Windows Mail

Tumbleweed said:

I was about to give up. This worked like a charm! I have my WinMail back and could not be happier. Thanks to Mark for publishing the fix and thanks to Poppa Bear for the updated fix! Great work guys!

Hey that's great. And a special thanks to Greg S who pioneered the modified tutorial!

Cheers PB

There are a lot of posts to this thread. I am ready to migrate to Win7 from Vista (I have a Win7 CD) and want to be sure I do everything necessary to have Win Mail work when I am finished. Which post (or posts) of this thread do I need to follow to get the job done properly?
Thanks,
Dick

I used the tutorial on the first page and got mine working, first attempt =)

I did a custom install (clean install) of Windows 7.

dickmiles said:

There are a lot of posts to this thread. I am ready to migrate to Win7 from Vista (I have a Win7 CD) and want to be sure I do everything necessary to have Win Mail work when I am finished. Which post (or posts) of this thread do I need to follow to get the job done properly?
Thanks,
Dick

Once you have your new installation of Windows 7 up and running, use the modified version at the very beginning of this tutorial taking care to follow the steps exactly as shown. You don't need any Vista files to enable Windows Mail application. Everything is there, including the required Vista msoe.dll file in either 32 or 64bit.

• If you are loading a 64bit version of Windows 7, be sure to read Footnote 3 at the bottom of the tutorial.
• Do not attempt to open WinMail.exe until you have completely finished the steps of the tutorial.
• Steps 5 & 6 show how to import Windows Calendar and make it run in WinMail.exe interface; and the simple way to import all your Vista emails, contacts, and personal folders.

Cheers PB

for enabling windows mail use post #317 here Windows Mail and for import contacts and mails use post #374 here Windows Mail

Nice one Mark, clear and concise help!
I'm a new comer to Windows 7, directly from Windows XP Pro, I gave Vista a wide birth as i'd heard nothing good about it.
But i'm impressed with Win7 so far and always appreciate the time taken by people like yourself to get a forum together.
Thanks again m8 :)
Markkyboy

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2CR LZW said:

As a general aside, I do know Microsoft take notice of consumer feed-back. A few years ago I had a row with MS Australia re activation of WinXP when experimenting with multiple partitions and OSs. I also criticised the fact that the auto options for optical drives had not worked properly in all versions from Win98 to XP, and asked how to turn it off completely. They wanted to charge me $50 for a techo to tell me how to do this, to which I strongly objected. And finally, I pointed out that it was not possible to make a partition active using the Repair utility on boot up from the XP installation CD.

Cheers PB

It might be a good idea if an online survey is posted somewhere on this forum to find out how many members are unhappy with the windows live mail.

Thank you I couldn't live withouth my Windows Mail !!!!!!!!!!

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poppa bear said:

2CR LZW said:

As a general aside, I do know Microsoft take notice of consumer feed-back. A few years ago I had a row with MS Australia re activation of WinXP when experimenting with multiple partitions and OSs. I also criticised the fact that the auto options for optical drives had not worked properly in all versions from Win98 to XP, and asked how to turn it off completely. They wanted to charge me $50 for a techo to tell me how to do this, to which I strongly objected. And finally, I pointed out that it was not possible to make a partition active using the Repair utility on boot up from the XP installation CD.

Cheers PB

It might be a good idea if an online survey is posted somewhere on this forum to find out how many members are unhappy with the windows live mail.

yes it woluld be a good idea can someone make a voiting with google docs ?

poppa bear said:

Modified Method to Enable Windows Mail in Windows 7

Hope this helps. Cheers PB

Came here since there are no Windows 7 newsgroups and am trying to revert back to Windows Mail. Tried WLM but the IMAP folder display sucks (esp. the "download" button). Contacts suck even more with the 3 locations: web, contacts folder, and WLM local contacts folder. Also the constant reminder to "sigh in" to hotmail to see my contacts that are on line but not the local ones.

One thing that wories me is the start of your procedure calls for running an extensive registry edit file. But what if I have to stop using it due to M$ sabotage or something else unforseen. There is no "undo" registry file. Will that matter if I need to revert back to doing a clean install of WLM or some other emal program?