Auto-Completion of email Address Issue

[Dave Lee]

Not long ago I upgraded my wife's computer from an old Win2000 Professional
system (w/OE as the email client) to Vista and Windows Mail. I imported her
old address file from OE which worked pretty well.

More recently one of her contacts has changed email addresses. I have
changed the relevant Windows Contact entry to the new email address with the
old name. But auto-completion insists on defaulting to the old email
address. I have also deleted and recreated the contact info, but
auto-completion insists on using the old email address.

At this point we have worked around this by using an alternate name, but
that is very irritating to my wife. Where is this old email address coming
from? I'm sure that in multiple places in her email database this old email
address exists as both a "To:" and "From" entry. But surely I don't have to
go wade through the whole thing and delete every last one of them.

Is this a known problem with a known solution?

Thanks.

dave

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Windows Mail saves a list of the last 29 recipients you've sent email to,
and uses that list for auto-completion.
There is no easy way to delete an undesired email address from that list.
That list is stored in the registry.
If you are comfortable editing the registry, you can delete this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Recently Used Addresses

Another option: Consider upgrading to Windows Live Mail which auto-completes
from the regular contacts list.
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

 

[Dave Lee]

Makes perfect sense - and now I know my options.

Thanks.

dave

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You're welcome.