- Additional user defined folders
- Additional user defined files

* Passwords associated with these programs are not handled

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 SETUP INSTRUCTIONS

- Unpack Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro to the location you want (hard drive, USB stick or network
path).
- Run Fab’s AutoBackup 7 Pro
- Read and accept the End User License Agreement (EULA)
- Enter your order ID and the email address you used at purchase.
- Select program's language (if the one set at startup is not OK for you)
- That is it! The program is now ready to use.

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 USE

BACKUP DATA

If you are backing up from another drive, make sure you plugged it properly to the computer.

- Run the program with a double-click (a privilege elevation request may appear, grant it):

- Click "Backup data"

- Select the source hard drive in the first dropdown menu (leave it like it is if you backup from
the current system drive).
- Select the user account to backup data from (it may be already selected). You can select
more than one account at the same time. Just check its box too!
- Type the backup location or use the button to select it.
- To backup in folder containing the user's name and the backup date, check the matching box
and select (or type) the folder-naming pattern you want to use.
- Click "next" button.

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 - The program auto-detects available items and selects them. To unselect all, click the "Select
all/Unselect all" box at the bottom of the window.
- To reselect all, click the same box again.
- Items are sorted in categories. Every checked item will be processed. To navigate between
categories, use the mouse wheel or the vertical scrollbar.
- If you selected more than one user profile for the backup job, you can access his selections
using the "Showing items for" dropdown menu.
- Public folders can be accessed using the tabs.

How to use the Microsoft Outlook data files section:

- Fab’s AutoBackup auto-detects default data files (according to messaging profiles). Every
detected item is selected. To unselect a file, uncheck its box in the list.
- If some files are missing from the list, use the drop down menu to select a search location
and the magnifying lens picture to scan the selected drive or to add the file manually using
the last option of the drop down menu.

- Every found file is added to the list and selected.

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You can get the license keys for Windows and Microsoft Office programs to reinstall them later using
"ProduKey" from NirSoft. This tool is not bundled with Fab's AutoBackup but it is easy to get it
straight from the program: you need to be connected to the Internet and proceed like this:
- Go to the bottom of "Public data" tab
- Check the "Product Keys (Windows, Microsoft Office) with Nirsoft ProduKey box
- A message prompt asks for program download, click "Yes".
- Once downloaded, the "Produkey.exe" utility is saved in the Fab's AutoBackup executable
directory, in the "ProduKey" subfolder.

The same thing for WiFi networks settings is possible using NirSoft Wireless Key View.

To add extra folders to the backup:

- Click the "Extra files and folders" tab
- In then "Additional folders" square, use the tree view to navigate to the folder to add and
check its box.
- To remove an additional folder, just clear its box.

Comment: expanded folders will be added without their subfolders, collapsed ones will be
entirely processed.

You can add extra files too. Use the "+" to add a file and the "-" button to remove the one selected in
the list.

Other settings like files or folders exclusions can be added. These items can be found in the "Optional
items" category.
To exclude files by type, jump to the "Optional items" tab:
- Check the "Exclude files by type" box or click in the text field.
- Type the files types to exclude. Example : *.tmp
- To exclude more files types, use the ";" character as separator like in the example below :

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To exclude folders:
- Check the "Exclude folders" box
- Use the explorer tree to select the folder to exclude.

Once your selections made, click the "Next" button on within the last tab to see the selected items
summary. The summary is a list showing the selected items and helps in checking if everything is OK
before the files copy. To go back to selections, click the "Previous" button. Backups can take a long
time, depending on the files number and their size. This is why there is a dropdown menu allowing to
choose what to do after the. Here are the available options:

- Do nothing when finished: the program waits for your action

- Play a sound when finished: to warn you at the end of the process
- Shutdown computer when finished
- Email log when finished*
- Play sound and email the log when finished*
- Email the log and shutdown computer when finished*

If you have already made other backups in the same folder (a fixed location, without dated
subfolder), you can synchronize the backup with your actual files: all the files in the backup missing
on the computer will be removed. Use this option only if you know what you are doing because it
can destroy files in your backup. To use it, check the "Purge old files on the destination" box.
Another menu is there to set the default action to take with already existing files. Finally, there is an
option to make the program use VSS snapshot before starting the transfer job. This is useful if you
are transferring files from the current system drive and have running programs that can lock files. To
not use it (for speed reasons for example), uncheck the "Use VSS" box.
To start the copy, click the "Launch" button.

* email information such as sender, recipient and SMTP server must be set. An email settings window appears if
these settings are missing. Email settings can be changed using the icon.
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The program starts the files listing, counts them and measures their size. You can abort this process
by clicking the "Cancel" button (the circled cross button):

Backup starts. All the events are displayed in the log. It shows information, warnings and errors. If for
some reason you need to stop the copy, click the "Cancel" button:

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At the end of the restore process, the log is stored in an html file on the desktop. It is named like
"Restoration_Log_-_YYYY-MM-DD_-_HH-MM-SS.htm ". If you did not choose to shut down the
computer, you will be able to open it directly by clicking the "Show log" icon when the copy is
finished or cancelled. You can go back to items selections by clicking the "Previous" button , go back
to the welcome screen , or close the program using the cross button in the upright corner or the
"Exit" button in the downright corner.

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 RESTORE

- Run the program with a double-click (a privilege elevation request may appear, grant it):

- Click "Restore data".

- Use the popping up explorer window and select the Backup.conf file located in the backup
folder (for example: E:\Backup\YYYY-MM-DD\Computer_Name\Backup.conf)
- All the available backups appear in the first dropdown menu. Select a backup to restore in
the A menu, then, select in the B dropdown menu the user account that will receive data
from this backup. If the target account does not exists, select the "Add a user local account"
option and fill the user creation form that will appear.
- Click the "Next" button once you have the mapping you want between the backup and the
target user accounts (you can set more than one mapping at a time for multiple profiles
restore) :

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 - Items in the backup appear in colored tiles (light blue by default). Unavailable items remain
in grey. Every available item is selected automatically.
- Items are sorted in tabs.
- To uncheck and check all items in a tab at once, use the "Check All/Uncheck All" box at the
bottom.
- Show the selected items list by clicking the "Next" button on the last available tab.

Selections show up. To make some changes, click the "Previous" button. Select the default action at
the end of process: do nothing, play a sound or shut down the computer. Select the default behavior
if files are going to be overwritten. Source files can be removed by checking the matching check box.
This is useful if the backup is on the system drive as soon as the process is very fast and saves disk
space. Run the restore process by clicking "Launch" button:

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Files are now being listed for copy. While listing, the program counts the files and gets their size. You
can stop this process by clicking the "Cancel" button (circled cross):

All the events appear in the log. It shows information, warnings and errors. If for some reason you
need to stop the copy, click the "Cancel" button:

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At the end of the restore process, the log is stored in an html file on the desktop. It is named like:
"Restoration_Log_-_YYYY-MM-DD_-_HH-MM-SS.htm ". If you did not choose to shut down the
computer, you will be able to open it directly by clicking the "Show log" icon when the copy is
finished or cancelled. You can go back to items selections by clicking the "Previous" button , go back
to the welcome screen , or close the program using the cross button in the upright corner or the
"Exit" button in the downright corner.

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 TRANSFER

This function allows you to transfer data from user profiles to others. Source user profiles can be on a
local hard drive or a pulled one. In example, you can USB attach the old computer drive and use the
transfer function to migrate files and settings to the new computer.

- Run the program with a double-click (a privilege elevation request may appear, grant it):

- Click "Transfer data"

- Select the source hard drive. If the source user profile is already on your local system drive,
do not change anything here.
- Select source user profile in dropdown menu A
- Select target user profile B that will get data from user profile A. If the target user profile
does not exist on the local computer, select "Add a local user account" in the dropdown
menu B. See the "Add a new user account" section below.

Add a new user account:

- Type the user's name
- Enter a password if you want to protect it. This is optional.
- If the new user account needs to be a local administrator, check the "Local administrator"
box.
- Click the button to create the user account.

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- If user accounts are linked by mistake, select the "link" in the transfer summary list, then click
the button or hit the "Del" key to remove it.

- Click the "Next" button for items selections or click the "Previous" button to go back to then
welcome screen.

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 - A drop down menu gives access to items per user. Select the user name to see the matching
items.
- The program auto-detects available items and selects them. To unselect all, click the "Select
all/Unselect all" box at the bottom of the window.
- To reselect all, click the same box again.
- Items are sorted in categories. Every checked item will be processed. To navigate between
categories, use the mouse wheel or the vertical scrollbar.
- Public folders can be accessed using the tabs.

How to use the Microsoft Outlook data files section:

- Fab’s AutoBackup auto-detects default data files (according to messaging profiles). Every
detected item is selected. To unselect a file, uncheck its box in the list.
- If some files are missing from the list, use the drop down menu to select a search location
and the magnifying lens picture to scan the selected drive or to add the file manually using
the last option of the drop down menu.

- Every found file is added to the list and selected.

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You can get the license keys for Windows and Microsoft Office programs to reinstall them later using
"ProduKey" from NirSoft. This tool is not bundled with Fab's AutoBackup but it is easy to get it
straight from the program: you need to be connected to the Internet and proceed like this:
- Go to the bottom of "Public data" tab
- Check the "Product Keys (Windows, Microsoft Office) with Nirsoft ProduKey box
- A message prompt asks for program download, click "Yes".
- Once downloaded, the "Produkey.exe" utility is saved in the Fab's AutoBackup executable
directory, in the "ProduKey" subfolder.

To add extra folders to the process:

- Click the "Extra files and folders" tab
- In then "Additional folders" square, use the tree view to navigate to the folder to add and
check its box.
- To remove an additional folder, just clear its box.

Comment: expanded folders will be added without their subfolders, collapsed ones will be
entirely processed.

You can add extra files too. Use the "+" to add a file and the "-" button to remove the one selected in
the list.

Other settings like files or folders exclusions can be added. These items are in the "Optional items"
category.
To exclude files by type, jump to the "Optional items" tab:
- Check the "Exclude files by type" box or click in the text field.
- Type the files types to exclude. Example : *.tmp
- To exclude more files types, use the ";" character as separator like in the example below :

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To exclude folders:
- Check the "Exclude folders" box
- Use the explorer tree to select the folder to exclude.

Once your selections made, click the "Next" button on within the last tab to see the selected items
summary. The summary is a list showing the selected items and helps in checking if everything is OK
before the files copy. To go back to selections, click the "Previous" button. Backups can take a long
time, depending on the files number and their size. This is why there is a dropdown menu allowing to
choose what to do after the. Here are the available options:

- Do nothing when finished: the program waits for your action

- Play a sound when finished: to warn you at the end of the process
- Shutdown computer when finished
- Email log when finished*
- Play sound and email the log when finished*
- Email the log and shutdown computer when finished*

If you have already made other backups in the same folder (a fixed location, without dated
subfolder), you can synchronize the backup with your actual files: all the files in the backup missing
on the computer will be removed. Use this option only if you know what you are doing because it
can destroy files in your backup. To use it, check the "Purge old files on the destination" box.
Another menu is there to set the default action to take with already existing files.
Finally, there is an option to make the program use VSS snapshot before starting the transfer job.
This is useful if you are transferring files from the current system drive and have running programs
that can lock files. To not use it (for speed reasons for example), uncheck the "Use VSS" box.
To start the copy, click the "Launch" button.

* email information such as sender, recipient and SMTP server must be set. An email settings window appears if
these settings are missing. Email settings can be changed using the icon.

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The program starts the files listing, counts them and measures their size. You can abort this process
by clicking the "Cancel" button (the circled cross button):

Transfer starts. All the events appear in the log. It shows information, warnings and errors. If for
some reason you need to stop the copy, click the "Cancel" button:

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At the end of the transfer process, the log is stored in an htm file on the local public desktop. It will
be named like: "Transfer_Log_-_YYYY-MM-DD_-_HH-MM-SS.htm". If you did not choose to shut
down the computer, you will be able to open it directly by clicking the button "Show log icon" when
the copy is finished or cancelled. You can go back to items selections by clicking the "Previous"
button , go back to the welcome screen , or close the program using the cross button in the
upright corner or the "Exit" button in the downright corner.

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 AUTOMATE BACKUP TASK

Fab's AutoBackup is bundled with a utility designed to automate backup process by creating
scheduled tasks or generating a command line script.

- Find the "Command Line Builder 7" tool in main program's folder and run it.
- Specify the program's executable path if it is not filled automatically.
- Select the source hard drive if backing up from another windows installation.
- Leave the "Select all users" if you are backing up all the users profiles data at once.
Otherwise, clear that box and type the user name. If you want to backup another user profile
in this operation, add a comma (;) and type the second user name.

- Specify the backup folder location

- To backup in folder containing the user's name and the backup date, check the matching box
and select (or type) the folder-naming pattern you want to use.
- Click "Next" button to access user's items selections.

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 - Select the user items you want to backup. These settings will be applied for every user profile
selected. There is no way to specify settings per user profile.

Tip: if you want to select only a few items, you can uncheck the "Check All / Uncheck All" box at the
bottom to clear every selected items boxes. Then, just check the items you want.

- Click "Next" button to access the common items selections.

- Select the common items you want to backup

- Click "Next" button to access additional files and folders selections

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- To include an additional folder in the backup, navigate to it using the tree view and select it.

Tip: if you select a folder that has subfolders (there is a ">" sign at its left) and leave it collapsed,
all the sub folders will be included. If you expand it then select it, only the content at its root will
be included.

- To include additional files, click the "+" button and select the file. If you want to remove a file
from the list, select it and click the "-" button:

Tip: you can search the source hard drive for files like in the last text field.

- Click the "Next" button to access files and folders exclusion settings.

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- You can exclude files by their extension like in the example below.
- To exclude an entire folder, just navigate to it using the tree view and select it.

- Click the "Next" button to access the email settings for this job.

- If you do not want to send backup reports through email, you can just skip this step.
Otherwise, check the "Email logs" box and fill the form:

- You can check is your settings are working with the "Test settings" button.
- Click the "Next" button to access the final settings

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 - Here you can specify additional settings like what to do after the job is done, what to do with
already existing files, where to store the backup logs…
- You can choose to make a mirror copy of the items you have selected by checking the "Purge
old files on the destination" box. All the files that are not anymore on the computer will be
removed from the backup. Use this option only if you know what you are doing because it
can destroy files in your backup!
- Check the "Silent" box is you want to perform the backup task without any visible window.

- Click "Next" button to access the task settings (scheduling task or save a script).

- You will find here various settings for setting up your scheduled task like the repeat
frequency settings. First, specify a task name. Then select at what time you want it to start
and how often you want to run the backup. Finally, specify a user name and password if you
want it to run even if the user is not logged on. This can be useful if you had to enter
administrator credentials when you started this tool! Finally, click the "Create task button" to
add your task to the Windows task scheduler.

To save your settings in a command line script instead, Check the "Command line" radio box and
Save the script (on the user's desktop for example) or copy it to the clipboard (then paste it in your
custom scripts).

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 APPENDIX A: Set Microsoft Outlook passwords

Follow this procedure to prevent Microsoft Outlook to prompt several times for e-mail accounts
passwords (mostly for IMAP accounts).

A1: Under Windows XP:

- Click "Start" , then click "Control Panel"

- If your control panel is sorted by categories, open "Users Accounts" or go to next step.

- Open "Mail"

- If there are more than one Outlook profiles, choose the one to edit. Click "E-mail accounts"

- Double-click the email account to edit

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 - Fill the password field
- Check the "Remember password" box
- If the Outgoing server requires different user name and password, click the "More settings"
button and set the password in "outgoing server tab" the same way (click the "remember
password box) and click "OK" button.
- Click "Next" button

- Click the finish button

Repeat this procedure for every Outlook profile and email account.

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A2: Under Windows Vista:

- Click then Windows "Start" button , then right-click the Outlook "E-Mail" icon and
select "Properties"

- If there are more than one Outlook profiles, choose the one to edit. Click "E-mail accounts"

- Double-click the email account to edit

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 - Fill the password field
- Check the "Remember password" box
- If the Outgoing server requires different user name and password, click the "More settings"
button and set the password in "outgoing server tab" the same way (click the "remember
password box) and click "OK" button.
- Click "Next" button

- Click the finish button

Repeat this procedure for every Outlook profile and email account.

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A3: Under Windows 7:

- Click "Start" button , then click "Control Panel"

- If your control panel is sorted by categories, open "Users Accounts" or go to next step.

- Open "Mail"

- If there are more than one Outlook profiles, choose the one to edit. Click "E-mail accounts"

- Double-click the email account to edit

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 - Fill the password field
- Check the "Remember password" box
- If the Outgoing server requires different user name and password, click the "More settings"
button and set the password in "outgoing server tab" the same way (click the "remember
password box) and click "OK" button.
- Click "Next" button

- Click the finish button

Repeat this procedure for every Outlook profile and email account.

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A4: Under Windows 8/8.1:

- Right-click on the very bottom-left of the screen and select "Control Panel"

- If your control panel is sorted by categories, open "Users Accounts" or go to next step.

- Open "Mail"

- If there are more than one Outlook profiles, choose the one to edit. Click "E-mail accounts"

- Double-click the email account to edit

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 - Fill the password field
- Check the "Remember password" box
- If the Outgoing server requires different user name and password, click the "More settings"
button and set the password in "outgoing server tab" the same way (click the "remember
password box) and click "OK" button.
- Click "Next" button

- Click the finish button

Repeat this procedure for every Outlook profile and email account.

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A5: under Windows 10:

- Open start menu and type "Control panel", then click "Control panel" in the search results.

- If your control panel is sorted by categories, open "Users Accounts" or go to next step.

- Open "Mail"

- If there are more than one Outlook profiles, choose the one to edit. Click "E-mail accounts"

- Double-click the email account to edit

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 - Fill the password field
- Check the "Remember password" box
- If the Outgoing server requires different user name and password, click the "More settings"
button and set the password in "outgoing server tab" the same way (click the "remember
password box) and click "OK" button.
- Click "Next" button

- Click the finish button

Repeat this procedure for every Outlook profile and email account.

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 APPENDIX B: Customizing user interface

Follow this procedure if you need to change the program's colors for your company's.

B1: CHANGE PROGRAM'S TITLE

The program must have been run at least once. This will automatically create an "Autobackup.ini"
configuration file in the executable's folder.

- Open the "Autobackup.ini" file using notepad.

- Find the "[BRANDING]" section
- Set the "Title" value to what you want. It should look like this :

[BRANDING]
Title=My Company's Name
- Save the file and close Notepad.
- Run the program and see if its title changed.

B2: CHANGE PROGRAM'S COLORS

This part of customization is a bit more complicated as color values are in HTML hexadecimal
code. In example, white's value is #FFFFFF when black's is #000000. You will need to know the
hexadecimal code for the colors you want to use for Fab's AutoBackup 7.

You will find some help here: https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp or you can

use an image editing software like pain.net to get the code

Here are the default values to edit in the "Autobackup.ini" file:

[BRANDING]
Title=
BackGroundColor=#4972A9
AppTitleColor=#C1C1C1
SecondaryTitleColor=#FFFFFF
CategoryFontColor=#FFFFFF
TopGradientStartColor=#020281
TopGradientEndColor=#4972A9
TabsBackgroundColor=#7CAFE9
ActiveTabColor=#4972A9
ActiveTabFontColor=#FFFFFF
InactiveTabColor=#5D5D5D
InactiveTabFontColor=#D4D4D4
TabMouseOverColor=#62A0C1
TabMouseOverFontColor=#FFFFFF
ItemColor=#7CAFE9
ItemMouseOverColor=#80B3EA
ItemFontColor=#000000

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Example: BackGroundColor value is the most used color on the program's windows. Here is what
happens if its value is changed with a dark red hexadecimal code (#4C0000):

You can change every color (except for the three icons in the upright corner and the job log).

B3: CHANGE PROGRAM'S LOGO

All you need to have to do in order to add your own logo is to put a logo.png file in the program's
folder. 180 pixels height PNG pictures give the best results.

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