Windows 7: Windows Mail

yamaho Welcome to SevenForums,
The answer is yes you need the Vista files from your vista os for this to work.

Hello Mr Grim,



I have followed your procedure and completed for all of steps without any error message.
However, the Windows mail did not started but looks looping when WinMail.exe was double clicked.

I have pasted windows mail folder of VISTA (32 bit Ultimate Japanese) to under program files folder of Windows 7 (64 bit Ultimate Japanese).
Is this because I have copied windows mail folder of VISTA (32 bit Ultimate Japanese) but not windows mail folder of VISTA (64 bit Ultimate) ?

Really, I would like to use Windows Mail instead and appreciated very much to having any of your suggestion to fix my issue.

Thank you in advance and look forward to having your reply. BR.

Hi again,
did anyone have this same problem?
I can open a saved email, it opens in WLM, send it, saves a sent copy to WLM and also have a copy in the sent mail in Gmail, but if I need to alter the saved mail I have to create a completely new one.
I would just like to use just one mails service.

Thanks..

It is because Windows Live Mail was set as the default mail handler which means that it is the default program associated with the emails...

Use these tutorials:
Default Programs - Set a Program's Default Associations

Open With - Change Default Program

Default Programs - Associate a File Type or Protocol

Copied Vista 32 bit and Vista 64 bit folders to relevant Program files and had followed the instructions in this tutorial. I get the following messages "Windows mail could not be started. The application was unable to open the message store. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk is full 0x800700C1,193" and it also flags up "Windows Mail could not be started because MSOE.dll could not be initialised"
The system has more than enough resources available so it doesnt make sense to me. Would appreciate a pointer in the right direction.

It is impossible to install manual security updates for windows mail in windows 7. It will give serious security problems in windows 7?

I just copied the Windows Mail folder from a Vista machine to my Windows 7 machine and it opened up and found my Live email and loaded it up. Works great. I did not use Windows Mail on that Vista machine so I have a question. I want to do this for someone else and they do use Windows Mail. I save the Windows Mail folder before the Windows 7 install. Then complete these instructions and replace the existing Windows Mail folder with the copied folder.
Will this copy over all of their emails, contacts, etc?
Thank you
Doug

]Hi Zidane24,
thanks, but I think there is something else not set up or installed on here??

I do not have WM listed anywhere on here except on my toolbar and a shortcut, see attachments.

IF, I open properties on the saved mail, which was created and saved in WM and change it there, when I click on it then it opens the main page of WLM!

I dont even have a WM icon in programs and teatures, so I cannot even uninstall it!!

The funny thing is I have sort of got used to it, as I can send mails that I created, but I have to remember that they get sent via WLM. I not keen on WLM, made a mistake the other day of deleting the messages from there, but did not realise it delted them from Gmail as well -opps!!

Any ideas or help with this.

Thanks
Neil

Can you set Windows Mail as defult mail handler? I can do it in the options, but then if I click OK and go back into the options, it still says it is not??? Any way to get round this

I have got Windows Mail set up thanks to the help I got on here, but have the same problem as jake. You can't set it as the default mail handler in Set Default Programs - there's no option to add to the list or browse to it. And in Internet Explorer it allows you to set file associations. I've associated .eml files with WM. I notice I now don't have the option to send emails from IE - Send page (or link) by email are greyed out. Can do without that - but it's an annoyance!