Windows Live mail - can't import my contacts

[Ron O'Brien]

So, because I am being forced to use this tacky Windows Live mail program
(coz I want to open attachments after IE8!), I have installed it and as I
would expect from a Microsoft install it didn't go smoothly!

After quite some period of time the install program announced that it could
not import my contacts - probably the most important aspect of my mail
program!

It tells me to do so manually, with no instruction how to of course. I am
merely told to point the program in the direction of my Winmail address
book.

How? Where?

Thanks in advance

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Open Contacts in Windows Live Mail.
If you don't see the menu bar, press Alt briefly, then click File, Import,
"Address book for current Windows user". It should then find your Vista
contacts automatically.

Questions pertaining specifically to Windows Live Mail should be asked
in the WLM newsgroup:

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
or via your news reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[Gordon]

So, because I am being forced to use this tacky Windows Live mail program

Err no you're not - there are other free email clients you can use.
Mozilla Thunderbird
40tude
Eudora
to name three.

 

[Ron O'Brien]

Err no you're not - there are other free email clients you can use.
Mozilla Thunderbird
40tude
Eudora
to name three.

OK, I'll take that on-board what I meant was that I am being coerced into
moving to Windows Live Mail from Winmail unnecessarily, when Winmail is
perfectly adequate for my needs, Microsoft always does this, "if the public
won't change, we'll force them too" routine, I think MS think they're a
government

Ron

Thanks to Gary for the instruction and sorry for posting in wrong group

 

[Gordon]

OK, I'll take that on-board what I meant was that I am being coerced into
moving to Windows Live Mail from Winmail unnecessarily, when Winmail is
perfectly adequate for my needs, Microsoft always does this, "if the
public won't change, we'll force them too" routine, I think MS think
they're a government

I quite agree - I also think that while of course MS wouldn't indicate that
there are alternatives to their products that generate revenue, I can't for
the life of me understand why (if they truly have the end-user at heart)
that they make no indication at all that there might be free alternatives to
MS's free applications - IE springs to mind as the main one here....
(there, bang goes my chance of ever getting MVP status......)

 

[Ron O'Brien]

I quite agree - I also think that while of course MS wouldn't indicate
that there are alternatives to their products that generate revenue, I
can't for the life of me understand why (if they truly have the end-user
at heart) that they make no indication at all that there might be free
alternatives to MS's free applications - IE springs to mind as the main
one here....
(there, bang goes my chance of ever getting MVP status......)

--

Well if put to the vote, I'll vote you in as MVP

But seriously it is a pain when you have this dominant 'force' called
Microsoft pushing people into using things they don't want to, don't need to
and who are quite happy where they are! Just because they have invented
something new, something new that is bound to go wrong and cause untold
mayhem on the new adopters' PC!

Ron

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Microsoft wants their MVPs to be independent and remain intellectually honest.
In the Windows Live Mail newsgroup I frequently rag on their Hotmail offering,
and on some of the crummy aspects of WLM's design. ;-)

 

[Rainald Taesler]

OK, I'll take that on-board what I meant was that I am being coerced
into moving to Windows Live Mail from Winmail unnecessarily,
Winmail is perfectly adequate for my needs,

100% d'accord!

when Microsoft always does this, "if the public won't change,
we'll force them too" routine, I think MS think they're a government

LOL

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I avoid getting into or wanting to install or have Windows Live Mail.
It's a headache!

OutLook Express was great...but they took it away.

I fully agree.
To sad that WinMail will be a thing of the past with Win7.

[...]
Sorry! just not a supporter of this "Live" features or
InstantMessenger process.

Me too.

Rainald