Windows Live Messenger 2011: Recover Deleted Contacts
If you have accidently deleted some contacts from your friend list in Windows Live Mail 2011, this tutorial will help you recover them.
1. Sign out of your account (if you are still online).
2. Go to Live.com and log in your account.
3. Click on Messenger->Contacts (you don’t need to sign in to Messenger).
4. Go to Manage->Restore deleted contacts.
5. Choose the contacts you want to restore and click Restore. You can also restore all contacts by clicking on Restore all. Please note that you can’t restore contacts deleted more than 30 days ago.
6. After contacts have been restored, click on Add as friend.
7. Choose Invite in the pop up window. After that, contacts will be restored. Your friends will not receive any invitation because your ID is still in their list.
8. Sign in back to WLM. (It may take some minutes for deleted contacts to appear in your list)
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March 29, 2011 at 11:15 am, Refouz said:
supeeeeeeeer
thanks tons
April 04, 2011 at 5:40 pm, Besabeqiraj said:
Isn’t it possible to restore the deleted contacts even if they were removed for a long time ago? please somebody tell me
April 04, 2011 at 5:41 pm, babygirl said:
Isn’t it possible to restore the deleted contacts even if they were removed for along time ago? Please somebody tell me!
April 05, 2011 at 12:43 am, Anonymous said:
you can’t restore contacts that were deleted more than 30 days ago.
September 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm, jibran hanif said:
Thanks a million
September 27, 2011 at 11:03 am, Andy Darlington said:
You have no idea how much I love you. Spent all day creating a database of contacts and then deleted the lot in two seconds. Now they’re all back. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
February 01, 2012 at 12:46 am, Blake Stovin said:
i have been having issues looking for someone i had on my list but unlike the old vertion of windows live messanager this new vertion dosnt give you the option to look up people in your privacy section so i can readd them its way mor confusin and complicated than it needs to be
May 03, 2012 at 12:41 pm, Mark said:
I love you! I was setting up a phone and during contact sync, deleted someone’s entire hotmail contact list. Now I’ve got it back. You are great. And hotmail too, for having this feature