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 (NB: no space) 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://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm#share
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191946
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davidham wrote:
I hosed my address book by trying to synch it with my telephone via
bluetooth.

Now, I can preview messages, but can't open or reply to them and I can't
open the address book.

I get various error messages "unable to open message. an error has
occurred" and "unable to open address book. The address book amy not be
installed properly". These was another one telling me to reinstall
outlook
express.

I uninstalled and reinstalled through the windows add program function,
but
nothing changed. What do I need to do?

TIA.