Re: Adrress book questions

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Michael,

FYI, unfortunately, the Regdat-Registry Viewer will only work on Win9x/Me
and not on XP.

But, thanks for trying to help,

Tom


"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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1) The message rules are stored in the registry. Since you aren't booting
from that drive, you would need to use a special utility to read the
registry.

Regdat - Registry viewer
http://people.freenet.de/h.ulbrich/

As for the OE information in the registry, see:
Backing Up, Recovering and Restoring Outlook Express versions 5 & 6 Files
and Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm

2) All identities within a single Windows logon share a common WAB
(Windows Address Book) file. The contacts are keyed to the identities.
There is a section in the WAB for each identity, plus a shared contacts
section. When accessed via OE, you will see the shared contacts, plus the
contacts for the currently logged identity. You will not see the contacts
for any other identity.

I'm not sure what VBS script you are talking about.

I'm also not sure what you are attempting to accomplish.

For more on the WAB file, see:
The Windows Address Book (WAB)
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Tom Brown" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The motherboard on my Dell laptop died (two months out of extended
warranty) so I have temporarily attached the laptop hard disk to my
wife's desktop computer. On her machine's version of OE, I have made an
identity that accesses the external hard drive and I see all my messages
just fine. But, I do have two quesitons.

1. I did not have a chance to export the Message Rules and import them
back into this instance of OE. Is there a way to point to the rules that
I had on the laptop?

2. I want to get access to my address book without interfering with my
wife's address book. Her identity is the default but when I use her
machine, I switch to my identity. I downloaded the VBS script from
Tomsterdam and it worked fine for the default address book. I guess the
specific question is can each identity have a separate address book? If
so, please tell me how to do it.

I did search for her address book and opened it independently and I could
see the two identities. I tried to import my addresses into my folder
and it took a long time, but I didn't see the addresses when I opened OE
again.

Thanks in advance,

Tom






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