Restoring Outlook Express Address Book

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Andrew - 27 Apr 2005 04:29 GMT

Is it possible to restore the Outlook Express Address Book from a file
somewhere on the hard drive? I know you can do this with the emails that are
stored in .dbx files.

Reason being Win98 has crashed on my PC and I need to reinstall it, but want
to be able to restore my Address Book and Emails from OE. Obviously I cannot
boot into Windows to backup everything properly.

Is the same possible to restore dial-up networking settings from a file
somewhere on the hard drive?

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE - 27 Apr 2005 17:14 GMT

> Is it possible to restore the Outlook Express Address Book from a file
> somewhere on the hard drive? I know you can do this with the emails that
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> Is the same possible to restore dial-up networking settings from a file
> somewhere on the hard drive?

The Address Book entries are stored in an *.wab file, usually, for Win98,
somewhere in the c:\Windows tree. Maybe in Application Data or in the same
folder for your User Profile. ( haven't seen a Win98 machine for a couple
years.)

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