Cannot delete WLM Contacts

Bummer. I tried IE and got the 404 error shown in one screen capture. So I tried messing around with the MSFT site to log into something and it asks for my security information (the other screen capture). It took me through a number of steps, the most critical is for a discontinued email address that I apparently used in the past, then said that I need to wait 30 days.

I don't even know if the "wait 30" is at the right place.

[rhetorical]How can it be so complicated to delete contacts??[/rhetorical]

I appreciate your continued help.

Thanks to you both. Yes, I do have WLM installed on my PC. That's where I exported/imported the contacts and have done the screen captures. But I've done enough work trying to repair/edit WLM 2012 that I think my best avenue at this point is to uninstall WLM and re-install. You say that I can leave the other "live" programs unchecked.

Assuming that all goes well with the new install, I'm assuming that the contacts will be empty, that there isn't somehow a hidden database (e.g., on the cloud), and then I then can import my CSV contacts. Assuming this is all okay at that point, what do I do on my iPhone and iPad? Do I need to delete those apps/accounts on those iDevices, or go into settings and choose Gmail as my option for contacts instead of iCloud and everything will sync from my PC via the cloud - or do I need to hook them up to my PC for the sync process?

Your comments here will be helpful, but getting past getting my WLM contacts repaired is kind of a different issue. I can work on that separately once I have a good contacts list on my PC.

Thanks again.

Okay, I've made real progress on this foray. By following the link https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=...p=false&snsc=1 I was redirected to the MSFT Outlook site, which I understand now replaces Hotmail, and was asked to choose which Google account to merge - I had forgotten that I have an old account that I no longer use. In any event, after a few steps, I was able to pull up my contacts, deleted them all, and successfully imported my CSV file.

I still have some remaining issues, but they deal mainly with iPhone and I think I can work through those or get help from the Apple forum. Mainly, my iPhone has some phone numbers that are not part of my gmail database, many of which are for people that I call and don't have email or that I don't know their email address. This has occurred because my CSV database was exported from my email client and the iPhone has phone numbers entered manually for making phone calls prior to getting an iPhone that can do both. But I'm pretty sure that I can simply add this phone data to my contacts database now that I have a corrected one. That way I'll have one database that can be used for email and phone.

I'm fairly proficient with spreadsheets. I'm comfortable there, and I like the idea of having a master database that I can keep for email, phone, addresses, and other data.

Point is that I'm now in an area that deviates from the toipic of this thread so I'll move on. I just wanted to return to thank you....