How to transfer the "Windows Address Book" to "Windows Contacts" on Vista or Windows 7

Print Rate Article Helpful Not Helpful On Windows Vista and Windows 7 the "Windows Address Book" (WAB) has been replaced with "Windows Contacts" (WC).  The "Windows Contacts" are stored in a folder which is accessible from Windows Explorer.   On Windows Vista - the "Windows Contacts" are also accessible from "Windows Mail". Note:  The "Windows Contacts" information is not used by "Windows Live mail" You may transfer WAB contacts to WC as follows: 1 - install Express Assist 10 (EA10) on the machine running Outlook Express (XP, W98, etc) 2 - make a backup copy of the Windows Address Book.  Note - within EA10, the WAB is contained in a separate backup group. In earlier versions of EA - the WAB was in the "Windows Files" group. 3 - copy the backup file from step 2 to the Vista machine (or to some media that can be read on the Vista machine). 4 - install EA10 on the Vista machine 5 - run EA10 -- click "Restore" 6 - locate the backup from step 3 and "open" it. 7 - choose restore option "Restore or View Data Files" 8 - locate the WAB item. 9 - check the WAB to be restored 10 - click "Restore Now" -- Express Assist will place a copy of the WAB from the OE machine into a folder in your "Documents" folder. It will be named:   RestoredAddressBook. 11 - go to menu "Start" - "All Programs" - "Windows Contacts" 12 - click the Import button (on the tool bar) 13 - select "Windows Address Books File" 14 - click "Import" 15 - select the "RestoredAddressBook" file 16 - "Open" it to do the Import