Deleting a "Hidden" contact

I start Windows Live Messenger, sign in and my 4 contacts are shown. If I
then click on Spaces and login to My Space, Interent Explorer starts, as
expected.
If I go to Invite A Friend there are 5 contacts shown. The extra on is a
hotmail address I stupidly replied to from a web-page sometime ago. How do I
delete this contact. As I said it does not show in Messenger.
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Regards, Richard

Greetings Richard,

You probably only have Messenger set to show you 'Messenger contacts'.

Just start typing in the address in the Messenger 'Find a contact...' field, it should come
up and you can delete it there. The search ignores the filtering setting.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Richard A. King" <> wrote in message
news:27E40EEC-C305-4855-8324-...
> I start Windows Live Messenger, sign in and my 4 contacts are shown. If I
> then click on Spaces and login to My Space, Interent Explorer starts, as
> expected.
> If I go to Invite A Friend there are 5 contacts shown. The extra on is a
> hotmail address I stupidly replied to from a web-page sometime ago. How do I
> delete this contact. As I said it does not show in Messenger.
> --
> Regards, Richard

Thanks Jonathan,

I have "Show All Contacts" set, but the contact does not show in Messenger.
In Spaces it shows as a Messenger contact. I have also tried the steps
described in "Clearing Contacts Cache" in online help, but the contact is
still in Spaces

--
Regards, Richard


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings Richard,
>
> You probably only have Messenger set to show you 'Messenger contacts'.
>
> Just start typing in the address in the Messenger 'Find a contact...' field, it should come
> up and you can delete it there. The search ignores the filtering setting.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
>
> "Richard A. King" <> wrote in message
> news:27E40EEC-C305-4855-8324-...
> > I start Windows Live Messenger, sign in and my 4 contacts are shown. If I
> > then click on Spaces and login to My Space, Interent Explorer starts, as
> > expected.
> > If I go to Invite A Friend there are 5 contacts shown. The extra on is a
> > hotmail address I stupidly replied to from a web-page sometime ago. How do I
> > delete this contact. As I said it does not show in Messenger.
> > --
> > Regards, Richard
>
>

"Richard A. King" wrote:

> I start Windows Live Messenger, sign in and my 4 contacts are shown. If I
> then click on Spaces and login to My Space, Interent Explorer starts, as
> expected.
> If I go to Invite A Friend there are 5 contacts shown. The extra on is a
> hotmail address I stupidly replied to from a web-page sometime ago. How do I
> delete this contact. As I said it does not show in Messenger.
> --
> Regards, Richard