Opening a .vcf vCard

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Conrad

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Hey, I'm new to this, so hope I'm not being repetitive. I recently started working from a home office. Got most things working fine. However, when I receive a vCard as an email attachment, it comes with a generic icon and won't open. I tried associating it with MS Outlook, so now it opens a new email, with the vcf file in the attachment spot. If I double-click that, it does it again. Of course, now I can't remove the association - and in any event I don't know what program to put in its place. I've tried clicking the "find appropriate programme on the web". It tells me that the file is a .vcf (I knew that) but doesn't provide me with the program I need. In the past Outlook has just automatically handled this stuff. Any thoughts?
Conrad.
 

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.vcf is a virtual business card.
Set notepad as the default program to open the file.
see here for more info :- .vcf file extension
 

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Hi Conrad, Welcome to the Forum!

Also, please be wary of things with .vcf extension. Many Virtual Greeting cards come with this extension...and a nasty surprise too. Many of these cards install and Adware program and others may install other viral types of hidden software. Basically if I recieve a VCard nowadays, I delete them.

While it "may" be a virtual business card, it can also be something else so please just be aware of this and know who it's coming from, what they sent, and from where (if it's a VCard). At least with that you can Google that VCard site and see if it's known to have Adware with it.
 

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Thanks for the advice Chappy. I'm aware of the need to be vigilant about greeting cards, and I too delete those without opening. A useful reminder!
 

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Thanks Roy69. I've done that and I can indeed read the content and manually transfer it to my Outlook contacts. However, what I'm trying ot achieve is the ability to open the file such as it appears in the format of a contact address card and can be saved directly into Outlook Contacts. I've always been able to do this in the past.
Cheers, Conrad.
 

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