Windows 7 - Windows Mail

Mark · 03-17-2009

How to Reinstate Windows Mail in Windows 7

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Click here to read the entire tutorial

Donz · 02-13-2012

but loads of them...

??? Do you mean several Windows Mail . exe Processes?

I only have one.

I'm no expert but I would consider a System Restore to an earlier date, and start over.

Don

TheStudioMK · 02-13-2012

Nah this is a brand new computer out of the box... there is no system restore point... does anyone else know the problem I am encountering... and hopefully a solution

So yeah when I click the desktop icon it just keeps launching WinMail.exe *32 files... loads of them in Task Manager... but none actually open/display anything

tangentjohn · 02-14-2012

You are doomed. Not really, it CAN be done, but my experience is that when all is said and done... it isn't worth it, and it'll always give you grief. I've found Thunderbird to be a satisfactory replacement for outlook express. Getting your addresses imported isn't easy but TBird has a plugin you can install to do it. I like TBirds calendar. The whole mail client is a LOT like Outlook Express, and you don't have the whole worry of hacking your registry and not knowing what's going on.

endeavor · 02-16-2012

Quote: Originally Posted by EKMantis

Hey, I made a batch file of the fix on your page since I plan to use it on a lot of computers. I have attached the zip with the batch files (and other necessary components) if you wanted to add them to your page for people that want an easy fix. Pretty self-explanatory. Thanks for the great fix!

*EDIT: All you need to run is "winmail32.bat" for a 32bit installation, or "winmail64.bat" for a 64bit installation. The rest of the files are just there for the batch file to use.

Hey EKMantis, nice job with this Easy One Click .bat installation.

I had WinMail installed when this thread first came out in the begining and tested it, loved the excitment about it, and it worked well, but so many times changing computers and or installing it for others, this .bat just makes it so darn easier going forward - a no brainer. click click done, quickly set a few options to suit ones taste, server info, and was ready to go.

I like how you used the subinacl.exe to set permissions, you covered all bases, all in all nice job with your bat code! I think if the powers that be approve, your ENABLE WINDOWS MAIL.zip download should be added to the first page as an alternative easy one-click install for steps 1 thru 4 including footnotes. ...of course to transfer/import Contacts, Accounts, Emails, etc, from a previous installation that will have to all be done manually following tututorial steps 5 & 6, there's no way around that.

Code:

 
regedit /s winmailedit.reg
attrib -s -h "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe"
subinacl /noverbose /file "C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\msoe.dll" /setowner=Everyone
subinacl /noverbose /file "C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\msoe.dll" /grant=Everyone=f
ren "C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\msoe.dll" "msoe.dll.old"
xcopy "msoe32.dll" "C:\Program Files\Windows Mail" /c /h /e /v /y /d /k
ren "C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\msoe32.dll" "msoe.dll"
pause

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Ex_Brit · 02-16-2012

There could be a problem if someone blindly went ahead with it and their installation is on another partition than C: though. Post a warning about that.

(My Windows 7's are on partitions L: and M: for instance).

endeavor · 02-16-2012

There is a small percentage of persons using their OS installed other than C:\
...is there a universal location pointer like what was done with "%ProgramFiles%\ that could be used for the other processes he has in there?

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Ex_Brit · 02-16-2012

65.55.39.12 is Microsoft in Redmond but not sure why it is communicating with 'home' except perhaps to check for updates maybe? I have no idea about a universal location pointer, sorry. I'd leave that to the person who thought up the code in the first place. As long as the code is there and a warning is posted it should be enough.

roncerr · 02-16-2012

Quote: Originally Posted by EKMantis

Hey, I made a batch file of the fix on your page...

What does "your" refer to? The Tutorial on page one of this thread? If so is there anything else needed to do to "Reinstate Windows Mail on Windows 7" other than run the batch file?

Also I imagine that if Microsoft borks the msoe.dll file with a future Windows 7 update, a new version for Vista computers will be ported over to the first page of the tutorial and that new version would have to be substituted for the one in your zip file download.

EDIT: Guess I was looking for this link to the original thread: Windows Mail

KVacek · 02-19-2012

Great thread - thanks Poppa Bear. I've used Outlook for years because of the loss of OE, but I immediately activated WM upon reading this thread, because I personally only use the mail portions of Outlook myself. Further, I can't quickly explain Outlook to most low-end users, and they wind up using webmail.

One question though. On the surface, I'm having trouble importing my Outlook messages - I get a message "Messages canot be imported from the MAPI client. MAPI is not installed on this computer or an error occurred while initializing it." I tried renaming mapi.dll and running fixmapi.exe, but it made no difference. Any suggestions?

TIA
Karl

Ex_Brit · 02-19-2012

Is this thread any help? Just substitute Windows 7 where it mentions Vista.

How to import messages from Microsoft Outlook to Windows Mail?

Or this may help: http://blogs.technet.com/b/james/arc...dows-mail.aspx

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