The address book is called your-account-name.wab. Windows creates a
backup copy of the address book called your-account-name.wab~

If you're certain that the address book is corrupt, simply rename the
original, corrupt address book (for example, your-account-name.wa_) and
rename the backup copy by dropping the tilde. Back in business.

---
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

dNOfSPAMn wrote:
Hi Group,

My father's machine running XPpro Sp2, has suddenly decided that the address
book in outlook express (ie6)is corrupt and it must be re-installed.

I have looked around the web and this seems to be a fairly common problem,
however the correction of this seems fairly complex, surely Microsoft must
have come up with a quick fix to this problem, especially as it seems of
their making, what with faulty updates and the complexity of outlook and
outlook express.

Please does anyone have a simple resolution to this problem, that we both
can understand.

Thanks in advance to all those that take the time to reply.

David