how can I restore a contact in my outlook express contact list that I inadvertantly deleted?

Did you create a backup previously per:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670?How to back up and to restore Outlook Express dataor a backup of the disk? You may want to ask this in the Windows Forum as this is for Exchange clients:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itproxpsp/threads

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