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Mickey Segal
If your user name includes your last name and you search for your last name
in Windows Contacts the search results include every contact in your list.
Presumably this happens because all are tagged with your user name, but it
makes it hard to look up people with the same last name.
There is a strange workaround: type you last name backwards and the search
results list people who actually have your last name; you don't get a list
of all your contacts.
This behavior is still the same after Vista SP1. It is odd that the problem
didn't get fixed since the workaround makes it clear that it is possible to
get the correct result.
I wonder if Microsoft even knows of this strange Windows Contacts behavior.
There doesn't seem to be any way to report bugs to Microsoft ever since the
"Microsoft Wish" suggestion mechanism disappeared, so I've started a page at
which I list some of the annoyances of Vista, with workarounds if available,
at www.segal.org/vista/. Suggestions, additions, corrections and
workarounds are welcome (particularly workarounds).
in Windows Contacts the search results include every contact in your list.
Presumably this happens because all are tagged with your user name, but it
makes it hard to look up people with the same last name.
There is a strange workaround: type you last name backwards and the search
results list people who actually have your last name; you don't get a list
of all your contacts.
This behavior is still the same after Vista SP1. It is odd that the problem
didn't get fixed since the workaround makes it clear that it is possible to
get the correct result.
I wonder if Microsoft even knows of this strange Windows Contacts behavior.
There doesn't seem to be any way to report bugs to Microsoft ever since the
"Microsoft Wish" suggestion mechanism disappeared, so I've started a page at
which I list some of the annoyances of Vista, with workarounds if available,
at www.segal.org/vista/. Suggestions, additions, corrections and
workarounds are welcome (particularly workarounds).