Actually, the use of contacts to find email did work pre SP1. It was
confusing to people because it didn't do that until after you hit the send
button and if it found the address, it just went to the outbox and didn't
show you the email address. SP1 made it find the addy before hitting the
send button. I have had no issues with WM since getting it set up properly
and doing a bit of experimenting to see how it works. If you hit the To:
button you will see a list of all contacts to pick from same as Outlook.
Never use OE so I can't compare anything to it. Also never used XP. My last
OS was win2k. Vista is different and while there are some aggravating
things, I find it stable and fast. You can find many tutorials on Vista
here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/ Even though it says x64, most also
apply to 32 bit.
Take care & Have Fun!!
Gary H.
"Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message
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> terrypcarter wrote:
>> Thanks.
>> Does that mean I had a lack of understanding both before and after
>> Vista SP1? I admit that I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
>> Could I have been using all of my address book/contacts with Windows
>> Mail before SP1 and thus had no reason to switch to Thunderbird, which
>> has taken a lot of work (considering the fact that I've gone round and
>> round with multiple system recoveries, with all the backups and
>> transfers of files that entails, and finally, finally, finally, got
>> major hardware replacements from HP)?
>> Did a lack of understanding on my part cause me to wrongly criticize
>> Microsoft for the address book hassle? When I queried back then, all the
>> answers I got said forget about it if
>> I want more than the most recent 29 contacts to come up in auto-fill.
>> Won't do it.
>> If I misunderstood, I apologize for claiming there was a lack in
>> Windows Mail. And I hope all of those folks who advised me will
>> apologize, too.
>>
>>
> No, Microsoft are responsible for a lot of email trouble. They couldn't
> decide which of about 3 candidates to pick, instead of leaving "Outlook
> Express" alone they put colors in it but took out useful things, then they
> decided the colored outlook express (Live Mail Desktop or whatever it was)
> would be the new client and suggested people get it, but it wasn't
> finished so they mucked about with it until it wouldn't work at all for
> some people, and then they messed about with Hotmail at the same time so
> nobody knew which was broken from one day to the next and then was about
> the time I downloaded Thunderbird and it has worked ever since - and also
> looks and works in a similar way (Much like Outlook Express) on Linux too.
>