This is narrowing it down. A limited user cannot open the address book
while the Administrator can. The MS KB seems to address it here,
although this looks to be for Win 98/OE4:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269778/en-us
I get an error:
"The Address Book file has been locked by another application. Please
close the other application and try again later."
I followed the instructions for repair but it didn't change anything
though and upon reboot, the read-only attributes which I had unchecked
during the repair were marked again.
FYI, when reinstalling OE, there were no prompts for choices.
Thanks for your help and I'm still game to try anything else.
Thanks,
Richard P.
Andy Gallant wrote:
offlist
seems weird - can you run Start > All Programs > Accessories > Address
Book all by itself? can you do so as a limited user?
when you reinstalled oe, were you offered any choices? (some programs
ask if they should be for just the one user or for all users).
otherwise, i'm stumped (and i'm not an expert). sorry. good luck.
-andy
Richard P. wrote:
Well, I'm making progress. Tried all suggestions w/o success but
found the root of the issue accidentally during the process. Outlook
Express 6 only works when the user has administrative rights. OE6
gives error the messages when trying to use it as a limited user. I
have been able to reproduce this consistently.
Has anyone ever heard of this and is there a solution/setting I am
missing or is this a bug? FYI, I was able to uninstall/reinstall OE
so that is not the issue. Also, I understand that while I could run
OE as an administrator, that would not be the safe thing to do
(viruses, spyware, oh my).
Thanks,
Richard
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