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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
In the touch flo Mail section, you have the different mail accounts. When I activated MSN, the program added the Windows Live/Hotmail account. I've removed it with a reg editor, but in the touch flow mail section, you still see the WL account. Does somebody know how to remove it?
I had the option to NOT choose for it when installing MSN Live ?
Riel said:
I had the option to NOT choose for it when installing MSN Live ?
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Yes, I did choose the no option, but the mail account was installed. Now I want to remove it completely.
I had no mail account created that way. Strange. Anyway, I really don't know how to get rid of it. I believe you could fix it in the registry.
pannenkoek said:
Yes, I did choose the no option, but the mail account was installed. Now I want to remove it completely.
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To remove completlety the hotmail account, emails and the synchronized contacts from your book, you just need to change the windows live id thats logged in.
When you are asked to accept the new terms before you create a new account just "reject" and exit messenger.
xispas2008 said:
To remove completlety the hotmail account, emails and the synchronized contacts from your book, you just need to change the windows live id thats logged in.
When you are asked to accept the new terms before you create a new account just "reject" and exit messenger.
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That's all!
Thank you so much, i found these words simple and especially useful, without long word' circles.
xispas2008 said:
To remove completlety the hotmail account, emails and the synchronized contacts from your book, you just need to change the windows live id thats logged in.
When you are asked to accept the new terms before you create a new account just "reject" and exit messenger.
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thanks man. been trying to figure dis one out for days.
what i wanted to ask can i somehow sign in with onether account??
so i have set in hotmail my mail/pass and that is working fine but when my frend whats to coonect via that msn i dont know where should i go to put in his user/pass so that he can sign in for a few minutes??
I have a Att Captivate. I just rooted it. Can I remove the Att address Book that came with he phone without causing problem? I wanted to replace it with the one by Assurant. Please Help. I don't want to start by causing myself problems.
Do you mean remove the default contact program?
AT&T has a backup program that back's up the address book, but if you don't set it up first, it doesn't do anything.
REPLACE
No I mean, can I replace the default address book. It does not have all that I'm looking for in a address book. I would like to replace it totally with the Asurion Mobile AddressBook for Android. But I don't want to cause phone problems that can not be reversed. If I can what do I delete?
there's plenty of storage on the phone and the address book app isn't that big. Just use the One you want and try to ignore the fact the other one exists.
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The first step for installing the new address book is to remove all other address books because of conflict. So do I just ignore this step?
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The first step for installing the new address book is to remove all other address books because of conflict. So do I just ignore this step?
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maybe provide a link to the app?
I am still unsure what you are trying to do. Android stores data in different databases - There are front end apps that access this data. There is the Contacts application that lets you link contacts from google, phone, exchange, etc.
The only place i have to even see anything called the AT&T address book is under contacts->settings; if i go to set up AT&T address book it is just to manage contacts online and backup and recover. I have no app for AT&T address book - but then i never set it up to start with.
If you do have an address book outside of the rest of the databases, then it is possible your email and other apps won't have access to your contacts - but again, I am not familiar with the app you mention. I can't find it in the app market, or via google.
Removing original AB, adding Asurion
alphadog00 said:
If you do have an address book outside of the rest of the databases, then it is possible your email and other apps won't have access to your contacts - but again, I am not familiar with the app you mention. I can't find it in the app market, or via google.
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I am 99% sure he's referring to Asurion Addressbook for Android 1.6/2.0
I am a noob so I can't post a formatted link but the website is getaddressbook.com/
ok, OP [original poster] In terms of removing the stock contacts app.... Use "Titanium Backup" and remove
------[contacts 2.1-update1]
*********BUT DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!! I tried it and it made my phone unstable...
However, I did find that I don't have conflicts with Asurion ..... So far....
WHatever you do, don't try "Phonebook 2.0" it's the worst app ever.
Hi,
Is there any way to change phone e-mail address to an old one without losing applications or games purchased?
Or if i can merge email addresses?
Windows Phone 8,Lumia520 user if needs..
Thanks in advance.
Starysu write
aeroaqua said:
Hi,
Is there any way to change phone e-mail address to an old one without losing applications or games purchased?
Or if i can merge email addresses?
Windows Phone 8,Lumia520 user if needs..
Thanks in advance.
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If you look up accounts in your setting I believe you can add another email to your phone.
Not sure if you can change it totally without loosing info.
If you're just worried about the email address, I think you can change the address associated with a given Microsoft account. You can also just stop synching email on the current account and add the other account as a normal email account (as opposed to the phone's primary Microsoft account), if you *really* only care about email.
Otherwise, though, I'm not sure if you have any good options. On WP7, your purchases and such were attached to your Zune Tag / Xbox Live Gamertag (same thing) and you could move those between accounts, then hard-reset the phone and set it up with the "new" account to have access to all your old games. It *probably* works the same for WP8, but I can't promise that.
This kind of DRM bull**** is one of the reasons I don't "buy" apps if I can help it. If you actually owned a copy of the app, you could just re-install it on your own device after changing the primary ID no problem... Same goes for Steam and such, of course.
GoodDayToDie said:
If you're just worried about the email address, I think you can change the address associated with a given Microsoft account. You can also just stop synching email on the current account and add the other account as a normal email account (as opposed to the phone's primary Microsoft account), if you *really* only care about email.
Otherwise, though, I'm not sure if you have any good options. On WP7, your purchases and such were attached to your Zune Tag / Xbox Live Gamertag (same thing) and you could move those between accounts, then hard-reset the phone and set it up with the "new" account to have access to all your old games. It *probably* works the same for WP8, but I can't promise that.
This kind of DRM bull**** is one of the reasons I don't "buy" apps if I can help it. If you actually owned a copy of the app, you could just re-install it on your own device after changing the primary ID no problem... Same goes for Steam and such, of course.
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So,this is the story.
When i bought Lumia 520,i wanted to sign in with my e-mail address hotmail.com. I received error,tried with a new alias(same error), so i had to make new e-mail address(outlook.com)..Few days ago, i reseted my phone to factory settings, then i tried for curiosity if my first e-mail work and worked .Now i want to move apps/games to old e-mail address hotmail.com (or merge e-mail addresses).but i can't..I know that in wp7 you could change in registry something( i read somewhere )...
I can change gamertag for free(first time),but e-mail address no.I've been talked with support but they didn't helped me. They gived me a free t-shirt for xbox avatar.....I think there is no other option..just buy again apps/games in old e-mail address.
aeroaqua said:
So,this is the story.
When i bought Lumia 520,i wanted to sign in with my e-mail address hotmail.com. I received error,tried with a new alias(same error), so i had to make new e-mail address(outlook.com)..Few days ago, i reseted my phone to factory settings, then i tried for curiosity if my first e-mail work and worked .Now i want to move apps/games to old e-mail address hotmail.com (or merge e-mail addresses).but i can't..I know that in wp7 you could change in registry something( i read somewhere )...
I can change gamertag for free(first time),but e-mail address no.I've been talked with support but they didn't helped me. They gived me a free t-shirt for xbox avatar.....I think there is no other option..just buy again apps/games in old e-mail address.
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I believe that if you go to live.com and log in, there is an option under accounts to link different addresses to your account, as well as set the primary. As I remember, would be able to use any/all of those to log in. I had this issue before when I set up a new email. Only problem I had after that was my phones address and the primary weren't the same and FB chat through the native messenger app would not work. I reset the primary and no issues after that. Try it and let us know.
juanitoriv said:
I believe that if you go to live.com and log in, there is an option under accounts to link different addresses to your account, as well as set the primary. As I remember, would be able to use any/all of those to log in. I had this issue before when I set up a new email. Only problem I had after that was my phones address and the primary weren't the same and FB chat through the native messenger app would not work. I reset the primary and no issues after that. Try it and let us know.
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What did you say is for alias...
aeroaqua said:
What did you say is for alias...
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I said that you can add other addresses that will link to whatever you use for your Live.com account.
Need some help here guys.
I am trying to locate my office exchange Global address list , basically the contact of all staff in my company exchange server.
Where do I find the contacts? It's critical when I need to drop an email to someone in the company or look for their contact numbers.
Under iPhone its Contacts , groups , exchange global address list
Appreciate if anyone can help. Thanks.
gt_5454 said:
Need some help here guys.
I am trying to locate my office exchange Global address list , basically the contact of all staff in my company exchange server.
Where do I find the contacts? It's critical when I need to drop an email to someone in the company or look for their contact numbers.
Under iPhone its Contacts , groups , exchange global address list
Appreciate if anyone can help. Thanks.
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My OP3T is also sync with my office exchange for emails, contacts & calendars. When you want to call or send email, if you begin to type the contact name a live search is made on the exchange directory.
mcfouch said:
My OP3T is also sync with my office exchange for emails, contacts & calendars. When you want to call or send email, if you begin to type the contact name a live search is made on the exchange directory.
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Thanks for your answer. May I know which email client are you using please?
I am using Gmail to sync with my exchange server and it seems to only search for my 500 contacts but not the exchange directory.
As for calls , do you mean once you key in the 1st few numbers it will begin to search for those in the exchange directory as well? Doesn't seems like mine is doing it though.
gt_5454 said:
Thanks for your answer. May I know which email client are you using please?
I am using Gmail to sync with my exchange server and it seems to only search for my 500 contacts but not the exchange directory.
As for calls , do you mean once you key in the 1st few numbers it will begin to search for those in the exchange directory as well? Doesn't seems like mine is doing it though.
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I also use Gmail email client with Exchange. Your personal contacts and suggested contacts address book are localy sync on your phone.
GAL sync is a contact provider, so the search work in all apps with the contact capability. GAL contacts are search online.
I am the Exchange sysadmin of my office and I already seen some issues like this. Exchange can handle a limited number of activesync devices (10 AFAIR).
Ask you Exchange sysadmin to clean your devices pairing, delete your Exchange account on your phone and add it again.
Hope that help.
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Ho I forgot it. You can clean your devices yourself.
In a web browser, open your exchange account in Outlook Web App (exchange webmail UI) of your organization.
On the top/right open "Options" menu, and click "see all options". it will bring you in ECP (exchange control panel).
On the left you have a phone item, select one by one devices and the black cross (delete).
mcfouch said:
I also use Gmail email client with Exchange. Your personal contacts and suggested contacts address book are localy sync on your phone.
GAL sync is a contact provider, so the search work in all apps with the contact capability. GAL contacts are search online.
I am the Exchange sysadmin of my office and I already seen some issues like this. Exchange can handle a limited number of activesync devices (10 AFAIR).
Ask you Exchange sysadmin to clean your devices pairing, delete your Exchange account on your phone and add it again.
Hope that help.
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Ho I forgot it. You can clean your devices yourself.
In a web browser, open your exchange account in Outlook Web App (exchange webmail UI) of your organization.
On the top/right open "Options" menu, and click "see all options". it will bring you in ECP (exchange control panel).
On the left you have a phone item, select one by one devices and the black cross (delete).
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Many thanks for your detailed explanation.
I will give it a try.