Russ,

Not to sound peevish, as you are free to disagree about these things, but to
many people, Windows Calendar, Windows Contacts, WordPad, and a dozen other
components are bloat once MS Office is installed. I might make an exception
for Windows Mail, simply because it's a good newsgroup reader, but even there
I have doubts: If you look in the registry entry for Windows Mail in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, it has a subkey called "Outlook NewsReader," which could
suggest that MS has finally put the superior newsreader functionality that
was in the old Outlook Express (now Windows Mail) into Outlook 2007 itself,
in which case, Windows Mail is certainly superfluous too.

You've heard this a million times, and it shouldn't be a surprise to get a
question like this: The apps mentioned above aren't "core" components of
Windows. They're "redundant" components, and it's frankly very annoying that
MS has paternalistic practices like preventing users from uninstalling these
redundant components. It makes even less sense when MS itself is the provider
for the replacement apps found in Office.

Anyway, enough nit-picking. Yes, I'll take this to the Vista forum. Your
first post answered the question amply, so thanks again.

a.k.a.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Why do you need to remove a core component of the OS? If for some reason you
think you really need to, you should ask in a Vista group, not an Outlook
group.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"a.k.a." wrote in message
...

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
...

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.