hello Paul and others i am trying to get my contacts working in windows live mail. i have my contacts backed up on my external hd from windows mail. i have done a copy and paste from the hard drive to my contacts folder on my windows 7 laptop and all the contacts are showing up. but when i go in to send a new mail and try to select a contact they are not showing upit is showing up with only vip_students address there because it saved its self after replying. does anyone have an answer for this what am i doing wrong now. many thanks in advance. regards Vincent