Absolutely continue! ...that part it not important of what/who caused it, I had thought you tried a few different email clients and uninstalled them is all, something removed it though, and you were doing a lot of testings and fix its especially in your other threads, but irregardless of what did it lets move on, the resolve is the same and so yes please Continue on to fix it.
You don't have it done already :)
, that did it, "Thank you, thank you"!
Endeavor,
As you said...I was not aware of any updates since the known installing of SP1 breaks it but for that you simply need to just put the original msoe32/64.dll back is all, but other than that there was nothing else I was aware of.
Rumor has it that we are already overdue for SP-2.
As I remember with SP-1, WM still worked but SP-1 failed to load.
How confident are you that we will find some sort of fix if SP-2 won't load.
Don
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For what it's worth, I just put a new HD in my laptop. I did a clean install of Win 7 SP1 this time so I have an awful lot of re-installing to do. Last time was not SP1. Of course one of the most important things is Windows Mail. I noticed that there were new instructions for the mail now. Maybe it's just me but it seemed more complicated than the special instructions for doing so. For example I could not cut and past into the command prompt even after following the instructions for that. Also typing in the line 3 times in a couple of days did not work either. I'm no DOS whizz. So finally I just Googled the old instructions with the take ownership thing and no problems at all. It was very fast and I just drag and dropped the files from the old program. I don't know what I would do without my Mail program. I hope that one way or another I can keep it forever. I may have a computer full of all the latest Office programs, Adobe etc etc but I also still use Lotus Organizer since my first laptop in 1993. I updated the program until they stopped updates many tears ago.
I don't know why kewl1 that you had a problem with copy/paste.
When you go to and click on to open the local "TutReWinMail\ReWinMail_tutorial.html" instructions.. ...like right now when I open it, I can right click and select copy and paste on any of the lines it wants you to:
cd %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\TutReWinMail\
or
C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\Winmail.exe
or
winmail32
...you can even use Ctrl C and Ctrl V
The old way works still yes, but the new procedure from #3 to #7 is written that way for a reason, it's more accurate and will activate more people than it did before, and its new registry content being more streamlined, accurate, and most importantly up to date with the latest information.
@kewl1: The Windows shortcut for paste "Ctrl-V" does NOT work in a Command Prompt unless you've tweaked your system. Once you've copied text from a Windows application, you can either
1) use the built in command prompt editor by right clicking the title bar and selecting paste from the "edit" menu
2) Enable specific edit shortcuts for Command Prompt and use the right mouse button to paste.
Thanks for pointing this out kelw1 - I checked the online tutorial and it is not exactly clear. I changed the text reference in Post#1 to link to the "How to Enable Copy to Clipboard from the Windows 7 Command Prompt". I checked the offline tut and it has a link, but probably needs some amplification.
Just keep in mind Command Prompt has it's own editor. I'll work on the offline tut as soon as I get a chance.
Thank you both Endeavor and Slartybart. I guess for now it is working just fine so I will leave it alone. But next time I will trey the new instructions again for sure.
OK now I have noticed a strange new problem. On the old HD and using Windows 7 and the old instructions to set up Windows Mail I had the choice of having Windows Mail as the default Mail client. Now that I have used Win 7.1 on the new drive but again the old instructions that use Take Ownership etc. I can no longer find any place in windows or my working Windows Mail to assign it as default mail client.
Is this because of some change in the Windows SP1? Can I get this option back if I try again to use the new instructions (that I had trouble with)? Maybe that is why there are new instructions. I do not want my Outlook which I only use for work to be my default email.
Also just a tip I learned yesterday while doing some maintenance on my new Windows and HD installation. Don’t use the System File Checker tool which is used to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files Windows 7. It made my Windows Mail stop working so I did a system restore to get it back.
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