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11-13-2007
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| | Re: Integrating Contacts with Windows Contacts Hi, I've used this trick with the beta but it doesn't realy work. When you change the prefered email address in Windows Live Mail Contacts and then check in Contacts you'll see in Contacts nothing has changed. Vista Contacts and WLM Contacts use a different mechanism Furthermore, the groups are not interchangable. So whilst this looks like a nice way to keep both Contact systems in sync it still leaves you with double editing if something changes. But thanks for the effort "DaViD_BRaNDoN" <DaViDBRaNDoN@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:0141B662-A4DC-4F75-8895-8DF1C123474B@xxxxxx Quote: > For those of you who just want to use Vista Contacts and don't like the > integration of Windows Live Mail contacts and Vista contacts, you can try > this little trick. This also avoids creation of contacts unnecessary at > "C:\Users\<your-user-name>Contacts" and > "C:\Users\<your-user-name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live > Mail\Contacts" folders and having them at-sync. > > - Remove "<your-email-address>" and "Default" folder from > "C:\Users\<your-user-name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live > Mail\Contacts" folder > - Fire up Command Prompt in administrative mode and navigate to > "C:\Users\<your-user-name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live > Mail\Contacts" folder > - Create a symbolic link (directory) called "Default" to your Vista > contacts > folder: mklink /d Default "C:\Users\<your-user-name>\Contacts" > - Fire up Windows Live Mail, create a new e-mail, type your contact e-mail > addresses and pat yourself at the back for the success  > > Make sure you disable auto-login to Live Messenger and stop signing into > Live ID using Live Mail option. Let me know if it works for you. > > > "Jeremiah" wrote: > Quote: >> I have 2 questions I haven't been able to figure out with this program. >> >> #1 I can't seem to figure out how to share contacts with the default >> windows >> contacts. I know that with windows live messenger you can unencrypt the >> contacts and they are stored inside a folder in the current user's >> contacts >> directory, but I can't seem to find any option like that in windows live >> mail. It seems like this should be included or else you are required to >> keep >> duplicate address books. Currently I have been exporting/importing >> contacts >> as either csv files or cards, but this gets old really fast. I'm sure >> there >> is an option for this but I just can't seem to find it. >> >> #2 In all previous versons (that I am aware of) of outlook, there has >> been >> an option to close to the system tray. This is incredibly usefulland not >> having this option is perhaps my biggest issue with windows live mail. >> Who >> wants to keep there application minimized on the task bar the whole time >> your >> computer is on? Again, if there is already a way to do this, I haven't >> found >> it. And I would hate to have to write a shell for this program just to >> hide >> it in the system tray. >> >> Thanks for your thoughts >> ~Jeremiah |
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