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Exporting Renamed Contacts?
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O.P. RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts?
Hello friends!

I am sorry for forgetting again lol. I just formatted :)

I know that you do not lose your contacts on msn, what I mean is that you lose the custom names you asign to them.

Say you know your friend Rob and Joe from somewhere but you always get the two mixed up. You can select one and press F2 to rename him from @%&&#%(&#%)(%&( to Rob and #@$(&% to Joe.

I always rename my contacts and this is what you end up losing when you format your computer that I had wished to keep.

Under my own doing, I did manage to find out how to backup this information, this is for those who are interested in knowing :)

go to your Start Button>type regedit

Now Following the following Path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou

Make sure you have selected the Patchou folder and then go to Fike>Export then save your file as something like MSN Custom Names.reg

When you want to restore all of your custom names, open up Regedit again, go to File and Import your custom reg file :)

Didnt know it was that simple, I am very computer inclined so I managed a solution by myself.

I really appreciate all the help you friends have been giving me

Thank you!
06-23-2007 01:28 AM
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Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by Zodiak on 06-17-2007 at 11:23 PM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by ahmetgns on 06-18-2007 at 06:19 PM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by Zodiak on 06-20-2007 at 02:58 AM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by MicroWay on 06-20-2007 at 04:02 AM
RE: RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by ahmetgns on 06-20-2007 at 07:16 AM
RE: RE: RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by CookieRevised on 06-20-2007 at 11:16 PM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by trini on 06-20-2007 at 09:20 AM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by MicroWay on 06-20-2007 at 07:55 PM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by ahmetgns on 06-20-2007 at 08:02 PM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by ahmetgns on 06-21-2007 at 08:34 AM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by CookieRevised on 06-21-2007 at 09:12 AM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by Zodiak on 06-23-2007 at 01:28 AM
RE: RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by CookieRevised on 06-23-2007 at 02:37 AM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by ahmetgns on 06-23-2007 at 07:54 AM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by CookieRevised on 06-23-2007 at 09:11 AM
RE: Exporting Renamed Contacts? - by MicroWay on 06-23-2007 at 01:12 PM


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