Autocomplete not working for Windows Mail

[Sam Bryan]

When sending an e-mail in WM I begin entering an e-mail address in the To
box that should autocomplete. I've got autocomplete set. But it does not. I
imported my address book from Outlook Express. I've Google'd around for help
with this and see lots of complaints but no mention of fixes. I realize this
problem much have been posted to this group many times. But it is not
showing up in any of the postings that I can currently view and I am new to
the group.

Hope someone knows of a fix. Any help much appreciated. -- Sam

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Auto-complete does not work well in Windows Mail. Instead of the
regular Contacts list, it uses a special list of the last 29 addresses you
sent mail to.
That function works much better in the newer Windows Live Mail.
I recommend you upgrade to it:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

 

[Sam Bryan]

Thanks Gary. I'll do that. -- sam

Auto-complete does not work well in Windows Mail. Instead of the
regular Contacts list, it uses a special list of the last 29 addresses you
sent mail to.
That function works much better in the newer Windows Live Mail.
I recommend you upgrade to it:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You're welcome, Sam.

 

[Guest]

hi, just bought a laptop with vista loaded and this was one of my mail
problems, what i did was to send someone a mail and then reply to that
mail and then autocomplete works. dont know if this has been said before
as i have just joined the forum.
haggis

The autocomplete function in Windows mail doesn't use the contacts list.
Instead, it uses a separate list of the last 29 addresses you sent messages
to.

If you'd rather use the contacts list, start a new message as usual, except
don't type any part of the address. Instead, click on To:.