How to sync Gmail contacts with Windows Live?

[shortylickens]

Its not for me, its for my mother. I dont use anything from the Live suite.
I just got her a nice new Windows 7 computer and of course it doesnt have Outlook Express which is what she used before.
She refuses to use Gmail through the web which I keep telling her is the easiest way.
That pretty much leaves Live since she doesnt like Thunderbird and obviously we dont wanna pay for Outlook if we dont have to.

Windows Help says you gotta have a People page or something, but it seems to only work with Hotmail accounts. I cant find any setting in the Live Mail app that syncs contacts, just messages from any and all folders.


(Did a search here, found lots of topics on Live Mail but nothing about syncing contacts.)

 

[shortylickens]

OK nevermind. Just checked her gmail account from the web. She only has two actual contacts in there.
All her contacts are in her Outlook Express on the old computer. I will have to set it up again and export them manually. Does anyone know how to import them on Live Mail? Cuz I dont see an option for doing that. Maybe I can just double click on the CSV file and it will automatically work.
I sure hope so. Clients are much more work than they're worth. I gotta convince her to just use the web.

 

[zokudu]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/mail-import-backup-restore

The last dropdown box tells you how to do it.

 

[shortylickens]

Ahh, groovy.
But to get them I still gotta set up her old computer and run Outlook Express.