Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

marthamonk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:21:04 GMT

I tried following your directions about go to "options, click on security. . ." but unless I'm missing something, there is no option to "encrypt contact list data . . . ". Are there updated instructions to sync Windows Live Contacts and Windows Contacts in Vista?

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

sbrink — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:54:44 GMT

the option to store your contacts unencrypted does not apear to be in live messenger 9 beta. any idea how to get windows live contacts en windows contacts to sync in this scenario?

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

Brandon LeBlanc — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:08:33 GMT

m45jeter, you will need to edit your contacts in Windows Live first. The changes will then sync to Windows Contacts through Messenger.

- Brandon

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

m45jeter — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:14:03 GMT

I just got a new laptop with windows vista and am having a blast setting this stuff all up. However, I do have one question. I have my contacts all connected but if I want to update a contact where should I do it so it synchronizes? Should I update the contact in Windows Live Contacts, Windows Live Hotmail, or where? Or is there a secret button to push where it will synchronize all over again? Thanks in advance for your help.

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

Vince Emmerson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:50:21 GMT

Vista 'create mail' provides only one slot for total contacts list. My XP OE6 provided a drop down containing my 5 different mail lists. I could delete some names from a mailing without altering the folder composition. Extra folders created in WM do not appear in the 'create mail'slot.

How can I get the OE6 efficiency into Vista

( which I otherwise like)

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

Teo — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:31:14 GMT

When I install WLM on Vista it makes my Contacts folder hidden and the folder is no longer the new green icon. Am I the only one who has this problem?!

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re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

Beau — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:45:56 GMT

Meh. Still wanting to export them to vCards though

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

joem — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:31:52 GMT

Brandon LeBlanc, sorry for the long delay. Yes I am subscribed to them, and not all of them have added the email address as of today.

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

Brandon LeBlanc — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:53:08 GMT

Trix.rox, this is a irritation of mine that just won't go away. I think it has to do something with the Zune Player software installed as it always seems to change when I install the Zune Player software and use it to purchase music. However this may not be the case.

Short answer is I don't know though.

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

someone — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:16:12 GMT

Pls MS make WL Messenger work properly with this syncing stuff in the next messenger update. It's really nice to have unified shared contacts between WLM and Windows Contacts.

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

Trix.rox — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:50:32 GMT

I noticed that the Music folder is no longer the new green icon in the screenshots. Mine did this to me too, anyone know what caused it? I like my icons to stay pretty.

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

thomthom — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:09:46 GMT

The GUI of Live Messenger and Live Mail looks nice. But what I don't understand is why it has it's own titlebar and windowframe when the window is not maximized, but when it is maximized it suddenly uses a standard window's frame and menubar controls.

Anyway, I want to have a look at this new app in use. How reliable is this beta? Is there much risk of loosing email if I should import my Windows Mail settings and start using Live Mail?

I clicked on the Calender shortcut in Live Mail, and that opened a website to Hotmail. (In IE even though FF is my browser) I gather that the calender is then a online one and not linked up with the Windows Calender?

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

boring39 — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:14:27 GMT

Cool i figured that the first scenario would work. Thanks for looking into that.

I don't have any problem making the copies, but having to make the copies does kind of break the seamless transition one expects from the software and a service model. It seems like Microsoft is trying to make windows and live be a seemless extension of one another, so streamlining the process would help make that happen.

OK, done thinking out loud.

mike

re: Making your Windows Live Contacts work with Windows Contacts

Brandon LeBlanc — Mon, 14 May 2007 04:59:14 GMT

Mike, you will be happy to note I just tested the scenerio you asked about. I was able to copy a .contact file and move it into my "name@hotmail.com" Windows Live Contacts folder and have it synced up to the "cloud" and my Windows Live Contacts in Messenger.

However, Messenger isn't smart enough to detect already existing contacts in Windows Contacts and add them by itself (not yet anyways!).

- Brandon