Also what version of MS Office do you have installed? It appears Outlook 2000 corruopts Contacts in Vista
Word 97.
The only one I could load for no charge at the time, and still don't like any of the so called 'improvements' , so I'm happy to stick with the devil I know.
Could be the problem, tho' but I think (?) when I first got this laptop about 5 years ago it all worked as previously, this quirk seems to be a recent one.
I'll try the registry thing,
Thanks.