Windows Contacts is present on Win7 for backward compatibility to
Vista(when upgrading a Vista unit to Win7, or allowing one to copy Windows
Contacts from an existing Vista PC to a new Win7 pc) to ensure that those
Windows Contacts can be imported into an email client installed on the
email client-less Windows 7. For Microsoft clients those installable email
clients would be Outlook and WLM....both of which can import Windows
Contacts(current Windows address book user)...and thereafter neither use
Windows Contacts(Outlook stores contacts in its *.pst file, WLM in
contacts.edb)
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....winston
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"barrowhill" wrote in message news:zYx5p.24574$2...
Winston,
Interesting !? if WLM doesn't use Windows Contacts what is Static backing
up when installed on Windows 7 based machine ?? because it is certainly
detecting something called "Windows Contacts"
"...winston" <> wrote in message
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> WLM doesn't use Windows Contacts(which Static does backup) !
>
>
>
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> ...winston
> msft mvp mail
>
> "barrowhill" wrote in message news:BYf5p.826$2...
>
> Winston,
>
> Thanks for reply. You state ..."Static does not backup WLM's
> contacts.........".
>
> Is this operating system dependant ?? As indicated, I have a laptop
> running windows 7 and Live Mail. I've installed Static on this machine
> and
> it works perfectly i.e. it detects Windows contacts (in my case 43KB
> worth), Windows Live Mail Settings (17KB), and Windows Live Mail Database
> (80MB).
>
> Why does in work in Windows 7 and not Windows XP !?!
>
>
> "...winston" <> wrote in message
> news:ij1k58$5e2$...
>> Static does not backup WLM's contacts..
>> Export to a csv file or copy the entire contacts folder (or use a Live
>> ID)
>>
>> Windows Live Mail Contacts - Operating Modes
>> http://liveunplugged.wordpress.com/2...erating-modes/
>>
>> Windows Live Mail - Contacts Database
>> http://liveunplugged.wordpress.com/2...acts-database/
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> ...winston
>> msft mvp mail
>>
>> "barrowhill" wrote in message
>> news:c3W4p.10859$2...
>>
>> I've downloaded and installed 'Static Windows Live Mail Backup 2.9f Free
>> Version onto my laptop running Windows 7. Program is ideal as it saves
>> Contacts, Mail settings and Mail database and works fine.
>>
>> I decided to move for Outlook Express on my desktop to Live Mail and had
>> no
>> problems installing and copying everything across. All automatic and no
>> issues. My desktop runs Windows XP
>>
>> However, installing live back up as indicated above, when this opens it
>> cannot find the Contacts file.
>>
>> Help appreciated in resolving this issue
>>
>
>
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