...winston

Many don't use a Live ID at signon and certainly that is your preference. When not using a Live ID at signon WLM uses the 'Default
Contacts'.

If you do use all the available contact fields in WLM without a signon it may be important to recognize that all available fields
for use in WLM's Contact manager(e.g. work email, other email) do not export or import to a csv file. Thus if you do have to import
into the same system or another system at a later time, then those fields(and others not included in an import/export) will require
reentry.

The only way around this is use of a Live ID and exporting/importing the contacts in the web interface(contacts.live.com)which
requires the use of a Live ID. Once the Contacts are in a Live ID and sync'd with WLM, the contact file(a single database file
contact.edb) can then be copied to the Default Contact database store.



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