Windows Address Book should be on every system, but I don't know how to access it. However, if the user doesn't use Outlook Express, WAB won't help. There's no single place to query to get an email address.

>Thanks Craig.
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>I wonder why CDO is on my system? I have office (97 - the corporate discounted license:-). I may have downloaded it for a project years ago - I do remember downloading CDOEX - but cannot remeber if I installed it.
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>Are you aware of another place or object in XP that would "cough' up an email address.
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>Any issues regarding WNetGetUser in Win32API? Would a "firewall" program prevent my project from using "him" to get the user name (I don't know if it's an issue)?
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>Maybe I should just lry the user enter this stuff and quit trying to find a default value.
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>Thanks.