Russ, that's precisely the point. I want to get rid of Windows Contacts &
Windows Calendar, because they become superfluous when Outlook is installed.
Unfortunately, there's no other way to do so unless you go into the registry
-- in Vista there's no longer the sysoc.INF file edit as there was in XP that
would "reveal" these components to Remove Programs so that they can be
removed more easily.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Outlook has nothing to do with either Windows Contacts or Windows Calendar.
It is not clear from your post what you want to accomplish, nor why you
think you need to edit the registry to do so. Outlook will handle these
tasks by default unless you set your Default Programs otherwise.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"a.k.a." wrote in message
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Hello all,

My understanding is that there ARE ways in the registry of disabling /
turning off some of the Vista components that are outmoded by an install
of
MS Office, such as Calendar and Contacts.

For Calendar, for instance, you browse to...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Windows

...and create a DWORD value called TurnOffWinCal (for WinCal.exe), and set
it to 1.

There's probably a similar way to disable Contacts, but I may have to wade
through the subfolders of Windows\Winsxs in order to find the name of the
EXE.

The question is, has Office 2007 been built in such a way that Contacts or
Business Contact Manager in Outlook 2007 sit atop the preexisting Windows
Contacts component of Vista? Or can Contacts be safely disabled without
consequence to the corresponding Outlook components?

The same question applies to Windows Calendar....

Best wishes,

a.k.a.