ITunes sync of contacts (iCloud vs. Window Contacts)

Hi together,
I have a question to iTunes and the sync mechanism. I am using iTunes with my iPhone 4S and at starting with it I imported all my contacts via iTunes. For this I use the settings “Synchronize Contacts with Windows contacts”. This works fine, but all contacts I added later directly at my iPhone are now synchronizes with iCloud and that’s not nice.
At this problem I have two questions and I hope someone here can help me:
How can I change the settings at iTunes / iPhone that all contacts are now stored and synchronized with iCloud?
When I synchronize my contacts with iTunes the software always overwrites my meanwhile changed contacts at the iPhone with the old contacts stored at my Windows contacts folder. How can I change the settings that after synchronization the Windows contacts are updated and not overwritten with the old information?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Thomas

Anthony...
On the iPhone and iPad tap Settings > iCloud. Switch Contacts to off. Same with your MBPro; System Preferences > iCloud. Switfch Contacts off there.
Restart the iOS devices, restart your Mac. Switch Contacts back both devices and the Mac.
See if all the contacts show up.

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