Email Contacts Limitation - Workaround
If you're using "Windows Mail", the default email program that comes with Windows Vista, you will eventually find that when you click on "Create Mail" and start typing the name of your contact in the "To:" field, it will not auto-complete the name and you will have to type in the actual email address. If you don't remember it, you're forced to look it up. This is because it's set up to remember only the last 29 email contacts to whom you've send new emails.
The Longer, more tedious email workaround (phew!)
One of the ways you can send a new email to your contact without having to remember their email address:
- Open "Windows Mail"
- Click on "Contacts" (8th icon from the left of "Create Mail"
- Right-click on the name you want to send to
- Navigate to "Action" (3rd from the top on the popup menu
- Click on "Send Email".
The much Shorter Way!
If you have your "Windows Sidebar" running, you can install the "Contacts" gadget. Once installed, it automatically lists all your existing contacts and all you have to do is click on their name, then their email address and the "New Message" Email box pops up, ready for you to type the message! You don't even have to click on your email program in the first place!
To install the "Contacts" gadget:
- Click on the "+" at the top of your sidebar
- Double click on "Contacts" and that's it!
