Windows 8

aardvaak

I have just bought a new laptop running Windows 8 when I click on one of the app. 'people' and enter my Microsoft ID details it displays all of my address book even though I have never entered the address book on this computer.

Can anyone please suggest how this has happened and can it be removed?

penrhyn

Presumably you have previously uploaded your address book via your Microsoft ID.

aardvaak

penrhyn wrote: »

Presumably you have previously uploaded your address book via your Microsoft ID.

I think using a previous computer running Win 7 when I first used Windows Live Mail I signed in at the top (I now don't) but I never intentionally uploaded the address book.

If this is so can it be removed?

penrhyn

All your contacts across your accounts are stored by Microsoft, I guess you'll have to log ito your live mail account and delete them, assuming thats what you want to do.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-live/mail-email-windows-live-id-why-faq

aardvaak

penrhyn wrote: »

All your contacts across your accounts are stored by Microsoft, I guess you'll have to log ito your live mail account and delete them, assuming thats what you want to do.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-live/mail-email-windows-live-id-why-faq

I do not want to delete the contacts stored on the computer using Win Live Mail in Win 7- I only want to delete from the Microsoft online account.

penrhyn

I don't think thats possible they are all linked, however someone will be along who knows more than me hopefully.

Gyro

I think it's happened because when you first installed (or opened) Windows you signed up to the User Account using the 'Microsoft ID' option.

If you had signed into a 'Local' account then this would not be happening as you wouldn't be linked to your universal Microsoft ID.

I think you may have to reinstall Windows and look carefully for the 'Local' account check-box during the install process if you really want to change things.

Nicholas-bloody-Parsons

With Windows 8, by default, you log onto the "cloud", which in this case is your 'hotmail' or 'live' account. So this is your online contact list and details which you are viewing.

This is particularly handy if you have multiple Windows 8 devices such as phone etc. So you see the same contact list etc, no matter which Windows 8 device you are using.

Lum

Gyro wrote: »

I think you may have to reinstall Windows and look carefully for the 'Local' account check-box during the install process if you really want to change things.

Reinstalling Windows seems a bit excessive, surely just making a new account would make more sense?

Jarbuhu

Whenever you connect your emails together it automatically will pull from all of the emails. It is pretty annoying, especially when you don't want to mix your work contacts with your friends and family. It isn't as bad as connecting your phone to a social media page though.

victor2

Lum wrote: »

Reinstalling Windows seems a bit excessive, surely just making a new account would make more sense?

You can switch an account from using a Microsoft ID to just a local account. It's all done in User account settings.
I would just create a local account first to be safe though, then try to change the current one!