I have just successfully installed Windows Live Mail which appears to be a great improvement over IE Outlook (aka Hotmail), with one big exception.   In IE Outlook I would get a brief list of frequent contacts when I open a "New" (Compose) window.  Now if I type the letter d for example I get a short list of random contacts all the way from b to z most of whom I have not sent a e-mail to in over a year.  This is totally useless.

Putting contacts in a Favorites list makes no difference with getting a pick list.  What am I missing?   I want a short pick list of the most recent contacts tht I have sent e-mail to.

Worried that I might have to go back to full blown Outlook which I lost during a recent change out of computers

Thanks