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Deletion of Contacts from Messenger
  1. #1


    Koray Yucel Guest

    Deletion of Contacts from Messenger

    My question for Jonathan Key.

    I want to know and be sure that if I delete my mail address and sign up for
    it again,
    that makes remove all allowed and blocked contacts even if they have my
    address in their list? (in one post you wrote down something like that)

    It's really annoying situation that you have some contacts (spammers) in
    your blocked list and cannot be able to delete them permenantly.



    I want to delete them because it's really big problem for me. When I try to
    connect messenger from my WMobile PDA, I cannot. Why? Because in Turkey GPRS
    is not fast enough and my list (including blocked) is huge. I wish to delete
    blocked ones and maybe it becomes lighter then now.

    MS may serve this option to end users. Because it's required when your
    connection is not fast

    Thanks.

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    Izmir University of Economics
    Department of Computer Engineering

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  2. #2


    Jonathan Kay [MVP] Guest

    Re: Deletion of Contacts from Messenger

    Greetings,

    Thanks for bringing that scenario up, I hadn't thought about that before (performance over
    slow connections).

    To directly answer your question, yes, removing your Live ID will completely remove these
    lists. However, for best results I suggest you close the account before you head to sleep at
    night and then create it again in the morning. Last time I checked, there is a delay before
    it's completely removed and your contact list may still remain if you create it again too
    fast.

    For reference, you can close your account here:
    https://account.live.com/CloseAccount.aspx

    Additionally, before closing your account you may want to save your main contact list to a
    file first and then import it back into your "new" account after you've created it again.
    You can find the options for both saving and importing your contact list by opening up the
    main Messenger window, pressing Alt on the keyboard to bring up the menu bar, choosing the
    Contacts menu and these two options should be at the bottom. In older versions of Messenger
    they are on the File menu.

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    Jonathan Kay
    Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
    MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
    MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
    Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
    (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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    "Koray Yucel" <KorayYucel@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    newsD36AEC7-0A1F-4E76-8778-1CA591FD4F4C@xxxxxx

    > My question for Jonathan Key.
    >
    > I want to know and be sure that if I delete my mail address and sign up for
    > it again,
    > that makes remove all allowed and blocked contacts even if they have my
    > address in their list? (in one post you wrote down something like that)
    >
    > It's really annoying situation that you have some contacts (spammers) in
    > your blocked list and cannot be able to delete them permenantly.
    >
    > I want to delete them because it's really big problem for me. When I try to
    > connect messenger from my WMobile PDA, I cannot. Why? Because in Turkey GPRS
    > is not fast enough and my list (including blocked) is huge. I wish to delete
    > blocked ones and maybe it becomes lighter then now.
    >
    > MS may serve this option to end users. Because it's required when your
    > connection is not fast
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    > --
    > Izmir University of Economics
    > Department of Computer Engineering


      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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