Windows 7: Windows Mail

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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.

KEW,

In Internet Explorer.
Above your address window, right click and be sure Menu Bar, Favorites, Command and Status Bar are checked.
Click Tools, Internet Options, Progams tab, Internet programs Set Programs, Set Your Default Programs.

Good Luck

Don

kewl1,

If you are going to install SP1 you should do it Before you activate WM, otherwise you will need to run the tutorial again so that it can set everything straight again.

Running the tutorial on page 1 will fix All of your problems mentioned.

If you just wanted to set the Default Programs listing separately then if you look a few posts back to Post 1292 at its screenshot shows you what to do to set WM as the default email client.

Also Yes! you can use the SFC tool with WM just fine going forward without it breaking WM again ...and this is why you should just run the tutorial on Page 1 again because it will reinstate the necessary registry keys needed to prevent SFC from changing out the msoe..dll which will will break WM as you've just found out, and it will also reinstate the correct msoe...dll so that WM will work correctly.

Again, run the tutorial on Page 1 to fix it.

@kewl1: Yes, that is why there are new instructions.

Issues in version 1 and version 2 of the tut were resolved. You are experiencing those same problems because you decided to run outdated instructions and you didn't find the posts that contained the fixes for the old version. I think you hit the two biggies (SP1 and default pgm) but there are others lurking (and fixed somewhere in the first 1229 posts)

All of the fixes are incorporated into the current tut (version 3) - so you don't have to hunt for them. The current tut doesn't affect user data so you can run it at any time. There are also custom reg files included to solve both the SFC issue you experienced and to turn off the splash screen.

I will try to help you if other questions/issues arise and if they relate to the current tut. Try to be specific.... "I tried to run the batch file, but it didn't work" won't help me help you.

@endeavor: The tut can be executed at any given point, before or after service packs. It is redundant and confusing to create reg files for every fix - the fixes are already included - just run the tutorial.

I suppose our approaches are different. If anyone is going to reinstall SP1, they should run the WinMail tut again too. Why take a piece meal approach for WinMail - you didn't with SP1 (incorporates all updates since RTM).

So, to keep it simple - run the tut is my answer, just as I would tell people to install SP1 instead of the 100s of individual updates.

As you can attest - the tut works, it's accurate, it's complete and it's safe. I think that if people try to pick and choose what to apply, then the tut becomes as confusing as the previous version.

Please recommend people run the tut. When a new issue does arise or people need operational help (i.e. editing in a command prompt) those are things I will address.