"Stewart" wrote in message
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"Bert Coules" wrote in message
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Ann wrote:

Check here for 2 files you can download and apply, which should make
winmail
your default email client ...

Ah, thanks very much for that. At the moment, though I have a Vista
installation disk, it's not installed on any of my PCs. I wonder if
there's a way of extracting the Mail program without doing a full
install? I must check around.


In older Win versions, you used to be able to extract compressed files
from the install disk libraries from the command line. I believe it was
the expand command (it's been awhile). You can open up a command prompt
and type it in with a /? to get a list of the options and syntax.

You used to be able to use windows explorer to look at the compressed
library files. Not sure if this is still the case (again, older versions
of windows).


With the newer OS installers from MS, it's an image file that can be mounted
to a folder with IMAGEX.EXE. Now you can browse the folder structure within
the image and copy files out.