How to Back Up or Copy Your Outlook Express Address Book

[Matrix316]

Does any one know How to Back Up or Copy Outlook Express Address Book. Any folder where i can copy all this contact. Any recommendations and suggestions are appreciated.

[Macarenas]

To Back Up the Outlook Express Address Book follow this step :

• Copy the .wab file to another folder. If you copy the .wab file to another folder, you do not need to change the file name: Quit Outlook Express.
• Create a new folder to store the .wab file in. For example:
• C:\Backup
• For information about how to create a folder, click Start, click Help, click the Index tab, type new folder, and then double-click the New Folders topic.
• Locate the .wab file. To do so, click Start, point to Find, and then click Files Or Folders.
• In the Named box, type *.wab, and then click Find Now.
• Copy the username.wab file to the folder that you created in step 2, where username is the name or alias of the Outlook Express user that the .wab file belongs to.

[vishodhan]

Outlook Express is e-mail program that is included with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Outlook Express stores contacts in a Microsoft Windows Address Book file with an extension of .wab. The name of the file is based on your Windows logon name. For example, user may have a Windows logon name of lorik, and her Windows Address Book file would be user.wab. This file is saved at C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book.

[JonathanD]

Presto Transfer Outlook Express is an application designed to help automate the transferral of your Outlook Express address book from one computer to another. Once installed Presto Transfer's easy to use wizard interface creates a self-extracting transfer archive of your data which can be restored by simply running it on the destination computer. The transfer archive can be automatically burned to CD/DVD, written to a USB MP3 player, a removable drive, or simply shared across a network.

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