I recently exported my address book from Outlook Express to Outlook.

I have now gone back to Outlook Express, but find that my adress book has
been emptied.

Luckily I do have the .wab file backed up and can run it as an EXE file if
need be , but for convenience I would like to copy it to the C: drive so that
adresses show up in my contacts again.

However using the 'copy file' option in My Computer does not seem to result
in the addresses appearing when I click ToolsAddress Book in OE.

Am I doing something wrong please?

"Andrew Stucken" wrote in message
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I recently exported my address book from Outlook Express to Outlook.

I have now gone back to Outlook Express, but find that my adress book has
been emptied.

Luckily I do have the .wab file backed up and can run it as an EXE file if
need be , but for convenience I would like to copy it to the C: drive so
that
adresses show up in my contacts again.

However using the 'copy file' option in My Computer does not seem to result
in the addresses appearing when I click ToolsAddress Book in OE.

Am I doing something wrong please?

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As MS Outlook is 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 and/or
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191946
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Andrew Stucken wrote:
I recently exported my address book from Outlook Express to Outlook.

I have now gone back to Outlook Express, but find that my adress book has
been emptied.

Luckily I do have the .wab file backed up and can run it as an EXE file if
need be , but for convenience I would like to copy it to the C: drive so
that adresses show up in my contacts again.

However using the 'copy file' option in My Computer does not seem to
result
in the addresses appearing when I click ToolsAddress Book in OE.

Am I doing something wrong please?

Thanks - I changed the value to 0 in the Registry as instructed and it has
restored my address book in OE.

"Andrew Stucken" wrote:

I recently exported my address book from Outlook Express to Outlook.

I have now gone back to Outlook Express, but find that my adress book has
been emptied.

Luckily I do have the .wab file backed up and can run it as an EXE file if
need be , but for convenience I would like to copy it to the C: drive so that
adresses show up in my contacts again.

However using the 'copy file' option in My Computer does not seem to result
in the addresses appearing when I click ToolsAddress Book in OE.

Am I doing something wrong please?

You're welcome, Andrew, and thanks for your feedback.

Andrew Stucken wrote:
Thanks - I changed the value to 0 in the Registry as instructed and it has
restored my address book in OE.

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
As MS Outlook is 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 and/or
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191946

Andrew Stucken wrote:
I recently exported my address book from Outlook Express to Outlook.

I have now gone back to Outlook Express, but find that my adress book has
been emptied.

Luckily I do have the .wab file backed up and can run it as an EXE file
if
need be , but for convenience I would like to copy it to the C: drive so
that adresses show up in my contacts again.

However using the 'copy file' option in My Computer does not seem to
result
in the addresses appearing when I click ToolsAddress Book in OE.

Am I doing something wrong please?