Windows email contacts

[2008sage1]

When I first starting using Vista, we imported emails from outlook express. However hardly any came through.  So I entered the name, e-mail address. However when I tried to send email through xcel, I had to type in the actual email address not the receivers name. (Never had to do this with outlook express.)  So I deleted all of them and entered them again. When I entered them the second time, they came up using receivers name, but it also includes the old name, address which won't go through. They come back to me. I tried holding the mouse on them in the send to:, and pressing delete as it says, but that does NOT work. How can I just delete them and start fresh so that they don't come up two or three at a time when I type the name in send to?  I am so frustrated with the operation, I could scream. Please help me.Thanks, Rita:


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[Gary VanderMolen]

It sounds like the Windows Mail auto-complete function is
remembering older (but invalid) email addresses.
Windows Mail does not auto-complete from your contacts.
It uses a separate list of the last 29 recipients you've sent mail to.

You can purge the entire auto-complete list:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...il-auto-complete-entries-in-Windows-Mail.html

Or you can selectively edit it:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...tly-used-email-addresses-in-Windows-Mail.html

In the long run, a much better solution is to upgrade to the
newer WLM email program, because its auto-complete feature
works much better; it uses the standard contacts list.

http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview