Re: Windows Mail (Vista) taking a long time to display Contacts when sending email

"Lou Ravi" <j.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mortimer wrote:
My dad's Vista PC has suddenly started taking along time to display
the list of Contacts when he is preparing an email to send.
Previously the list was displayed almost instantaneously.

The details are:

- Create Mail, press To button beside the recipent's name/address
field - Window appears but takes about 10 seconds to be populated with
the
entries from his Contacts list
- He has not added/deleted any entries since the last time that it
worked properly - ie the entries appeared as soon as the window opened

- If he opens the contacts list explicitly from the Windows Mail
toolbar (ie not from the Creat Mail window) then the contents appear
immediately.
Any suggestions?

Sounds like something in the file has gone a bit off colour and windows is
having a job dealing with it. As the sort of loony idea that might work,
try exporting the address book, deleting the current one and importing it
back in again. Who knows?

Windows Mail Contacts on Vista seems to store each person's entry as a
separate .CONTACT file (maybe similar to a .VCF file), unlike the Windows
Address Book (.WAB file) used by Outlook Express on XP where all the
people's entries are stored in the same file.

Tried moving all the .CONTACT files out of the normal folder. With all the
entries except one moved, that entry was displayed instantaneously. As more
entries were added (moved back from the temporary folder where I'd saved
them), it took progressively longer to display them. I could understand it
if the address book had many thousnads of entries, but 10 seconds to display
the list when it's got 230 entries is ridiculous, particularly when the same
list of entries used to display instananeously until one day when the
behaviour suddenly changed.


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