I have only understood half of the issues here.

I've had to upgrade to Windows Live Mail on a Windows 7 PC.

I imported my old contacts list from Outlook Express (oh I loved that simple effective program) with the usual disastrous consequences seen elsewhere and messed up groups as is well known. I've sorted that now.

I've now managed to "Clean up" contacts to remove duplicates in People Live (despite many code errors, and it's taken most of the day to clean it out as it is so slow and repeatedly crashed whichever browser I used)

I have no hotmail account. I'm not sure what people.live is but I can sign into it so I guess I have a Windows account somewhere.

My questions are:

1. How is my Windows Live Mail contacts connected to People...if at all.

2. When I am logged into Windows Live Mail with the same account I used to get in to People, it shows me I have 27000 contacts, yet People now only has 8000 contacts (which seems about right)

When I log out of a WLM account but keep the program open it shows me just over 8000 contacts (though a different number from People) which suggests they are looking at different databases

4. I want to clear out all my WLM contacts and then import the cleaned up People list...how do I do that? I'm worried if I delete everything in WLM it may also delete the People list, as they may be linked somehow?

I've never knowingly synched or linked contacts with anything else, certainly not social media.

Can you advise me?

Mark

Split from an old, unrelated thread