Windows Mail

hi i tried that and when i click the windows mail icon it starts and looks like it is going to do something then it just stops any ideas what might be wrong at all let me know thanks

I must say I had to revert back to Windows Live Mail now that I had to do a fresh install of Windows 7. I really miss Windows Mail, but I found it simply too much work get it back. I wish someone could've created a batch file that would do this automatically.

Sammy888 said:

I must say I had to revert back to Windows Live Mail now that I had to do a fresh install of Windows 7. I really miss Windows Mail, but I found it simply too much work get it back. I wish someone could've created a batch file that would do this automatically.

I think the batch file is included in the process described here: Windows Mail . From the previous post it sounds like there is an extra complication for Windows 8. Personally, I am currently using WLM 2009 which works pretty well in Windows 7, although nothing beats OutlookExpress for XP or Windows Mail for Vista.

roncerr said:

Sammy888 said:

I must say I had to revert back to Windows Live Mail now that I had to do a fresh install of Windows 7. I really miss Windows Mail, but I found it simply too much work get it back. I wish someone could've created a batch file that would do this automatically.

I think the batch file is included in the process described here: Windows Mail . From the previous post it sounds like there is an extra complication for Windows 8. Personally, I am currently using WLM 2009 which works pretty well in Windows 7, although nothing beats OutlookExpress for XP or Windows Mail for Vista.

Totally agree. OE was the cat's meow in my opinion. I used it from the beginning back at least from the early 90's. I took the challenge one day to try to get the next best thing, Windows Mail after about 7 months or so of installing Windows 7. Iirc, I did use the batch file which will automate most of the process but not all so I won't be bothered.

Windows 8 is a non issue at this point. I won't be upgrading my PC from the i7 930 for another year or two. There are new chipsets coming out mid to early this year. Still, why Microsoft did what they did astonishes me, but not as much as Google. That's one company I will never understand where their stupidity comes from.

Happy 2013 everybody!

About a year ago, I followed the tutorial here to get Windows Mail on Win7 and have been using it since. Now I am ready to learn Outlook 2010 (mostly because it seems to have a better way to work with contacts--I got an iPhone and merged contacts and have 3-5 entries for each person--see my other post).

I went back to the tutorial page and it has been significantly changed, so I can not figure out what I might need to undo now. I found a folder that I must have made when doing the tutorial called "MS Mail temp hide" and in it are 4 subfolders: Backup, Local Folders, Microsoft Communities, Stationery and then some files with .jrs .pat .log .chk and some other extensions.

Should I move this folder back somewhere else? I want to export my Window Mail emails and folders into Outlook 2010 and have it all set up the same way. I have an archive of old emails that I need to access from time to time, I have them sorted into folders (both incoming and sent).

I tried the "export" to Microsoft Exchange in Windows Mail, following a web page the people here had linked to and it didn't work. I got an error that said "The export could not be performed. An error occurred while initializing MAPI" and I wonder if this temp hide folder move was the cause of this error.

thanks