Windows Mail

Bruce,

Many thanks for the detailed and speedy reply.

WinMail also cannot be made the default mail or news client.

Oh, that's something of a pity; I was hoping that it could.

I still might try it, but what I really hope is that someone comes up wth a
third-part email and newsreader for Win7 that emulates the look and feel of
Outlook Express.

Bert

"Bert Coules" wrote in message
o.uk...
Bruce,

Many thanks for the detailed and speedy reply.

WinMail also cannot be made the default mail or news client.

Oh, that's something of a pity; I was hoping that it could.

I still might try it, but what I really hope is that someone comes up
wth a third-part email and newsreader for Win7 that emulates the look
and feel of Outlook Express.

Bert


Have you tried Thunderbird? It's pretty darn close to OE. You can run it
alongside of WLMail to test it if you want to.

Set both programs to Leave a copy of messages on the server. Set one only
to Delete messages after X days.

Sent messages will only show in the e-mail program sent from, but both
will receive all messages.

Thunderbird:
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

"Bruce Hagen"

A few caveats: EML and NWS files will not open in WinMail, but rather
another e-mail client that you will need to have. WinMail also cannot be
made the default mail or news client.

There are .reg files that will import part of Windows Vista's registry into
Win7
so that you can make WinMail the default program and so that it will also
open
..eml files and behave as standard eMail client (i.e. it will open a
link on a website).
These don't however behave correctly on every setup,
i managed it on a win7 x86 and win7 x64 machine (both ultimate).

Also if you use a different language than English
(in my case it is German),
you must copy the language files too, when exporting from the original
vista directory, in my case the subdirectory was
DE-de

Generally i also join the opinion that OutlookExpress was a better piece of
software than many people said,
and that WinMail is easier to use than WLM.

However, we will not be able to use these tweeks forever.
The Spam filter no longer works, also the orthography check will not work.
There are no more updates and so on.

WLM is getting better but for the moment i do prefer WinMail.

By the way - the Windows Calendar from Windows Vista can also be exported
and run easily in Win7.

greetings from Dresden.

Roland Schweiger

"Bert Coules" wrote in message
o.uk...
Bruce,

Many thanks for the detailed and speedy reply.

WinMail also cannot be made the default mail or news client.

Oh, that's something of a pity; I was hoping that it could.

I still might try it, but what I really hope is that someone comes up wth a
third-part email and newsreader for Win7 that emulates the look and feel of
Outlook Express.

Bert


Hi Bert .....

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

http://www.sevenforums.com/software/...default-5.html

Ann

Your headers indicate you're using Windows Mail, not Outlook Express.


In ,
Mark F. typed:
Yes I am running it right now..





"Stewart" wrote in message
...
Windows Mail sure seems like a kludge of a program. Outlook Express
seemed to be much better/faster/more configurable. I know there are
plenty of other 3rd party mail programs available, but has anyone
been able to install OE in W7?

Bruce Hagen wrote:

Have you tried Thunderbird?

I insalled it but it got itself into terminal knots with its attempted
auto-setup of my email accounts, then - without asking if I wanted it to or
not - set itself as my default mail program. These two things were enough
to make me dislike it even before I'd tried it, so I uninstalled it.
Perhaps I should give it another go. Is there a way of avoiding the
auto-setup and doing things manually?

Bert

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.

Bert

On 1/3/2010 5:11 AM, Bert Coules wrote:
Bruce Hagen wrote:

Have you tried Thunderbird?

I insalled it but it got itself into terminal knots with its attempted
auto-setup of my email accounts, then - without asking if I wanted it to
or not - set itself as my default mail program. These two things were
enough to make me dislike it even before I'd tried it, so I uninstalled
it. Perhaps I should give it another go. Is there a way of avoiding the
auto-setup and doing things manually?

Yes there is. When the account wizard starts up, go ahead and enter
your name email address and password then click on next. After the
wizard comes up with what it thinks your account settings should be, you
should also see a button in the lower left corner of the window to
manually edit the settings.


Roy Smith
Windows 7

Timestamp: Sunday, January 03, 2010 6:57:51 AM

"Bert Coules" wrote in message
...
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.

Bert



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).

Roy Smith wrote:

Yes there is. When the account wizard starts up...

Thanks very much for that, Roy.

Bert

"Stewart" wrote in message
...
Windows Mail sure seems like a kludge of a program. Outlook Express
seemed to be much better/faster/more configurable. I know there are
plenty of other 3rd party mail programs available, but has anyone been
able to install OE in W7?

I have given up I am using the default mail. I am getting used to it but
it wasn't easy.



--
https://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Stewart wrot:

In older Win versions, you used to be able to extract compressed files
from the install disk libraries from the command line.

Thanks for that. Now that you mention it, I seem to remember once having a
third party Cabinet Viewer utility which listed the contents of
compressed-file folders without having to extract them first.

Bert

"Bert Coules" wrote in message
.. .
Stewart wrot:

In older Win versions, you used to be able to extract compressed files from the install disk
libraries from the command line.

Thanks for that. Now that you mention it, I seem to remember once having a third party Cabinet
Viewer utility which listed the contents of compressed-file folders without having to extract them
first.

Bert



Starting with Vista, Microsoft changed the way files are installed during Windows setup.
The Vista install DVD has no compressed program files or cabinet archives but has image
files of an installation. These have a .wim extension (Windows Image).
The two main install files are Boot.wim and Install.wim.
To extract files from a wim file you can use 7-Zip:
http://www.7-zip.org/
This free program will read a wim file and allow you to copy individual files.
The Windows Mail folder is in Install.wim, under Program Files.

"Ophelia" wrote in message
...


"Stewart" wrote in message
...
Windows Mail sure seems like a kludge of a program. Outlook
Express seemed to be much better/faster/more configurable. I know
there are plenty of other 3rd party mail programs available, but
has anyone been able to install OE in W7?

I have given up I am using the default mail. I am getting used to
it but it wasn't easy.



--
https://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Same thing when they changed everything in Office 2007, after so many
people had grown so accustomed to the original interface and placement
of commands and options.

Efficiencies went out the door.....

Dave-UK wrote:

The Vista install DVD has no compressed program files or cabinet archives
but has image
files of an installation.

Again, thanks. I'll give it a go.

Bert