"Seth" 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.


Thanks for the tip. It may be useful for me at some point (if my
personal buffer hasn't overflowed, that is)....