In addition to the contacts defined for Windows Mail, when I begin to type an addres in, say, the To line, Windows Maio offers suggestions of addresses that are NOT in the Contacts list.
How do I clear out that detritis?
How to clean up the temp files in Vista and what program is good to cleanup excess files so the computer runs better.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have had Vista for about a week. Still learning Win. Mail vs the old Outlook Express in XP. I have set up mail & Newsgroup accts. That seems ok. My quest. is why in Newsgroups
do I have to click *catch up* in order for the counter to clear? In OE they cleared when I went from newsgroup to newsgroup. Is this just the way WinMail works or did I miss a setting somewhere?
I am having problems importing contacts into Vista Contacts. I tried 2 things :
1/ LDIF
I exported my contacts in Thunderbird under an LDIF format.
I then imported this LDIF file within Contacts
The import stops 1/5 of the way, simply saying that there is an error
in the contacts, and it stays stuck
2/ CVS
I exported my contacts in Thunderbird under a CVS file. I then tried to import the file within Contacts but cannot do the mapping:
- all column headings are lumped together, with plenty of ","
- all accentuated caracters are replaced by squares
Also, with the LDIF method, 50 contacts out of 300 were imported. In these imported contacts, all accentuated caracters were replaced by symbols. I opened the CVS file in Microsoft Excel: everything is fine.
I installed Outlook 2003 on my computer which has Vista Ultimate so I could use a Dell Axim. Now when I go to fax a document using Windows Fax and Scan and try to select a contact, Outlook Contacts is displayed instead of Windows Contacts. It won't let me choose to use Windows Contacts either. I tried using Default Programs to associate Windows Contacts with it's defaults but that didn't work.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have set up a contact Group in Windows Contacts. Now I would like to go into that group and edit the lists of contacts. How do I do that? I cannot find a way to open that contact group to edit.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been trying for hours, now. My problem is that the contacts fields get all mixed up because they were outlook and them gmail, and now back to outlook 2007. But when I try to export them to Windows Vista Contacts I loose all information. My outlook 2007 is a trial version and will expire next time I turn it on, so I have to get it done today.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with the Vista program Windows Contacts in conjunction with using email programs. I have Windows Vista Home Premium. I like to use Outlook 2000 as my email program. I have the same problem if I use Windows Mail as my email program. I can use Outlook to send and receive email, but I cannot add any contacts to Windows Contacts. Also when creating a new email, if I click on the To… button to get to Windows Contacts, I get the error message “The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If this problem persists, restart Outlook.”, which of course does not help.
I am not sure, but I think I created the problem by importing Outlooks 2000 contacts from my old PC in an improper format into Outlook 2000 on my new Vista PC (which is where the problem is).
I've attempted to send my old contact list to 'Windows mail' but have not been successful at this point. What am I doing wrong?
View 8 Replies View RelatedIn windows outlook you could arrange your contacts so that a folder (family,
local friends, Veterans) etc. could be together and when you addressed the
email ...you could just select from one of your folders and address the mail.
NOW the folders don't show up and I have to select the addressee's from the
400 names in my contacts list.
to make groups for all of them...cause sometimes an email is only to a few
people in a folder.
I would like to import the contacts from my Gmail account to Windows Mail.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI cannot sort (list) contacts by Last name.
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust imported my contacts to win mail and some where in the process, they are now listed by first name, I know there is some place you change the way they are viewed so it is last name first, I can not find it now.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've imported my contacts file into Windows Mail but something funny is happening. When I am creating a message and am typing the first few letters of a contact's name, some names come up automatically just as they did in the Outlook but not all of them, although I those names are there on the contacts list. I can't figure out why. In order to add these names I have to go to Tools, Select Recipient and add their names to the TO field. Is there a way I can get Windows Mail to insert all contacts names automatically?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a client who wants to import a bunch of Excel data into Contacts in XP. Can I do this for him on a Vista PC, then save a wab file? Further to this, does Vista actually have a wab file?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy cmigrated contacts are a mess...When I click on "contacts" the list is sorted by first name. Next, I attempted to sort by 'last name' - the field for 'last name' is blank for most contacts DESPITE there being a first and last name on their contact card. Outlook Express was simple, intuitive and easy to customize. Windows Mail is cumbersome, slow and totally counter-intuitive as well as complicate as hell to customize.
1) How do I get the contacts list to reflect what is ACTUALLY on the contact cards: ie: First and last names
2) Can I switch back to Outlook Express with Vista?
How do I sort contacts by last name instead of the default first name in Vista? XP has a "sort by" option under the view pulldown, Vista programmers didn't think this was necessary, or the option is hidden someplace where I cant find it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedCan anybody assist me with deleting contacts - I have attempted to delete from the contacts in windows mail but the message windows explorer has stoped working appears and then closes the file down. I have also tried through the explorer but the same message appears.
View 5 Replies View Relatedwhen sending an email thru ie7, the contacts don't display when selecting the "to" box. using vista w/windows mail
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow can i get my contacts on my main screen the way that i had them on outlook.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI can get to the Contacts folder.
When I double-click on a Contact file, I get the popup -
Windows cannot open this file:
File: filename.contact
Asks me to use Wed Service or select program from list of installed programs.
Neither works. MS Web Services (amazingly) does not recognize .contact. And there's is no Contact program in the list of programs (or anywhere I can find on my machine).
When you send email in Windows mail with a group name with someone from that group in it, how do you remove their name so they don't get it again?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a rather odd situation, or at least for me, as I have never seen this problem before. The Contacts list in the To dropdown list in the Create mail windows does not match the Contacts list when I click on the Contacts icon on the toolbar of the WinMail window.
The names in the To list are listed with the last name first, which I never do, at least, not by intent. There are also names in the To list that are not in the correct Contacts list, and some that are in the correct Contacts list but not in the To list. There are some of the names from the Messenger that I never send emails to so I don't know how they are getting in that list. It really is irksome to start to send an email and click on the To tab in the email window and the name I want is not listed in that list, but, is in the regular Contacts list, I I have to type in the whole thing, or take the time to look up the name in the correct list and copy past the addy to the To bar in the email............
I don't know why im getting this extremily annoying problem, but i am. I have the contacts folder organised with all my contacts in it.. but every time i turn my laptop on another folder with the same name but the standard folder icon appears rite next 2 my contacts folder...and in the cloned 1 there is nothing in it!!! is there a way 2 prevent a certain folder from being created because guess wat? that ridiculas user account conrtol or watever it is is saying that i need permision 2 delete the cloned contacts folder!!! its my computer and i am the only 1 with an account and i dont have permision 2 delete a folder...plus on top of that user account conrtol is off!
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've read several comments regarding the problem I have found about using windows vista mail, all with the same result - no useful solution. Having just moved from Outlook Express, I am accustomed to using sub folders under contacts. I set up subfolders in Vista contacts but they do not show up when I wish to forward an email using "To:" to select members of a folder, ie "family"
How inconvenient to have to search through all 300 or so addresses to find the 5 or 6 I want to forward to. "Family" is mixed in with all the rest. Creating a group is inappropriate when I do not want to send to ALL addresses in a group. Any news on a correction to this problem?
Or, is it possible to import Outlook from my XP system to use on this new one? The "work arounds" I have seen suggested are rediculous - this seems a serious flaw in the product to me! Any news of an improvement with SP2? (I have SP1 preinstalled) So far I find Vista NOT user friendly! Each problem requires hours of research to discover there is no solution...:mad:
I have Vista 64bit with a Contacts folder which seems to be totaly impotent as far as exporting. According to the Vista Help it should be possible, but I do not have the Export button! Anyway, all I want to do is to synch my Vista contacts with the Contacts in my phone running Windows Mobile 6.1.
What Microsoft suggests is to buy Outlook, import the contacts into it from the Vista Contacts folder, and upload them into the phone. I tried it with trial Outlook and it works. But I don't need Outlook for anything else, and don't want to buy it. Is there a workaround?
Whenever I click on the 'contacts' icon in Windows Mail, instead of taking me to a screen to manage my contacts (like the help screen says it will), it shows me the contents of the contacts file. Why is it
doing this? I just want to create a contact group (distrib. list).
my windows contacts used to wrok, like i had the option of adding contacts n all.. now there is just nothing, cant add contacts or antyhing. I can still see the contacts i added before, and when i double click it i can edit te info, but thats it. Not even the contact info comes up on the right side of the folder like it used to when u jus single click the contact. I duno if it was something do with i had hidden folders shown for a while (which i turned back off) but when i did hav it on.. some weird live messenger contact things were in the folder also, which was my email as the folder, and all these messenger files inside.
View 8 Replies View RelatedThere is no icon for adding or removing a person's picture in my contacts folder, and yet Windows Help and Support says, "You can add pictures to your contacts, making it easier to identify and remember people when you look up their contact information. Windows adds a default image for each contact, which you can change to any picture or graphic you want." I do not have a "change picture" or "remove picture" icon.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhen I use my Windows Mail (Vista) there are a few of my contacts that will 'auto complete' but not all of them. I have the setting set properly, and some work. I have about five that begin with "J" and only one of them will auto complete. On the others I have to type the entire address.
I'm new to the Forum so I hope I'm doing this correctly. Anyway, initially I was trying to create a mailing group, but could not see a choice for that option in my Contacts folder. Turns out it was set on "Pictures and Videos" and I read, in this Forum, how to fix that so it would show my list of contacts, and would therefore show the choice for setting up a group. That worked fine. My problem is - my changes don't seem to want to stay! For instance, today I was working in my picture folders, and then when I went back into Windows Mail and clicked on Contacts, it was back to showing "Pictures and Videos!" Why won't it stay on Contacts after I configure the folder? I do click "Apply" and then "OK," but that doesn't seem to make a difference. It keeps changing back.
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