MS XP Pro SP2, w/auto-updates enabled

Yesterday, I upgraded from IE6 to IE7, and from Office 2000 to Office
2003. This morning, OE6 won't let me create or reply to email -- it
complains about the Address Book or missing components.

A search of my disk shows a single .wab file from 2004. I opened it
using wab.exe, and it's from 2004 all right.

I've gone through the KBase and other Google hits. I've edited the
WAB4 UseOutlook key in the registry (set it to 0) etc. to no avail.

I auto-run a backup every night (Second Copy 2000; simply copy mode)
but it looks like the 2004 address book has overwritten any more
recent one I may have had on the backup.

I'm screwed, I guess?

Try this and see if it fixes it:

Go to Start | Run and type the following:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\OUTLOOK EXPRESS\MSIMN.EXE" /reg
(Check the path to msimn.exe to make sure that is correct)

Make certain to include the quotations marks and the space between the
ending quotation mark and the slash.

Then open Internet Explorer and go to Tools\Internet Options\Programs and
set OE as the default mail (and news) program.

This may have been caused by the changes to Outlook, which insists that it
should be the default mail program. Good luck.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.





"Richard Eich" wrote in message
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MS XP Pro SP2, w/auto-updates enabled

Yesterday, I upgraded from IE6 to IE7, and from Office 2000 to Office
2003. This morning, OE6 won't let me create or reply to email -- it
complains about the Address Book or missing components.

A search of my disk shows a single .wab file from 2004. I opened it
using wab.exe, and it's from 2004 all right.

I've gone through the KBase and other Google hits. I've edited the
WAB4 UseOutlook key in the registry (set it to 0) etc. to no avail.

I auto-run a backup every night (Second Copy 2000; simply copy mode)
but it looks like the 2004 address book has overwritten any more
recent one I may have had on the backup.

I'm screwed, I guess?

"Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote...
Try this and see if it fixes it:

Go to Start | Run and type the following:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\OUTLOOK EXPRESS\MSIMN.EXE" /reg
(Check the path to msimn.exe to make sure that is correct)

Make certain to include the quotations marks and the space between the
ending quotation mark and the slash.

Then open Internet Explorer and go to Tools\Internet Options\Programs and
set OE as the default mail (and news) program.

This may have been caused by the changes to Outlook, which insists that it
should be the default mail program. Good luck.

Thanks -- it did work, although all the additions to the address
table since sometime in 2004 have been lost for some reason.

Shrug. Sh*t happens.

You might want to see if Outlook has the missing contacts and if so, you can
export them as a CSV file and import that CSV file into the Windows Address
Book.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications



"Richard Eich" wrote in message
...
"Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote...
Try this and see if it fixes it:

Go to Start | Run and type the following:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\OUTLOOK EXPRESS\MSIMN.EXE" /reg
(Check the path to msimn.exe to make sure that is correct)

Make certain to include the quotations marks and the space between the
ending quotation mark and the slash.

Then open Internet Explorer and go to Tools\Internet Options\Programs and
set OE as the default mail (and news) program.

This may have been caused by the changes to Outlook, which insists that
it
should be the default mail program. Good luck.

Thanks -- it did work, although all the additions to the address
table since sometime in 2004 have been lost for some reason.

Shrug. Sh*t happens.

You probably had OE set to share the Outlook Contacts file and now it's
not set that way. So you contacts are over in Outlook and OE isn't
looking there.

To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm


--

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


"Richard Eich" wrote in message
...
"Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote...
Try this and see if it fixes it:

Go to Start | Run and type the following:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\OUTLOOK EXPRESS\MSIMN.EXE" /reg
(Check the path to msimn.exe to make sure that is correct)

Make certain to include the quotations marks and the space between
the
ending quotation mark and the slash.

Then open Internet Explorer and go to Tools\Internet Options\Programs
and
set OE as the default mail (and news) program.

This may have been caused by the changes to Outlook, which insists
that it
should be the default mail program. Good luck.

Thanks -- it did work, although all the additions to the address
table since sometime in 2004 have been lost for some reason.

Shrug. Sh*t happens.

try this link - it worked for me whereas countless dozens of other supposed
fixes failed!

http://www.activewin.com/tips/tips/m...vanced/8.shtml


"Richard Eich" wrote in message
.. .
MS XP Pro SP2, w/auto-updates enabled

Yesterday, I upgraded from IE6 to IE7, and from Office 2000 to Office
2003. This morning, OE6 won't let me create or reply to email -- it
complains about the Address Book or missing components.

A search of my disk shows a single .wab file from 2004. I opened it
using wab.exe, and it's from 2004 all right.

I've gone through the KBase and other Google hits. I've edited the
WAB4 UseOutlook key in the registry (set it to 0) etc. to no avail.

I auto-run a backup every night (Second Copy 2000; simply copy mode)
but it looks like the 2004 address book has overwritten any more
recent one I may have had on the backup.

I'm screwed, I guess?

wrote...
try this link - it worked for me whereas countless dozens of other supposed
fixes failed!

http://www.activewin.com/tips/tips/m...vanced/8.shtml

Sounds interesting. Got a HTTP 404 when trying to load the page,
though.

"Richard Eich" wrote in message
MS XP Pro SP2, w/auto-updates enabled

Yesterday, I upgraded from IE6 to IE7, and from Office 2000 to Office
2003. This morning, OE6 won't let me create or reply to email -- it
complains about the Address Book or missing components.

A search of my disk shows a single .wab file from 2004. I opened it
using wab.exe, and it's from 2004 all right.

I've gone through the KBase and other Google hits. I've edited the
WAB4 UseOutlook key in the registry (set it to 0) etc. to no avail.

I auto-run a backup every night (Second Copy 2000; simply copy mode)
but it looks like the 2004 address book has overwritten any more
recent one I may have had on the backup.

I'm screwed, I guess?

Try opening Outlook and see if you can export the contacts from there as a
CSV file which you can later import into Outlook Express. Look through the
contacts in Outlook to see if the desired ones are there. Good luck.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.


"Richard Eich" wrote in message
...
wrote...
try this link - it worked for me whereas countless dozens of other
supposed
fixes failed!

http://www.activewin.com/tips/tips/m...vanced/8.shtml

Sounds interesting. Got a HTTP 404 when trying to load the page,
though.

"Richard Eich" wrote in message
MS XP Pro SP2, w/auto-updates enabled

Yesterday, I upgraded from IE6 to IE7, and from Office 2000 to Office
2003. This morning, OE6 won't let me create or reply to email -- it
complains about the Address Book or missing components.

A search of my disk shows a single .wab file from 2004. I opened it
using wab.exe, and it's from 2004 all right.

I've gone through the KBase and other Google hits. I've edited the
WAB4 UseOutlook key in the registry (set it to 0) etc. to no avail.

I auto-run a backup every night (Second Copy 2000; simply copy mode)
but it looks like the 2004 address book has overwritten any more
recent one I may have had on the backup.

I'm screwed, I guess?

"Richard Eich" wrote in message
...
wrote...
try this link - it worked for me whereas countless dozens of other
supposed
fixes failed!

http://www.activewin.com/tips/tips/m...vanced/8.shtml

Sounds interesting. Got a HTTP 404 when trying to load the page,
though.

Try
http://www.activewin.com/tips/tips/m...vanced/8.shtml

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.

"Richard Eich" wrote in message
...
wrote...
try this link - it worked for me whereas countless dozens of other
supposed
fixes failed!

http://www.activewin.com/tips/tips/m...vanced/8.shtml

Sounds interesting. Got a HTTP 404 when trying to load the page,
though.

"Richard Eich" wrote in message
MS XP Pro SP2, w/auto-updates enabled

Yesterday, I upgraded from IE6 to IE7, and from Office 2000 to Office
2003. This morning, OE6 won't let me create or reply to email -- it
complains about the Address Book or missing components.

A search of my disk shows a single .wab file from 2004. I opened it
using wab.exe, and it's from 2004 all right.

I've gone through the KBase and other Google hits. I've edited the
WAB4 UseOutlook key in the registry (set it to 0) etc. to no avail.

I auto-run a backup every night (Second Copy 2000; simply copy mode)
but it looks like the 2004 address book has overwritten any more
recent one I may have had on the backup.

I'm screwed, I guess?