my contacts list in windows live mail and outlook and is enormous, since there is now a social network listing for each one--and they can't be deleted (there are some dead folks in there). how do I cull the list? I want to get rid of the duplicates--without using the cleanup function, which turned live mail into a nightmare on windows 7 (I suddenly had 16 "Barbara" entries--all the same and all wrong).

this is no longer amusing.

can anyone help?

thanks.