I want to transfer contacts list from laptop to thunderbird email.
Please bear with me because I'm not very tech savvy. I've recently installed Windows 10 on my Lenovo laptop and my default email is now Outlook (not my choice, just seemed to happen!). Previously, with Windows 8 I used BT Yahoo; I've also got a Thunderbird email, although I haven't used it much. Problem is I can't find my contacts list with the new Windows 10 email set-up. I know it says to look at the People app, but that only shows the email details of the people who've sent me a message since I switched, grand total of about 10! I have got a normal file of my full contacts list on the laptop, but I can't work out how to transfer this info. Having done some research, it seems Thunderbird email is more user-friendly for tech beginners, hence I'm asking my question here. Most of the stuff I've read so far is beyond my level of knowledge/understanding. Any help would be most gratefully received. Thanks.
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Ok lets just start at the beginning. Windows 10 in it's default install will report just about everything you do and Evey thing you look at to Microsoft. That is how you have this outlook email account. They "suggest" in a very underhanded way that you create a Microsoft account on outlook.com and use that for all your windows.
First you do not have to use that mil address of the stupid mail app on the start menu. Neither of these is really useful.
The people app is really only some software that displays your contact as they appear on the outlook.com web site. Again fairly rubbishy and barely of a standard for a phone app.
The answer in my view to both apps in Windows 0 is simply unpin them from the start menu and continue doing what you have done in the past. Be that Thunderbird or the BT/Yahoo web page. That is the address all your contacts have anyway. Not some outlook.com address. There is no reason to change, except that Microsoft would like you to be locked into their tiny corner of the internet.
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Ok lets just start at the beginning. Windows 10 in it's default install will report just about everything you do and Evey thing you look at to Microsoft. That is how you have this outlook email account. They "suggest" in a very underhanded way that you create a Microsoft account on outlook.com and use that for all your windows.
First you do not have to use that mil address of the stupid mail app on the start menu. Neither of these is really useful.
The people app is really only some software that displays your contact as they appear on the outlook.com web site. Again fairly rubbishy and barely of a standard for a phone app.
The answer in my view to both apps in Windows 0 is simply unpin them from the start menu and continue doing what you have done in the past. Be that Thunderbird or the BT/Yahoo web page. That is the address all your contacts have anyway. Not some outlook.com address. There is no reason to change, except that Microsoft would like you to be locked into their tiny corner of the internet.
Thanks so much, Matt, for taking the trouble to reply. I suppose nothing that sneeky Microsoft does should surprise me, but in my naivety I tend to assume I have to do what they tell me! Thanks again. lllb-c