address book missing
 

All the contacts in my address book have disappeared. Is there a way to
retreive them? Help!!!

address book missing
 

Do you mean that the Contacts Pane in the lower left hand corner is
blank? That will happen if you have more than 999 contacts. If you
open the address book itself, the contacts will still be there.

If that's not the case, have you installed or uninstalled Office or the
Outlook component of Office? If you have started or stopped sharing
contacts between Outlook Express and Office Outlook, that can also make
your contacts disappear. In that case you need to reverse the sharing
(turn it back on if you just turned it off or turn it off if you just
turned it on.).
To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm

Also 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



"JS" wrote in message
...
All the contacts in my address book have disappeared. Is there a way
to
retreive them? Help!!!

address book missing
 

Okay.. There arn't any contacts in my address book. A box appeared two days
ago asking if I wanted to make Outlook my default mail server and I clicked
yes, but outlook express 6 is my default mail server. So is there any way to
find these contacts? Thanks JS

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

Do you mean that the Contacts Pane in the lower left hand corner is
blank? That will happen if you have more than 999 contacts. If you
open the address book itself, the contacts will still be there.

If that's not the case, have you installed or uninstalled Office or the
Outlook component of Office? If you have started or stopped sharing
contacts between Outlook Express and Office Outlook, that can also make
your contacts disappear. In that case you need to reverse the sharing
(turn it back on if you just turned it off or turn it off if you just
turned it on.).
To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm

Also see
The Windows Address Book (WAB)
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm


--

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



"JS" wrote in message
...
All the contacts in my address book have disappeared. Is there a way
to
retreive them? Help!!!

address book missing
 

• 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 and/or
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191946
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MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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JS wrote:
Okay.. There arn't any contacts in my address book. A box appeared two
days
ago asking if I wanted to make Outlook my default mail server and I
clicked
yes, but outlook express 6 is my default mail server. So is there any way
to
find these contacts? Thanks JS

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

Do you mean that the Contacts Pane in the lower left hand corner is
blank? That will happen if you have more than 999 contacts. If you
open the address book itself, the contacts will still be there.

If that's not the case, have you installed or uninstalled Office or the
Outlook component of Office? If you have started or stopped sharing
contacts between Outlook Express and Office Outlook, that can also make
your contacts disappear. In that case you need to reverse the sharing
(turn it back on if you just turned it off or turn it off if you just
turned it on.).
To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm

Also see
The Windows Address Book (WAB)
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm


--

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



"JS" wrote in message
...
All the contacts in my address book have disappeared. Is there a way
to
retreive them? Help!!!