Trying to get my brother's brand new PC up and running good.

Dell Demension 3000
Win XP home w/SP2
512 mb RAM
80 gb HDD
IE & OE
Firefox
Ad-Aware $ Spybot
Trend-Micro AV
Comcast ISP

When Comcast did their install for him they set up an initial email account
on their site with a password that was anything but secure. So the first
thing I did when I got to his place was to signon to Comcast and change that
password to something more secure. We then opened OE and its wizard came up
to set up the account in OE. When you got to the screen where you enter the
user id and password it would not let us enter anything in the password field
nor check the box saying remember my password. As a result each time you
brought up OE you had to re-enter the password. Checked on Microsoft's site
and found they have a problem like this sometimes and the fix is to use
regedit. Not knowing XP and definitely not wanting to run regedit I set up a
new account on Comcast and a new identity in OE. All worked well including
the password field. I set up several other accounts, one for his wife and a
junk account all successfully. Here is where the problem comes in. Which ever
identity you are in when you look at the address book it lists 2 contact
groups. one called "Shared Contacts" and the other is " 'Identity Name"
Contacts". When ever you do a reply to an email it adds the email address to
the 'Identity Name' Contacts list. No option is provided to let you store it
in the 'Shared Contacts' list. So when you switch to a different identity and
look at the address book, that email address is not in there. According to MS
this can be corrected by selecting Tools -> Options within the address book
and set it to the shared option. The problem is within his address book when
you click on Tools, there is no entry for "Options" listed. It has all of the
other menu picks except the Options function. Anyone have any idea how to
correct this so that I can set it up to have a single address book for all of
the identities defined?

Sorry for the long post but I wanted to provide as much info as possible.

Tom

Hi Tom,

The shared contacts option you refer to was for sharing contacts with
Microsoft Outlook. It is no longer included in the latest versions of
Outlook Express. I know of no way to automatically add new contacts to the
Windows Address Book (used by OE) Shared Contacts folder. Contacts can be
moved or copied to the Shared Contacts folder, or created in the Shared
Contacts folder manually.

Someone may have an idea for setting-up the accounts differently or another
means to allow for more shared information.

--
Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MS-MVP - Outlook Express
Lynnwood, WA
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"twoshoes" <twoshoes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8AF00B11-54E6-4ADF-87C3-4D915533E576@microsoft.com...
Trying to get my brother's brand new PC up and running good.

Dell Demension 3000
Win XP home w/SP2
512 mb RAM
80 gb HDD
IE & OE
Firefox
Ad-Aware $ Spybot
Trend-Micro AV
Comcast ISP

When Comcast did their install for him they set up an initial email account
on their site with a password that was anything but secure. So the first
thing I did when I got to his place was to signon to Comcast and change that
password to something more secure. We then opened OE and its wizard came up
to set up the account in OE. When you got to the screen where you enter the
user id and password it would not let us enter anything in the password
field
nor check the box saying remember my password. As a result each time you
brought up OE you had to re-enter the password. Checked on Microsoft's site
and found they have a problem like this sometimes and the fix is to use
regedit. Not knowing XP and definitely not wanting to run regedit I set up a
new account on Comcast and a new identity in OE. All worked well including
the password field. I set up several other accounts, one for his wife and a
junk account all successfully. Here is where the problem comes in. Which
ever
identity you are in when you look at the address book it lists 2 contact
groups. one called "Shared Contacts" and the other is " 'Identity Name"
Contacts". When ever you do a reply to an email it adds the email address to
the 'Identity Name' Contacts list. No option is provided to let you store it
in the 'Shared Contacts' list. So when you switch to a different identity
and
look at the address book, that email address is not in there. According to
MS
this can be corrected by selecting Tools -> Options within the address book
and set it to the shared option. The problem is within his address book when
you click on Tools, there is no entry for "Options" listed. It has all of
the
other menu picks except the Options function. Anyone have any idea how to
correct this so that I can set it up to have a single address book for all
of
the identities defined?

Sorry for the long post but I wanted to provide as much info as possible.

Tom

"twoshoes" <twoshoes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8AF00B11-54E6-4ADF-87C3-4D915533E576@microsoft.com...
> Trying to get my brother's brand new PC up and running good.
>
> Dell Demension 3000
> Win XP home w/SP2
> 512 mb RAM
> 80 gb HDD
> IE & OE
> Firefox
> Ad-Aware $ Spybot
> Trend-Micro AV
> Comcast ISP
>
> When Comcast did their install for him they set up an initial email
> account
> on their site with a password that was anything but secure. So the first
> thing I did when I got to his place was to signon to Comcast and change
> that
> password to something more secure. We then opened OE and its wizard came
> up
> to set up the account in OE. When you got to the screen where you enter
> the
> user id and password it would not let us enter anything in the password
> field
> nor check the box saying remember my password. As a result each time you
> brought up OE you had to re-enter the password. Checked on Microsoft's
> site
> and found they have a problem like this sometimes and the fix is to use
> regedit. Not knowing XP and definitely not wanting to run regedit I set up
> a
> new account on Comcast and a new identity in OE. All worked well including
> the password field. I set up several other accounts, one for his wife and
> a
> junk account all successfully. Here is where the problem comes in. Which
> ever
> identity you are in when you look at the address book it lists 2 contact
> groups. one called "Shared Contacts" and the other is " 'Identity Name"
> Contacts". When ever you do a reply to an email it adds the email address
> to
> the 'Identity Name' Contacts list. No option is provided to let you store
> it
> in the 'Shared Contacts' list. So when you switch to a different identity
> and
> look at the address book, that email address is not in there. According to
> MS
> this can be corrected by selecting Tools -> Options within the address
> book
> and set it to the shared option. The problem is within his address book
> when
> you click on Tools, there is no entry for "Options" listed. It has all of
> the
> other menu picks except the Options function. Anyone have any idea how to
> correct this so that I can set it up to have a single address book for all
> of
> the identities defined?
>
> Sorry for the long post but I wanted to provide as much info as possible.
>
> Tom

Have a look here:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm

The option you found for sharing is for sharing with Outlook98/2000.

What you need to do is while signed on to the identity is open the
address book, make sure View, Folders and Groups is checked, then drag
the contacts on the right pane into the Share Contacts folder on the
left pane.

There's no way to make the contacts automatically add to the Shared
Contacts

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"twoshoes" <twoshoes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8AF00B11-54E6-4ADF-87C3-4D915533E576@microsoft.com...
> Trying to get my brother's brand new PC up and running good.
>
> Dell Demension 3000
> Win XP home w/SP2
> 512 mb RAM
> 80 gb HDD
> IE & OE
> Firefox
> Ad-Aware $ Spybot
> Trend-Micro AV
> Comcast ISP
>
> When Comcast did their install for him they set up an initial email
> account
> on their site with a password that was anything but secure. So the
> first
> thing I did when I got to his place was to signon to Comcast and
> change that
> password to something more secure. We then opened OE and its wizard
> came up
> to set up the account in OE. When you got to the screen where you
> enter the
> user id and password it would not let us enter anything in the
> password field
> nor check the box saying remember my password. As a result each time
> you
> brought up OE you had to re-enter the password. Checked on Microsoft's
> site
> and found they have a problem like this sometimes and the fix is to
> use
> regedit. Not knowing XP and definitely not wanting to run regedit I
> set up a
> new account on Comcast and a new identity in OE. All worked well
> including
> the password field. I set up several other accounts, one for his wife
> and a
> junk account all successfully. Here is where the problem comes in.
> Which ever
> identity you are in when you look at the address book it lists 2
> contact
> groups. one called "Shared Contacts" and the other is " 'Identity
> Name"
> Contacts". When ever you do a reply to an email it adds the email
> address to
> the 'Identity Name' Contacts list. No option is provided to let you
> store it
> in the 'Shared Contacts' list. So when you switch to a different
> identity and
> look at the address book, that email address is not in there.
> According to MS
> this can be corrected by selecting Tools -> Options within the address
> book
> and set it to the shared option. The problem is within his address
> book when
> you click on Tools, there is no entry for "Options" listed. It has all
> of the
> other menu picks except the Options function. Anyone have any idea how
> to
> correct this so that I can set it up to have a single address book for
> all of
> the identities defined?
>
> Sorry for the long post but I wanted to provide as much info as
> possible.
>
> Tom