Windows 7: Windows Mail

OK, thanks my friend. I guess I'm anal about having to hit only one button which is going to check one out of the two things I'm not going to do which is send mail.

I follwed the instructions for getting Windows Mail running in WIN 7.
All went well except for one thing.
Winmail.exe can not be seen. I can not create the shortcut.
I did exicute the attrib instruction twice to unhide the file if that is what it does.

Can you help?

Thank Mike
mtobias@verifiedtech.com

It covers this situation in Note 1 of Step 3 of the tutorial, which says:

*Note 1: If WinMail.exe file is not visible in Windows Mail folder, then apply "Footnote 4" below.

Footnote 4 gives step by step instructions on how to make WinMail.exe visible. You will find this footnote at the bottom of the first page of the main tutorial.

Hope this helps. PB

it works

In Windows 7 this is the correct way to show hidden files.

1. Start Orb
2. Control Panel
3. Appearance and Personalization (Click on main text)
4. Folder Options - Select "show hidden files"
5. Select Radio button "show hidden files,folders and drives)
6. Uncheck " Hide extensions for know file types"
7. Uncheck " Hide protect system operating files"
Click OK

Please update the footnote.
Thanks
Mike

The instructions say:
Dot: Show hidden files, folders...
Untick: Hide empty drives... Hide extensions... Hide protected operating...

Are you worried about the missing "click ok" or the extra empty drives thing, or the path to the folder options? (There are many paths to folder options.)

Exactly!
Start > Run > control folders

Roncerr and GregS have really said it all... thanks guys, the tutorial lives on! However, since I'm the "3rd Musketeer", , and for the sake of completeness, this is the full text of Footnote 4, which does actually say click OK:

• Go to: Start Orb ==> Computer ==> C: Drive ==> Program Files ==> Open: Windows Mail ==> Top Task Bar ==> Tools ==> Drop down menu ==> Folder Options ==> View Tab
• Dot: Show hidden files, folders...
• Untick: Hide empty drives... Hide extensions... Hide protected operating...
• In response to the warning click: Yes ==> Apply ==> OK.
• After all the steps are done, restore default view settings.

1. This footnote is written in the context of Step 3 of the Turorial, in which you are working in the Windows Mail folder. And this is the folder you'll need open in the next step to create the shortcut to the desktop once you've made WinMail.exe visible. So that's why the Control Panel option was not chosen.

2. It is written for people like myself who are not so computer literate, and need to have it spelled out step by step. And that's exactly why a red lettered warning was placed in that step leading to the footnote, which you missed and to which I alerted you a few posts back.

Off topic: Hey Greg, thanks for the heads up on that Run box command to show folder options. I didn't know about that, and it's a great little shortcut.

Cheers PB

As mentioned by roncerr, that's only another one of many ways to get at the Folder Options.

Typing "control folders" in the start search box also works. (Thanks for the clue that led me to try that!) Now all we need is a shortcut to hide/unhide protected OS files directly.