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My Windows 8 people app is showing many contacts which no longer exist in my Outlook/Hotmail contacts list. How do I make them disappear from the people app?

If I close the app down, and relaunch it, it says 'synchronising' in the top left of the screen, but the contacts all remain. I am not sure where these contacts are coming from, as they no longer exist in Outlook.com and there are no other linked accounts.

I have read and tried Gene's answer to How to delete contacts from the Windows 8 People app?. It suggests bringing up the options bar and clicking Delete, but my options bar does not have a delete button...

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  • This has already been asked before: http://superuser.com/questions/462299/how-to-delete-contacts-from-the-windows-8-people-app?rq=1 – Ramhound Jan 28 '13 at 13:21
  • The answers given in that question don't work for me. They are saying click the 'delete' button, but there is no delete button when I bring up the options panel on mine. – Sugarat Jan 28 '13 at 13:59
  • @Sugarat: I have voted to reopen your question, but please don't edit out the duplicate header manually. It will disappear by itself if the question gets reopened. – Dennis Jan 28 '13 at 17:07
  • If you were to click on one of these contacts, directly below their picture (or picture placeholder) it should identify where they have come from (such as Hotmail/Facebook/Twitter/etc.) - what does it say for the contacts you are having issues with? – Graham Wager Jan 28 '13 at 20:27
  • It does not say anything. There is a single button that says 'View Profile' to the right of the generic avatar picture, but that doesn't show anything either.. See http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=bccf5fa – Sugarat Jan 28 '13 at 20:46
  • What do you see when you right click to bring up the options? – Windos Jan 29 '13 at 00:53
  • Far left of the options is 'Home', then on the far right of the screen I have 'Online Only' and 'New Contact'. – Sugarat Jan 29 '13 at 16:56

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