Address Book / Contact List

I recently had to reformat and reinstall Windows XP (and all updates).

It used to be that my Outlook Express accessed the Outlook contact list, but with the new reinstall, it does not.

How can I get OE to access the Outlook contacts again?

Thank you...

See this for info on sharing contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express:

Earlier versions of Address Book gave you the option of using your Microsoft
Outlook Contacts folder in Outlook Express. If you accepted this option,
Address Book became a front end to Outlook, visible in Outlook Express and
any other applications that used Address Book. Contacts added via Outlook
thus became accessible to Outlook Express, and contacts added to Address
Book by means of Outlook Express options (such as Outlook Express’s option
to add the names of people you reply to via e-mail) became usable in
Outlook.

This integration with Outlook is still available in Address Book 6 (the
version shipped with Windows XP), but only via an undocumented registry
edit. To share contact information between Outlook and Address Book, open
Registry Editor, and go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4. Add the DWORD
value UseOutlook to this key (if it isn’t already present), and set it to 1.
To return to the unintegrated state, return to this registry value and
either delete it or set it to 0.

The tradeoff for integration between Outlook and Address Book is that it
precludes your using identities in Address Book. If you are using Outlook
integration and you display the Folders And Groups pane in Address Book, you
see the subfolders of your Outlook Contacts folder instead of your shared
contacts and personal contacts.

Copied from Microsoft WindowsXP/Inside Out
Microsoft Press by Ed Bott and Carl Siechert

--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
Please reply to newsgroup only.


"Stuff" Howie---NO wrote in message
...
I recently had to reformat and reinstall Windows XP (and all updates).

It used to be that my Outlook Express accessed the Outlook contact list, but
with the new reinstall, it does not.

How can I get OE to access the Outlook contacts again?

Thank you...

Thank you, Jim ... will check your solution out!!!!!

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
See this for info on sharing contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express:

Earlier versions of Address Book gave you the option of using your
Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder in Outlook Express. If you accepted this
option, Address Book became a front end to Outlook, visible in Outlook
Express and any other applications that used Address Book. Contacts added
via Outlook thus became accessible to Outlook Express, and contacts added
to Address Book by means of Outlook Express options (such as Outlook
Express’s option to add the names of people you reply to via e-mail)
became usable in Outlook.

This integration with Outlook is still available in Address Book 6 (the
version shipped with Windows XP), but only via an undocumented registry
edit. To share contact information between Outlook and Address Book, open
Registry Editor, and go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4. Add the DWORD
value UseOutlook to this key (if it isn’t already present), and set it to
1. To return to the unintegrated state, return to this registry value and
either delete it or set it to 0.

The tradeoff for integration between Outlook and Address Book is that it
precludes your using identities in Address Book. If you are using Outlook
integration and you display the Folders And Groups pane in Address Book,
you see the subfolders of your Outlook Contacts folder instead of your
shared contacts and personal contacts.

Copied from Microsoft WindowsXP/Inside Out
Microsoft Press by Ed Bott and Carl Siechert

--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
Please reply to newsgroup only.


"Stuff" Howie---NO wrote in message
...
I recently had to reformat and reinstall Windows XP (and all updates).

It used to be that my Outlook Express accessed the Outlook contact list,
but with the new reinstall, it does not.

How can I get OE to access the Outlook contacts again?

Thank you...