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re: Noi Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 12:30 pm Posted by Shawn (610 messages posted) Hi Jack, When you are in a compose email message window, click on the "To:" button to select from the contacts list. This tutorial is for Contact Groups, but it will help give you a good idea how to use normal Contacts too. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69738-contact-groups-windows-mail.html Hope this helps, Shawn There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 1:18 pm Posted by Jack (55 messages posted) Thanks Shawn, but I had read your previously posted messages on this subject and they really don't help. My Mom is 88 and does not deal well with a new way of doing things. She wants to see a list of contacts in her mail program. Obviously Windows Mail will not do that. Can I import Outlook Express or some non-Microsoft program to help her? Thanks. Jack [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 2:20 pm Posted by Shawn (610 messages posted) Jack, "Outllook Express" will not work properky in Vista, but "Outlook 2003" and newer will run fine in Vista. You might give the free Windows Live Mail (WLM) a try to see how she likes it. It has a easier to find Contacts link button on the left pane of the window. It supports Pop3, IMAP, HTTP website (EX: Hotmail) email, and is a lot more stable. Plus, WLM will minimize to a tray bar icon, checks spelling as you type messages, and has a separate Inbox for each email account. WLM will automatically import Windows Mail messages, accounts, and settings into it. Contacts will have to be manually imported from within WLM. (Tools, Contacts, File, Import, Address book for current Windows User.) To see the Menu bar, press ALT+M and check "Show all menus". http://www.vistax64.com/windows-live/92348-windows-live-suite-downloads.html Hope this helps, Shawn There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 2:27 pm Posted by Jack (55 messages posted) Thanks, Shawn. I assume you are referring to what used to be Hotmail. Is there a way to place that on the desktop? Jack [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 2:34 pm Posted by Shawn (610 messages posted) Jack, Windows Live Mail (WLM) is a email program like Windows Mail except you get the bonus of being able to use Hotmail with it in addition to your normal email. Once you install it and run it, tell it to make itself the default email program when asked when you first open WLM. (In Tools - Options for the default option) It will then replace all of Windows Mail shortcuts with it's own shortcut. You can still use Windows Mail also, if you like, with WLM to. Shawn There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Noi Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 3:11 pm Posted by Steve (19685 messages posted) Try Thunderbird. I switched My Dad to it, and He didn't even notice. I think He still thinks He is using Outlook Express. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 3:41 pm Posted by Jack (55 messages posted) Thanks Steve. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 3:55 pm Posted by Steve (19685 messages posted) Hope it works for you. I even disguised Thunderbird to look like OE, by changing it's Icon and name. Did the same thing to Firefox, by making it look Like IE, and then disguised IE to something nondescript, and disabled it so it wouldn't launch in case He accidentally clicked on it. He used Firefox for 2 years thinking it was Internet Explorer, before I finally told Him it was not IE. :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 4:13 pm Posted by Jack (55 messages posted) Pretty Funny. I just downloaded Thunderbird, though, and cannot figure out how to place a list of contacts on the main page, under the list of folders, like on OE. I see an icon in the toolbar for an address book. Is that the only way to do it? Jack [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 4:23 pm Posted by Steve (19685 messages posted) Sorry, but I don't really remember how the contact list looks like in OE, and don't have Thunderbird installed on my own computer. I personally use Web mail. Click around in Thunderbird for awhile see if you can't get it setup to Her liking. It is actually a much safer email client then OE. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Contact List in Windows Mail Monday, May 12, 2008 at 4:37 pm Posted by Steve (19685 messages posted) Thunderbird like Firefox has extensions. See if this extension is what may be a substitute. http://jpeters.no-ip.com/extensions/index.php?page=tb_cs [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Noi Contact List in Windows Mail Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 7:18 am Posted by JimmyK (139 messages posted) If you look at the send and receive tab, the one right next to it is the contacts tab. Click on it, it will open up and you add your contacts as you would normally do. Vista takes a bit of getting use to. Play around with each program to get familiar with it. On Monday, May 12, 2008 at 12:13 pm, Jack wrote: >I just helped my mother get a new computer for Mothers Day and she is ready to return >it because it has Vista and there is no contact list in Windows Mail. I have read >Microsoft's instructions for setting up contacts from the start menu, but it does >not explain how that list relates to Windows Mail. So, my question is when you are >in Windows Mail, how do you access your contacts in order to send an email? If this >is not possible (???) is there a way to load Outlook Express on to Vista, or is there >a free non-Microsoft email program that would work? Thanks. > >Jack [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum