You don't need to reinstall. Go to File | Identities and set up a new
Identity. Also see points 2 and 3 here www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx and
point 4 for recovering messages.

For the address book, search for *.wab or *~* (for the backup).

steve

"Zap Eagle" wrote in message
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Overnight, outlook Express 6 seemed to have failed in these two areas for
no
reason. First, the address book disappeared
and indicates that it is not installed. Second, outlook express 6
receives
email, but will not send. Trying to do so (send) a message
pops up saying that outlook express is not configured correctly and to
reinstall. How does one reinstall outlook express 6 and will
I loose the emails that are in outlook?

Thanks