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

Mortimer wrote:
"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.

I agree. However the action you took, moving them, isn't the same as
exporting them as nothing will change with a simple move though it might
if exported to another format and then re-imported.


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