Address book and Explorere

[peter fitton]

1. Can anybody tell me where the Address Book stores its
data?Recently I have had several crashes due to a piece
of malfunctioning hardware. In future I would like to be
able to back it up.

2. In XP is there anyway to permanently get rid of that
blue panel on the left hand side so that you can stay in
Explorer mode all the time?

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4\Wab File Name

The Default value in the right pane will show you where your WAB file is
located.

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
Associate Expert
ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
--------------------------------
Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

"peter fitton" > wrote in message
...
> 1. Can anybody tell me where the Address Book stores its
> data?Recently I have had several crashes due to a piece
> of malfunctioning hardware. In future I would like to be
> able to back it up.
>
> 2. In XP is there anyway to permanently get rid of that
> blue panel on the left hand side so that you can stay in
> Explorer mode all the time?

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

"peter fitton" > wrote in message

> 1. Can anybody tell me where the Address Book stores its
> data?Recently I have had several crashes due to a piece
> of malfunctioning hardware. In future I would like to be
> able to back it up.
>
> 2. In XP is there anyway to permanently get rid of that
> blue panel on the left hand side so that you can stay in
> Explorer mode all the time?

Open the Address Book.
In the Address Book click Help | About and OE will tell you the location and
name of the file it is using.
If it does not then it is set to share Outlook's Contacts. Click Tools (in
the Address Book) and undo that option (if you wish to).

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com