Overnight, outlook Express 6 seemed to have failed in these two areas for no
reason. First, the address book disappeared
and indicates that it is not installed. Second, outlook express 6 receives
email, but will not send. Trying to do so (send) a message
pops up saying that outlook express is not configured correctly and to
reinstall. How does one reinstall outlook express 6 and will
I loose the emails that are in outlook?

Thanks

Post the complete error messages you're getting and tell us if MS Office or
MS Outlook is also installed.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

Zap Eagle wrote:
Overnight, outlook Express 6 seemed to have failed in these two areas for
no
reason. First, the address book disappeared
and indicates that it is not installed. Second, outlook express 6
receives
email, but will not send. Trying to do so (send) a message
pops up saying that outlook express is not configured correctly and to
reinstall. How does one reinstall outlook express 6 and will
I loose the emails that are in outlook?

Thanks

You don't need to reinstall. Go to File | Identities and set up a new
Identity. Also see points 2 and 3 here www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx and
point 4 for recovering messages.

For the address book, search for *.wab or *~* (for the backup).

steve

"Zap Eagle" wrote in message
news:KAHSg.74000$aJ.60735@attbi_s21...
Overnight, outlook Express 6 seemed to have failed in these two areas for
no
reason. First, the address book disappeared
and indicates that it is not installed. Second, outlook express 6
receives
email, but will not send. Trying to do so (send) a message
pops up saying that outlook express is not configured correctly and to
reinstall. How does one reinstall outlook express 6 and will
I loose the emails that are in outlook?

Thanks

Coincendently, Microsoft Office 2003 was installed the day before, but did
so on two other computers without any incident.
The two messages are that the address book is not installed and could not
send mail because outlook express is not configured correctly.
Thanx
"Zap Eagle" wrote in message
news:KAHSg.74000$aJ.60735@attbi_s21...
Overnight, outlook Express 6 seemed to have failed in these two areas for
no
reason. First, the address book disappeared
and indicates that it is not installed. Second, outlook express 6
receives
email, but will not send. Trying to do so (send) a message
pops up saying that outlook express is not configured correctly and to
reinstall. How does one reinstall outlook express 6 and will
I loose the emails that are in outlook?

Thanks

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
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)


Zap Eagle wrote:
Coincendently, Microsoft Office 2003 was installed the day before, but did
so on two other computers without any incident.
The two messages are that the address book is not installed and could not
send mail because outlook express is not configured correctly.
Thanx
"Zap Eagle" wrote in message
news:KAHSg.74000$aJ.60735@attbi_s21...
Overnight, outlook Express 6 seemed to have failed in these two areas for
no
reason. First, the address book disappeared
and indicates that it is not installed. Second, outlook express 6
receives
email, but will not send. Trying to do so (send) a message
pops up saying that outlook express is not configured correctly and to
reinstall. How does one reinstall outlook express 6 and will
I loose the emails that are in outlook?

Thanks

Thank you PA Bear, I will check that out tomorrow!


"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
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
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)


Zap Eagle wrote:
Coincendently, Microsoft Office 2003 was installed the day before, but
did
so on two other computers without any incident.
The two messages are that the address book is not installed and could not
send mail because outlook express is not configured correctly.
Thanx
"Zap Eagle" wrote in message
news:KAHSg.74000$aJ.60735@attbi_s21...
Overnight, outlook Express 6 seemed to have failed in these two areas
for
no
reason. First, the address book disappeared
and indicates that it is not installed. Second, outlook express 6
receives
email, but will not send. Trying to do so (send) a message
pops up saying that outlook express is not configured correctly and to
reinstall. How does one reinstall outlook express 6 and will
I loose the emails that are in outlook?

Thanks

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Overnight, outlook Express 6 seemed to have failed in these two areas for
no
reason. First, the address book disappeared
and indicates that it is not installed. Second, outlook express 6
receives
email, but will not send. Trying to do so (send) a message
pops up saying that outlook express is not configured correctly and to
reinstall. How does one reinstall outlook express 6 and will
I loose the emails that are in outlook?

Thanks