Vista - Windows Mail (auto complete address)

Could someone please help me in figuring out what I need to do to have Windows Mail auto complete the address of the recipient. Sometimes it works and most of the time it does not. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Therapist

Hello Therapist,

Welcome to the forums.

WM will auto complete the last 29 addresses you have sent emails to. If you have the addresses in your contacts folder, it should auto complete from there. It may however wait until you hit the send button to do so if you haven't installed SP1. You can use just a first or last name and if there is only one possibility it will send(go to outbox). If more than one possibility it will give a list to choose from. It will not look these up until you click (or tab to) somewhere besides the line you are entering the addresses in.

Hope this helps.
Gary

Hi Therpist, I've had exactly the same problem. It's so annoying. Sometimes it will - for frequently used addresses - but more often it won't. I've just downloaded SP1 so we will see if it makes any difference. Another aggravating annoyance introduced by MS. Incidentaly, do you email directly from Microsoft Office? I used to be able to but suddenly I'm getting 'The Message could not be sent - An error occurred'. Brilliant!

Best of luck

Thank you to those who replied. I am new here but excited to see so many people reading and posting.

I am not sure what my solution is to the auto complete but I will continue to be a part of this forum...
Thank you again

Therapist

What AV are you using? Do you have email scanning turned off? See 'First' here: Windows Mail problems
Have you tried turning autocomplete off, apply, close WM, Open WM and re-enable autocomplete?

Gary