Find back 'New Contact' shortcut in Vista

In Windows Vista, the program Windows Contacts behaves differently from Windows XP. When you start Windows Contacts, it is implemented as a special folder in the user folder. A normal view of that folder is given.

However sometimes, especially after you do a system restore, the shortcut New Contact, New Contact Group, Import and Export may be missing. Microsoft hasn't given you any solution to this problem ;(.

To find the shortcuts back, follow these steps.

1. Go to the parent folder of Contacts directory, right click on the Contacts directory and select properties.
2. In the popup window, go to the tab 'Customize'.
3. On the top of Customize view, you will see Use this folder type as a template. Here choose Contacts.
4. Then click on OK.

Now, all the shortcuts should be back.

Nokia contact display issue

My housemate bought a Nokia cell phone yesterday. When he arrived home, all time were devoted to studying the new phone. Unfortunately, when he tested his messages, he found the phone cannot display the sender's name, though the number is stored in his SIM card. After fiddling with his phone for a long time, he asked me to send him a new message again.

Wow, my name was displayed. So he asked the first sender to send him the message again. Of course, the result remained the same. I do remember I have met this problem before. But it is hard to pick up the cause; it happened long time ago. Luckily, I figured it out.

This problem is caused by duplicate numbers. If you store the same phone number into more than one contact, Nokia phone will not display the contact in your address list.