Spamming has become a big problem and since it wastes plenty of your productive time and effort, it’s necessary that you take proactive steps to curb this growing menace. You may have already added the names or domains of spammers in the blocked senders list of your outlook express mail client, but that itself won’t be enough because the blocked senders list is stored on your hard drive and can get easily damaged or erased in case of a crash or system instability. If your computer somehow loses the blocked senders list, it would mean that you will have to do all the hard work all over again and worst still you will have to manually delete all the spam mails that might start reappearing in your inbox.

To tide over such potential vulnerabilities, you need to create multiple backups of your blocked senders list. For this you will have to access the “Registry Editor” on your computer and follow the instructions as available on Microsoft’s customer support website. Detailed instructions on creating backup files of blocked senders list are available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276511. Tweaking the registry is not something that is generally recommended, but if you follow the step-by-step instructions as given on this web site, it’s highly unlikely that you will make any grave mistakes. Just don’t try to do things on your own and you will easily be able to create backup copies of your blocked senders list.

For reducing the probability of loss to its barest minimum, you need to store the backed up copy of your blocked senders list at multiple locations such the various drives on your computer, CD/DVD, flash drives, tape drives, and even online if you wish so. This would help you in avoiding unnecessary problems that might come up in case your computer crashes and you are left with no other option but to format your C drive and reinstall Windows. Not to mention the complete peace of mind that you will have after creating backup copies of your blocked senders list.

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