Vista and Office2000

[hugh welford]

Hi,

Just bought new laptop with Vista Home Premium and have installed Office
2000.Outlook has a problem with Windows Address book when trying to send
mail or inport addresses, i.e. cannot find WAB.dll (looks like i must have
over written a later Outlook already installed - how is this possible with
latest and greatest O/S?)

Access gives VirtualBasic Compilation error - cant find project or library
when trying to resolve references.

Is there anything that can be done to rectify these problems (e.g.copy
across the .dll files from WIN XPPro where everything works fine), or is it
a basic unresolvable office2000/Vista incompatibility?

Thanks in advance

Hugh

 

[Mellowed]

This is easily resolvable.

Use Explorer to navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
Copy wab32.dll and wab32res.dll to C:\Windows\System32
or http://miniburb.wordpress.com/outlook-2000-on-vista/
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

 

[hugh welford]

thanks a lot

hugh

This is easily resolvable.

Use Explorer to navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
Copy wab32.dll and wab32res.dll to C:\Windows\System32
or http://miniburb.wordpress.com/outlook-2000-on-vista/
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

 

[Guest]

Microsoft does not claim that Office 2000 is compatible with VISTA, however
some people have gotten it to work, partly. See this site for Outlook issues.
Try Googling for access issues.

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista_wab.htm

 

[Peter Foldes]

Check this out
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

Also

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087/en-us

 

[Peter Foldes]

Paul

Wrong

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087/en-us

 

[Guest]

I stand corrected, however this statement says it all.
"Because Office 2000 and Office XP are in Extended Support, there have been
no fixes for issues that occur when these products are run on Windows Vista".

 

[Bjorn Opland]

This is a small problem compared to the problem that vista will not give
outlook2002 access to the email addresses stored in outlook2002. Every
minute a window pops up asking for letting a program (outlook2002) have
access to the outlook2002 email addresses. Solution suggested by microsoft:
buy outlook2007.

B. Opland

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

From the following website.

Slipstick Systems Exchange and Outlook Solutions Center:
http://www.slipstick.com/

<quote>
Outlook and Vista
Which versions of Outlook work with Vista?

Outlook 2007, naturally, along with Outlook 2003.

Outlook 2000 in Internet only mode (IMO) loads but the address book does not
work - it needs the Windows Address Book files (wab.dll), which is not found
in Vista. Corporate mode seems to work fine in my limited tests, once you
get past the Outlook Start Up screen and verify it should be the default
mail client. (This dialog comes up every time I restart Outlook.) Either
switch to Corporate mode or upgrade to Outlook 2007. Vista's Mail and
Calendar applications are viable alternatives to Outlook for many home
users.

Don't look for Microsoft to release patches to fix any issues that may come
up with Outlook2002 and older, as they are all well past their mainstream
support lifecycle.
</quote>

 

[Mellowed]

wab.dll is found in Vista.

Use Explorer to navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
Copy wab32.dll and wab32res.dll to C:\Windows\System32