You have Outlook 2000 installed on your Vista computer?
Outlook 2000 is not Vista compatible. It causes significant conflict with
Vista's contacts.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"BruceBr" <BruceBr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6B9DBBAE-90A9-4386-ACAE-7483034D0C6F@microsoft.com...
> True enough. But apparently it looks for an Address Book and uses those
> Contacts for email lookup. Before I reinstalled Vista, I exported my Outlook
> contacts and imported them as Vista Contacts. Then I could look up those
> email addresses in Outlook2000.
>
> All I know is it was working this time too until today. Now Contacts
> doesn't work even in the Contacts folder. And Outlook2000 won't send out an
> email with a valid address since Contacts broke down.
>
> BTW, I used a Restore point prior to the last email I sent out successfully.
> Restore worked fine. But Contacts still doesn't work. Something broke in
> Vista Contacts. Can't say what tho.
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> Outlook doesnt use the Mail Contacts
>>
>