Contacts in Mail : concerns over Vista in general

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My children gave ne a new computer for my birthday last week. My old machine
has seen better days and lumbers along a bit. This machine is loaded with
Vista and has already caused me innumerable problems.
Setting up my broadband connection has cost two days of frustration and
three or four hours of intense conversation with some delightful people in
Simla or Jodpuhr.
Having got the internet working I am plagued by a window whioch pops up and
asks whether I should allow Google toolbars or Adobe to be allowed. Clicking
'allow' sends the message away but it returns a second or so later. Clicking
'don't allow' has the same effect. Eventually by some magic after repeating
this exercise several dozen times I do get onto the net.
Is it me oe is there some trick I have missed.
Mail is even more frightening.
I have transfered my address book to Vista and now find that it comes up in
a rather silly folder called Contacts which does not antciipate addresses
when I enter names and which does not group them into the categories I have
spent several hundred hours entering into the original Outlook.
I have followed all of the instuctions on how to do this in Vista Contacts
which tell me to click new contact on the tool bar. This option does not
appear on the toolbar or I am missing something?
Using a transfer cable I was assured by the Welcome Centre and the cable
programme that I coulld transfer all of the data and programmes I use to the
new machine. This has not happened depite letting the thing run fo nearly
four hours to do it.
Help programmes are long on verbiage and short on information and I am close
to ramming a pile of alumium switches pots and drives right into the San
Bernadino River valley.
Any help would be gratefully recieved.
 
Tom Spoors said:
My children gave ne a new computer for my birthday last week. My old
machine
has seen better days and lumbers along a bit. This machine is loaded with
Vista and has already caused me innumerable problems.
Setting up my broadband connection has cost two days of frustration and
three or four hours of intense conversation with some delightful people in
Simla or Jodpuhr.
Having got the internet working I am plagued by a window whioch pops up
and
asks whether I should allow Google toolbars or Adobe to be allowed.
Clicking
'allow' sends the message away but it returns a second or so later.
Clicking
'don't allow' has the same effect. Eventually by some magic after
repeating
this exercise several dozen times I do get onto the net.
Is it me oe is there some trick I have missed.
Click to expand...

The Google Toolbar causes problems in Windows Mail and should be
uninstalled.

The Adobe Reader should be installed if you want to be able to read
..pdf files, a common type of files on the internet. See here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

<http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...ectly-from-Windows-Mail-in-Windows-Vista.html>

You usually don't need any more software from Adobe.
Mail is even more frightening.
I have transfered my address book to Vista and now find that it comes up
in
a rather silly folder called Contacts which does not antciipate addresses
when I enter names and which does not group them into the categories I
have
spent several hundred hours entering into the original Outlook.
Click to expand...

Windows Mail does not use the contacts list for completing addresses.
Instead,
it uses a separate list of the last 29 addresses you sent messages to. This
list
is very hard to edit by any means other than sending messages to addresses
you want kept on the list.
 
In addition to the answer Robert already gave you, let me dispense
some general advice. New computers come with what we techs call
'Bloatware', many useless programs which do little but slow down
your computer and cause incompatibility problems.
Have a knowledgeable person go to Control Panel, Programs and
Features (Classic View), and uninstall all the programs which you don't
really need. That includes things like Google toolbar.
 
Happy Birthday, Tom.
(Mine is tomorrow)

Windows Mail is a replacement for Outlook Express, and of course, does not
have all the features of Outlook. If you have Outlook 2003 or newer, then
it will run fine on Vista.
The auto-completion of email addresses just doesn't work well in WM. Before
you go too far, you might want to take a look at the newer Windows Live
Mail, which works much better.

If you don't see the "New Contact" button, then your Contacts folder has
apparently switched from it's proper default
template. Open "Contacts", and right-click on a blank area of the right
pane, and select "Customize this
folder". In the pull-down box, select "Contacts". Click "OK".
Remember how to do this in other folders, as Vista has a penchant for
changing the template.
 
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