How to remove the windows live messenger contacts from my contacts list? I want to hide contacts from MSN Live in my Contact?
Any way?
dodadent said:
How to remove the windows live messenger contacts from my contacts list? I want to hide contacts from MSN Live in my Contact?
Any way?
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I like to know that to, my contact list is an absolute mess right now.. everyone I ever send a mail appears in my contacts list.. a great feature microsoft... NOT!
Any other way, other than deleting them manually?
I just installed Orwells crossbow, and ran MS Live. The contact list is now a mess :-(
rvbcrs said:
I like to know that to, my contact list is an absolute mess right now.. everyone I ever send a mail appears in my contacts list.. a great feature microsoft... NOT!
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+1..........
well, you do have two options.
when you have duplicates you have to enter their hotmail address into the corresponding IM field.
If you dont want to show them it is best to put them all together in a group and then to setup a filter to not show this group. This wont prevent the contacts from being synched
BIG NOTE:
Do not remove manually
It will remove them from your global contact list (i.e when you sign in on your pc your list is empty!)
Still no solution for this really annoying issue?
remove msn contacts
just wondering the same....
it's really a very very horrible feature....if i filter by groups the upper index don't work and neither the search box....
I'm working on a similar problem. The first time I ran it it put all of my Live messenger contacts as separate contacts on my address book. I had to remove them multiple times and from multiple places to keep them from showing up. I have since put all of my contacts email addresses into the IM field of their address book entry. Unfortunately my Live Messenger is now blank and I've yet to be able to figure out a way to get them back over. I THINK that if I had a Live mail account I could make it work by importing all of my contacts into Live mail using the Outlook Connector. Unfortunately I set up my passport account years ago with my ISP email. You would think that MS would have a way to add live mail to an existing passport but apparently you can't. . Now my MSDN account as well as my Xbox Live accounts, neither of which can be changed I don't believe. Rather leaves me in a bind, unfortunately. I have put in emails to MS support trying to find a way to import the contacts into Live Messenger but, unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be possible.
the work around:
use an companyname i.e. Live Messenger for these Live Messenger "contacts"... in this way you can sort on company name....
it is not the best solution but it is a bit ordened then
How about Unchecking the "Contact And Messenger" from the
Options/Sync options.
contacts
cyberdrakula said:
How about Unchecking the "Contact And Messenger" from the
Options/Sync options.
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nop....when u try to sing-in for the first time (also with the sync option uncheked) a pop-up appears telling you that the msn conctacs will be imported to the phone contacts...if u cancel, you can not sign in....
Stupid Feature!
This is the most annoying feature of the new Live Messenger. How come can MS think that people would like to merge their MSN contact list with the Phone contact list.
It is a mess!
I suggest using another messenger variant like IM+ or Agile.
Best regards,
Emre
Octro Talk is also very promising; but it sure would be nice to use the otherwise very well done Windows Live Messenger... it's hard to believe that Microsoft will leave that "feature" to be mandatory for long in a product that quite some work must have went into and that becomes a hassle to use because of the messed up contact list. I even lost some data due to the clunky handling of the Live and Exchange contacts combination...
Avatar28 said:
I'm working on a similar problem. The first time I ran it it put all of my Live messenger contacts as separate contacts on my address book. I had to remove them multiple times and from multiple places to keep them from showing up. I have since put all of my contacts email addresses into the IM field of their address book entry. Unfortunately my Live Messenger is now blank and I've yet to be able to figure out a way to get them back over. I THINK that if I had a Live mail account I could make it work by importing all of my contacts into Live mail using the Outlook Connector. Unfortunately I set up my passport account years ago with my ISP email. You would think that MS would have a way to add live mail to an existing passport but apparently you can't. . Now my MSDN account as well as my Xbox Live accounts, neither of which can be changed I don't believe. Rather leaves me in a bind, unfortunately. I have put in emails to MS support trying to find a way to import the contacts into Live Messenger but, unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be possible.
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i edit my Live messenger contacts as separate group when i lunch my Live Messenger my contacts is all blank.
how to import back my contact to Live Messenger ?
i have a question relating to this topic....
how do i get my hotmail contacts to register in messenger live without adding them manually? i have about 600 email addresses and most of them use live. i refuse to do the transfer manually.
Agreed
fastguy said:
This is the most annoying feature of the new Live Messenger. How come can MS think that people would like to merge their MSN contact list with the Phone contact list.
It is a mess!
I suggest using another messenger variant like IM+ or Agile.
Best regards,
Emre
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Its the worst feature in windows live. I better use IM+ to enter MSN messenger. I hate that all my hotmail contacts are copied into my phone contacts. I tried to syn my outlook contact with my hotmail contacts but at the end i ended having duplicate contacts.
My advice dont sign in using Live Messger, find an alternative.
idea
I was trying some things with .net 2 but no success. MSN stores contacts on the outlook repository so there is no way to delete those entrys and not delete the MSN contact.
I think de only way to solve this is to find a way to start de contacts screen with a custom filter. For example not showing contacts that first name equals to empty. That will do the trick for me.
With custom ListViews or ChooseContactDialog of .Net 2 you can make some filters, but i can´t find a way to make an exact replica of the original contacts screen and all of its functionality....
So there must be a way to start de original contacts application with a custom filter that doesn't show contacts having first name as empty.
any guru?
workarround
not a solution but a way to use live messenger and then restore contacts:
- log in to live messenger
- enjoy it
- sign out
- go to Windows Live
- go to options
- click on switch account
done...msn contacts are remove from outlook contacts
Please give more info
Dear Eljoe,
Can you give a little more info about switching the account to remove contacts imported from MSN to my Exchange/Outlook address book ?
Could you give a little more info on every step why and what you do exactly ?
If you really "tackled" this problem, it should be put in the WIKI for all devices !
Please enlighten us all a little more
Mike
Hello everybody. I have a quite annoying problem with my new little toy. When I installed MSN on my Diamond I imported all my MSN contacts to my contact list. The question is; how do i delete the MSN contacts from my phone-book? It is going to take hours if i have to delete one at a time.
I hope i presented the problem in an understanding way.
Well only thing you can do is delete all contact or dlete the msn contacts one by one.
If you still wanna use msn and not getting the contacts importet everytime you start it, You will have to reset your diamond to factory defaults and then when you run msn chooose the option that it shall NOT import the msn contacts..
So yes... i finally got outlook.. great i can back up my contacts to my PC YEY!
*plugs in phone*
*syncs*
yey...
o wait ALL MY NUMBERS HAVE BEEN DELETED as well as my calender.. >.>
haha great stuff... so i get some numbers back.
half of them i make a new contact for and these ones appear in outlook after i sync again...
but i have the newest msn live mobile.. and for some reason that saves all the hotmail emails in to my contact list.
so i add numbers to the peoples email address's i can find..
but these ones dont sync up... is there a reason why?
also how can i get outlook to add the emails to the sync list.
thanks in advance xD
In your ActiveSync options there is a place to "resolve Conflicts" If Its set to use Outlook it will delete contacts not in outlook.
anyone else know why my msn emails wont sync with my outlook?
Is there anyway to remove all the windows live messenger contacts in the contacts? Its REALLY annoying because I have 500 people on my MSN list.
Basically I just want all the contacts from Sim Manager only to be viewed in the contacts screen. How can I do it?
sync with outlook delete all live contacts
sync again with the setting make the pda like windows option
first backup outlook's pst file to be sure
and don't use the version of msn msg which auto add it's contacts
to contacts
I'm sorry your explenation confused me.
How do I sync with Outlook?
If I have to sync with my PC that doesn't work for some reason. I get an Error in the Active Sync software everytime I try.
I got it to sync with activesync and it said it synced my contacts succesfully.
But where are they? And it only seemed to sync 120 contacts. If all my MSN contacts are in my contact list on my phone there should be 500+
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please guys i really need some help with this. Its becoming frustrating going through a list of 500 to make a call.
Hi everybody,
I'm currently using 2 phones, my X1 and a Nokia 6600i slide. I'm syncing them both with my Windows 7 laptop which has Outlook 2007. I want to keep my agenda and contacts on both of my phones. This is because the Nokia is my work phone and X1 private, but I use them both to for example call private and have work and private appointments in them.
The thing I'm struggling with is the following:
Currently, my X1 has both my Windows Live contacts as well as my Outlook contacts. My Nokia only accepts Outlook contacts.
Therefor I have duplicates of some of my Windows Live contacts as Outlook contacts. I can do that via Outlook on my laptop, that isn't the problem.
The thing that bothers me is that my X1 shows both my Windows Live contacts as well as my Outlook contacts. So a lot of the names exist twice in my contacts list in my X1.
When I remove the Windows Live contacts, I also lose them from my MSN Messenger contact list.
So basically what I want is this:
- I decide for myself which contacts I want as Live only, as Outlook only, or as both. This doesn't need to be automated or anything
(I use Live only for people that I Only have on MSN, Outlook only for people that I don't have on msn like business relations, and both for people that I do have on MSN but also call, like family and friends)
- I want to have my X1 contact list OR show only the Outlook contacts, OR to show them both but in some way recognizes duplicates (on for example the exact same name) and then only show one of them, preferably the Outlook one.
I hope this makes sense to you guys, I tried my best to explain as clear as possible. Main issue is just that I don't want double names in my contact list on my X1.
If anyone knows how to achieve this or any other handy trick, please let me know!!
Thanks
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