It's even worse than you say: there's no email program in Windows 7. You have to download and install one yourself if you don't have a web-based mail account (like hotmail or gmail or yahoo)! From your post, I understand you use MS Outlook.
All email programs I know come with an empty address book that you have to fill yourself. The way to do that, of course, depends on the program you use. Look in the help of Outlook (you didn't tell the version: 2003, 2007, 2010?) how to fill the contact information.
Kees
This is very frustrating. Why is the address book not in Windows 7?
When I send an email from outlook and click the "To" or "CC" button beside send NO contact names appear. This is specially frustrating when you want to "BCC" someone.
Is there ANYTHING I can do to remedy this?

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