Re: Address Book Corrupt

From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:49:58 -0400

Is MS Outlook (or MS Office) also installed?

Do you have this Registry key?...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
    \Software
          \Microsoft
               \WAB
                  \WAB4

If not, STOP; If so, is there a DWORD named UseOutlook and is its value set
to 1 (one)?

If not, STOP; If so, Address Book is configured to share contacts with
Outlook, even if you don't use it (can happen with the install of Office).
Change the value to 0 (zero), Address Book should be available to you and
all should be well. (If that DWORD is not present, don't create it, and
don't alter any other DWORD values.)

Note that any changes (additions, deletions, edits) made while sharing was
enabled will not be available (displayed) in Address Book when sharing is
disabled.

cf. http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm#share 

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SJP wrote:
> When I click on Addresses in OE6,
> I get
> "Unable to open the address book"
> "The address book may not be installed properly"
>
> Another symptom is that I can receive messages, but
> cannot create messages. The first message that came
> up initially was to with the address book
>
> So any suggestions will be greatly appreciated on
> How to reload the address book or even
> OE6 without using the ie6 setup, which
> does not fix the problem
>
> SJP
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> How do you know it is corrupted?  Are you getting any error messages?  If
>> so, please post the complete and exact error message and someone will try 
>> to
>> help you.
>> --
>> Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
>> Please reply only to newsgroup.
>>
>>
>> "SJP" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:1eae01c485f1$6ad4f3d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>> How do I fix a corrupt address book. I've tried
>>> uninstalling and reinstalling ie6 but that did not help.
>>>
>>> any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
>>
>> .

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