Thanks Russ for the reply...but the problem is that I couldn't set the
dialing location either from Outlook or Control Panel because there was
nothing in the country list. So, after considerable time last night,
here's
what I did to fix it:
I finally tracked down the registry location for the drop-down list
values.
Countries are listed there by country code ranging from 1 to 998 so what I
did was create a duplicate entry for 998 (Uzbekistan) at code 999. This,
believe it or not, fixed the problem. I now have 2 entries for
Uzbekistan
in my list and at the top are a couple of junk entries that don't seem to
actually exist in the registry.
It's pretty obvious that the list in the registry is somehow corrupt but I
don't know how to fix it except with this hack. I tried a WinXP Repair, a
Win Office repair/update and also just installing/re-installing a couple
of
Accessories but nothing else worked.
Since I'm not using a modem or dialing, none of this would be critical
except that Outlook insists on having a country set up to even add a phone
number. This really shouldn't break the application in my opinion but it
does.
For anyone with the same problem the registry location is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\Country
List
And if anyone knows how to rebuild the list without having to use this
registry trick, please chime in.
Hope this helps
Russ Valentine said:
Have you selected the correct country? Did you set your dialing location
correctly for your operating system?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
jaffa said:
I am unable to select a country/region because none are available.
This,
in
turn, hangs the program and I have to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to get out.
This
is
WinXP and the overall Region Setting in control panel is available and
correct. Anyone know a fix?
