new contact group not available in toolbar

[jef]

On one of my computers, Vista Home Premium, Sp1, in Windows Mail, Contact
folder, there are no buttons for New Contact, or New Contact Group on the
Toolbar. I cannot find an option for customizing the Toolbar. However on
two other Vista Home Premium SP1, there are on the Toolbar, buttons for
Organize, View, Open, E-Mail, New Contact, New Contact Group, Edit, Delete.
How can I restore these buttons on the problem computer? One additional
fact, on the two computers that have the above buttons, in the Contact
Folder, there are two sub folders: contactcoll.cache and my personal email
address. On the computer missing the above buttons, there is my complete
contact group, individually listed. Help! TIA. Jef

 

[Dave]

(boilerplate reply).....

When you have the Contacts folder open, you should have a button on the
toolbar for "New Contact", "New Contact Group", Import" and "Export". If
you don't see these buttons, the folder template got changed, as it
sometimes does...

Right-click on a blank area of the right pane, and select "Customize this
folder".
In the pull-down box, select "Contacts"
OK

 

[jef]

Thanks, Dave and Shawn, your suggestions worked like a charm. Jef

 

[jef]

I spoke too soon. I followed your instructions, and reformatted the tool
bar and the buttons reappeared. However, when I later tried to set up some
groups, and clicked on the button. There was a click and a flash, but
nothing appeared further so that I could set up the group. Any ideas?
Jef

 

[jef]

That did the trick, Shawn. I had Windows Live Mail as my default e mail
program. But the new Beta version played havoc with my e
mailing...especially the Contacts, which kept disappearing, so I thought I'd
set up Windows Mail and give it another try...to see if the bugs I
experienced when it first came out have been corrected. About the only thing
in Windows Live Essentials I'm interested in is the Mail program. Thanks
for your help. Jef

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Go to Tools, Options, and on the General tab uncheck "Use
newsgroup message rating features". It's a very buggy feature
that everyone should disable.