Migrated Outlook 2003 to 2007 on new PC and now Address Book hosed

I migrated my XP professional settings to Vista professional (I know I know!)
and when I create an Outlook (Enterprised ed.) email, the To list is empty.
Drop down Address Book list is empty. When I click Advanced Find I get modal
dialog "The search cannot be completed. Tou must have an address list to
search in. If you don't have an address list contact your Microsoft Exchange
admin." I don't have Microsoft Exchange. Under Tools/Account
Settings/Address Book I have Outlook Address Book MAPI but Remove is
disabled. Under Contacts Folder under Properties, Outlook Address Book tab,
the "Show this folder email address book" check box is disabled. I have
uninstalled the product and reinstalled it - no luck. The registry has evil
stuff. I tried renaming my C:\Users\...\outlook directory,
uninstalled/reinstalled and then Outlook wouldn't run - again the evil
registry entries "remembering" the wrong stuff.

So now I'm at my wit's end. The only option I see is to reload windows from
scratch to get a clean registry - unless someone can help me figure out how
to activate the "show this folder" button. Any help would be appreciated.

Russ
Sat Mar 15 16:04:57 PDT 2008

Do not multipost.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Watchman" <Watchman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6D708AB0-962C-40BB-9E5D-DA55A151F05B@microsoft.com...
>I migrated my XP professional settings to Vista professional (I know I
>know!)
> and when I create an Outlook (Enterprised ed.) email, the To list is
> empty.
> Drop down Address Book list is empty. When I click Advanced Find I get
> modal
> dialog "The search cannot be completed. Tou must have an address list to
> search in. If you don't have an address list contact your Microsoft
> Exchange
> admin." I don't have Microsoft Exchange. Under Tools/Account
> Settings/Address Book I have Outlook Address Book MAPI but Remove is
> disabled. Under Contacts Folder under Properties, Outlook Address Book
> tab,
> the "Show this folder email address book" check box is disabled. I have
> uninstalled the product and reinstalled it - no luck. The registry has
> evil
> stuff. I tried renaming my C:\Users\...\outlook directory,
> uninstalled/reinstalled and then Outlook wouldn't run - again the evil
> registry entries "remembering" the wrong stuff.
>
> So now I'm at my wit's end. The only option I see is to reload windows
> from
> scratch to get a clean registry - unless someone can help me figure out
> how
> to activate the "show this folder" button. Any help would be appreciated.

DL
Sat Mar 15 17:42:00 PDT 2008

Assuming you dont use Exchange, use the mail applet in the control panel to
create a new profile, correctly configure your account, add the data file &
accounts
Uninstalling / reinstalling OL has no affect on an incorrectly configured
profile or its data

"Watchman" <Watchman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6D708AB0-962C-40BB-9E5D-DA55A151F05B@microsoft.com...
>I migrated my XP professional settings to Vista professional (I know I
>know!)
> and when I create an Outlook (Enterprised ed.) email, the To list is
> empty.
> Drop down Address Book list is empty. When I click Advanced Find I get
> modal
> dialog "The search cannot be completed. Tou must have an address list to
> search in. If you don't have an address list contact your Microsoft
> Exchange
> admin." I don't have Microsoft Exchange. Under Tools/Account
> Settings/Address Book I have Outlook Address Book MAPI but Remove is
> disabled. Under Contacts Folder under Properties, Outlook Address Book
> tab,
> the "Show this folder email address book" check box is disabled. I have
> uninstalled the product and reinstalled it - no luck. The registry has
> evil
> stuff. I tried renaming my C:\Users\...\outlook directory,
> uninstalled/reinstalled and then Outlook wouldn't run - again the evil
> registry entries "remembering" the wrong stuff.
>
> So now I'm at my wit's end. The only option I see is to reload windows
> from
> scratch to get a clean registry - unless someone can help me figure out
> how
> to activate the "show this folder" button. Any help would be appreciated.