How can I clear email-address from Search field for Outlook People?

Anonymous
2019-08-06T18:11:57+00:00

I have sent/received a couple of emails to/from some people who are not in my Hotmail-People Contacts list (even those emails have been deleted a while ago). Now if I type their email address into People Search field - the email will show up there.

How can I clear this search cache, thus email-addresses (which are not in my Contacts and that does not have any corresponding emails anymore) will not show up in the Search?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-08T18:42:15+00:00

    This worked for me in Outlook live

    To accomplish this: 1. Click the New button to open a new message. 2. Type the first three character of the cached name into the To field to trigger the AutoComplete feature. 3. Press the Down Arrow key on your keyboard to highlight the name or email address you wanted to delete. 4. Press Delete on your keyboard to remove it. For more information check out http://support2.microsoft.com/?kbid=287623

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-08T18:47:53+00:00

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    This worked for me in Outlook live

    To accomplish this: 1. Clic"

    Never Mind. Came Back :{

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-15T08:28:01+00:00

    ...after many months ...this has finally worked for me ...but I had to use shift+delete at stage 4. in order to delete the unwanted/dead email addresses ...that Outlook seems the need to cling on to for some reason! Why do they make it so difficult!!

    Many thanks Maxximus

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-22T16:44:08+00:00

    I am having the same problem - not being able to delete/remove old addresses or those deceased.  Can anyone resolve this?  Old address continue to pop up.  They don't show in my "contact list".  Yet when I use the contact "search bar" in Microsoft - Outlook; guess what their name shows with all their "old" address.  REALLY can't they just be deleted?!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-29T22:57:37+00:00

    I tried most of this but  i can not solve the problem... 

    At the end i try and solved it by myself.

    This is my way to do it...

    Problem: Trying to delete a mail adress from the Hotmail(Outlook) auto complete list.

    Solution: First, add the adress(the one that appears automaticaly)  to your adressbook.

    And then go to your adressbook find it and delete it. 

    Thats all...

    Thanks alpergurdal,

    This method did seem to work for me now after doing about a dozen names/emails. So far I had two that this method didn't work for. The added twist/fix:

    For those email addresses that were stubborn and wouldn't disappear (even after purposely adding then deleting the contact), I searched for and deleted the email associated with it or from whom it was sent. This was generally pretty easy and usually had a business attached to it. I think combining these two methods (thanks to alpergurdal for the first method) should work...but unless there is a more straightforward way this is really tedious and anyone should set aside some time. 

    Also...I have a feeling there is nothing keeping this from reoccurring as you get more emails/spam, etc if that is truly where Hotmail/Outlook is pulling the email addresses. Very frustrating. Stay tuned...

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