address book

[darmitage1215]

how do I get my address book back into my outlook express email off a floppy disc, please tell me in basic easy steps, also I have windows xp, if I'm posting in the wrong place tell me, I'm new

[ErnieK]

darmitage1215
Welcome to the forums.

The easiest way of getting your address book back in is as follows.

Open Outlook Express and go to FILE (on the bar at the top of the page).
Then scroll down to IMPORT

This will give you a few choices. Select Address Book. You will then have to point windows to your Floppy drive (either that or drag the saved file from the floppy into your My documnets folder and point to that instead) Now selct the required file and you are set up to go.

[Paul Komski]

The registry pointer for the AddressBook for the current user is:-
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4\Wab File Name]

You can import from another address book as indicated or place any address book wherever you want it and change the above registry entry to point to it.

[darmitage1215]

still having problems opening it when I come to the address part and click on floppy

[ErnieK]

Try Dragging the WAB file form the floppy into your My Documents folder and work from there.

[darmitage1215]

Please tell me, where do I click if I want to post a question but not a reply of a certain topic, in other words where do I go to post a question if its not about my address book, where do I click, I'm lost please help me thanks, hope I'm not doing anything wrong

[Paul Komski]

Click on the link "The PC Guide Discussion Forums (http://www.pcguide.com/vb/index.php?)" towards the top of each page and then select the forum (eg Storage) that is appropriate for your new thread. Then click on the "New Thread" button.

You can of course also bookmark the main page as one of your favorites and access it that way.

[darmitage1215]

after I click pc guide discussion forums, which one do I click to start a new question about my computer, which forum, thanks for your help! I am really enjoying this web site, just new on the computer

[Paul Komski]

If your question is to do with Storage choose Storage, if to do with Windows choose Windows, etc. Just choose an appropriate forum each of which has a summary describing the area it covers.