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Winmail setup ok in Windows 7 but UI disappeared
Hi, I hope someone can help me, I'm not sure if it's something daft I've done but whatever's caused it it's winding me up! I have just got a new PC which has Windows 7 on it, haven't used it before and definitely want to run WinMail on it. I followed the instructions from Windows Mail (thank you) and it seemed to work fine. Because I had rescued my emails from a knackered Vista laptop, it was just the messages I was worried about, so I imported them into Winmail and set about setting up all my accounts and rules. It took me a while but I got there in the end. I was happily using it for a couple of days (pc had been rebooted in that time) but yesterday I let it do some Windows updates on startup and now Winmail has started doing something rather strange.
When I double-click Winmail, it appears to do nothing, but in fact it is downloading my emails and I get a 'you have new mail' icon bottom right. Also if I disconnect from the internet I get the usual failure message, but no Winmail UI so I just can't get to my emails. In task manager it doesn't show an app running, but shows winmail in the processes list. I wondered if it had just put it 'out of sight', but Alt-tabbing doesn't show anything.
I don't really know if it's related to the Windows updates, I actually uninstalled them again but it made no difference. I've since actually removed any Windows Live stuff listed in Programs in case there was a conflict, but still no good.
Does anyone have any ideas please? I could start again but I don't want to lose the emails that have downloaded into thin air over the past 2 days and obviously I want to avoid the same thing happening again:-(
Jan
ps only WinMail (or even OE!) are of interest to me, because they do exactly what I want. I do know of other apps.