Guest ssg31415926 Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Hi I want to set up a Start Menu item to search for people (a la Windows 2000). A bit of digging reveals that Start > Run wab /find will work. But wab doesn't exist as an executable on my system and the command wab /find won't run from e.g. a command prompt. I guess Microsoft have done something to make it work from Start > Run. Does anyone know what they've done (I like to understand these things) and how I can use it in a shortcut? Thanks in advance SSG
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: Why does wab /find work from Start > Run but nowhere else? "ssg31415926" <newsjunkmail@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186414836.836445.121740@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > Hi > > I want to set up a Start Menu item to search for people (a la Windows > 2000). A bit of digging reveals that Start > Run wab /find will > work. But wab doesn't exist as an executable on my system and the > command wab /find won't run from e.g. a command prompt. > I guess Microsoft have done something to make it work from Start > > Run. > > Does anyone know what they've done (I like to understand these things) > and how I can use it in a shortcut? > > Thanks in advance > > SSG > Wab.exe (Windows Address Book) is an Outlook Express tool. It usually resides in "c:\program files\Outlook Express". If OE is installed on your PC then creating a shortcut to "c:\program files\Outlook Express\wab.exe" will work equally well on Win2000 and on WinXP. If you have specific questions about wab.exe and its switches then you should post them in an Outlook Express newsgroup.
Guest David Webb Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: Why does wab /find work from Start > Run but nowhere else? Try this at the command prompt or in a batch file: start wab /find "ssg31415926" <newsjunkmail@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186414836.836445.121740@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > Hi > > I want to set up a Start Menu item to search for people (a la Windows > 2000). A bit of digging reveals that Start > Run wab /find will > work. But wab doesn't exist as an executable on my system and the > command wab /find won't run from e.g. a command prompt. > I guess Microsoft have done something to make it work from Start > > Run. > > Does anyone know what they've done (I like to understand these things) > and how I can use it in a shortcut? > > Thanks in advance > > SSG >
Guest Tom Porterfield Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: Why does wab /find work from Start > Run but nowhere else? ssg31415926 wrote: > Hi > > I want to set up a Start Menu item to search for people (a la Windows > 2000). A bit of digging reveals that Start > Run wab /find will > work. But wab doesn't exist as an executable on my system and the > command wab /find won't run from e.g. a command prompt. > I guess Microsoft have done something to make it work from Start > > Run. > > Does anyone know what they've done (I like to understand these things) > and how I can use it in a shortcut? > > Thanks in advance wab.exe is an executable. It works from run as that uses the AppPaths key in the registry to determine the location of the exe, whereas command line and shortcut just use the path environment. Wab.exe should be found at c:\program files\outlook express\wab.exe. Point your shortcut to that location and it should work fine. -- Tom Porterfield
Guest Peter Foldes Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: Why does wab /find work from Start > Run but nowhere else? Applies to XP also http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista_wab.htm -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "ssg31415926" <newsjunkmail@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186414836.836445.121740@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > Hi > > I want to set up a Start Menu item to search for people (a la Windows > 2000). A bit of digging reveals that Start > Run wab /find will > work. But wab doesn't exist as an executable on my system and the > command wab /find won't run from e.g. a command prompt. > I guess Microsoft have done something to make it work from Start > > Run. > > Does anyone know what they've done (I like to understand these things) > and how I can use it in a shortcut? > > Thanks in advance > > SSG >
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