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368390 2005-07-01 00:40:00 I have a colleague who cannot place more than 10 addresses into subfolders in the OE address book. In fact I suspect that this applies to the Main Identity Contacts too because she says she has 10 address folders to cover 100 people.

The IT people involved don't know either. XP has been reinstalled twice (so I believe), 18 month old machine.

Any clues?
Winston001 (3612)
368391 2005-07-01 05:29:00 I believe Metla has a 2 step quick fix .

1) Give him money .
2) He gives you a new computer .

If you encounter any problems just repeat the 2 step quick fix .


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Back up the address book, do a search for the address book "* . wab" and move it away to a different directory .
Go back to OE and look at the address book, it should be empty . See if you can add more than 10per folder .

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See if there are any updates for IE and OE .

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Switch to Thunderbird .

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You could scan for spyware/virus .
Rob99 (151)
368392 2005-07-01 06:04:00 I'm sure Metla will be happy to hear of more business . :thumbs:

It sounds virus-like but this machine has apparently been checked by a computer business which I assume is competent .

Thanks for the suggestion Rob, and I'll see what can be done .


Oops - wrong forum . :badpc:
Winston001 (3612)
368393 2005-07-01 10:47:00 Jim B would have sorted this in the wink of an eye. Cicero (40)
368394 2005-07-01 22:53:00 Try this Do a search for .wab on the computer when it is found rename it to wab.old and restart Outlook Express(OE). Once started, OE will create a new .WAB file
Have a look at these pages.
insideoe.tomsterdam.com
www.ieinfosite.co.uk
hth
johnboy (217)
368395 2005-07-02 00:15:00 It sounds virus-like but this machine has apparently been checked by a computer business which I assume is competent.Seriously, always assume that anyone that's serviced a computer is an incompetent fool who did nothing more than find "defrag" in the Start Menu, put an ad in the paper and called himself a tech.

Probably 80% of the time that assumption will hold true.
ninja (1671)
368396 2005-07-02 02:51:00 Seriously, always assume that anyone that's serviced a computer is an incompetent fool who did nothing more than find "defrag" in the Start Menu, put an ad in the paper and called himself a tech.

Probably 80% of the time that assumption will hold true.
and are you a tech who knows this for sure?
quarry (252)
368397 2005-07-02 03:13:00 Seriously, always assume that anyone that's serviced a computer is an incompetent fool who did nothing more than find "defrag" in the Start Menu, put an ad in the paper and called himself a tech.

Probably 80% of the time that assumption will hold true.

I'm beginning to think this might be true. For example this PC was starting up overnight. A mystery. I know very little but I'd have immediately checked hibernation and the modem. Sure enough, after a lot of investigation, it was the modem waking on a phone ring.

Thanks for the links John. I'll see what can be done.

Cheers
Winston
Winston001 (3612)
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