Free way to clean outlook contacts duplicates

Hello,

there are a lot of tools to remove duplicates outlook contacts but they are all (from what I looked) either free and do not work or work but costs money.

I found a free way to clean those duplicates.

1. Download GO Contact Sync Mod
2. Create or use a Gmail account for the settings of the program
3. Sync all the contacts to Gmail by selecting the "Outlook to Google Only" setting option
4. In Gmail go to contacts and then use the duplicate tool to clean the duplicates
5. Sync all the contacts back to Outlook by selecting the "Google to Outlook Only" setting option (making sure that "Sync Deletion" is selected)

That's it, you are free from duplicated...

Snir

change outlook cache mode in batch script

Hi,

Just a small thing I wrote to change the user outlook mode to cached.
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rem *** get the profile name ***
FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims= " %%A IN ('reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles" /v DefaultProfile') DO set profile=%%C

rem *** query if Outlook is in cache mode ***
reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\%profile%\13dbb0c8aa05101a9bb000aa002fc45a" /v 00036601 |find "84010000"
if errorlevel 0 goto end

rem *** change outlook to cache mode ***
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\%profile%\13dbb0c8aa05101a9bb000aa002fc45a" /v 00036601 /t REG_BINARY /d 84010000 /f

:end

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for XP machines the first step did work fine so I wrote a small VB to replace it:

The VB (save it as read.vbs):
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Option Explicit
Dim Temp

Temp = ReadReg("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\DefaultProfile")
WScript.Echo Temp

Function ReadReg(RegPath)
     Dim objRegistry, Key
     Set objRegistry = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
     Key = objRegistry.RegRead(RegPath)
     ReadReg = Key
End Function
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The corrected CMD:
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set profile=
rem *** get the profile name ***
FOR /F "Delims=" %%A IN ('cscript /nologo read.vbs') DO set profile=%%A
echo "Profile: " %profile%

rem *** query if Outlook is in cache mode ***
reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\%profile%\13dbb0c8aa05101a9bb000aa002fc45a" /v 00036601 |find "84010000"
if %errorlevel%==0 goto end

rem *** change outlook to cache mode ***
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\%profile%\13dbb0c8aa05101a9bb000aa002fc45a" /v 00036601 /t REG_BINARY /d 84010000 /f

:end

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Enjoy