Lost Contacts After Corrupted Windows User

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masouder - 14 Nov 2006 16:36 GMT

My main Windows user became corrupted and I had to create a new user and
reconfigure a lot of things in Windows. I use Outlook Express for email and
Outlook for contacts. I was able to reconfigure everything, but I cannot get
access to my contacts list.

Can anyone explain how I can recover my contacts (which I assume are still
there somewhere) in Outlook.

Thanks!

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Brian Tillman - 14 Nov 2006 20:06 GMT

> My main Windows user became corrupted and I had to create a new user
> and reconfigure a lot of things in Windows. I use Outlook Express
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> Can anyone explain how I can recover my contacts (which I assume are
> still there somewhere) in Outlook.

They are most likely in the other Windows user profile in the (hidden)
folder C:\Documents and Settings\olduser\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\something.PST, where "olduser" is your previous
username and "something" is whatever you named the file when you created it.
If that folder is gone, then you've deleted your old data.

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