Open CONTACT file

CONTACT files: what are they and how do I open them?

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Microsoft Windows contact data

Files with contact extension are saved contacts used in Window's default contact manager program.

Further details:

File extension contact is mainly related and used in Windows Contacts, a contact manager included including since Windows Vista. It is implemented as a special folder and can be launched as wab.exe from Start.

CONTACT is an XML based format that contains individual contacts created in  the service.

Each contact file contains data about single contact, such as names, address, phone number etc.

These files are typically saved in the C:\User\Users\Contacts folder.

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