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Windows Mail in Windows 7
I am coming from Outlook Express (yeah, yeah, all jokes aside) to Windows 7. I have previously tried Windows Live Mail and I don't like it or the way it handles things. I'd love to use Thunderbird but it doesn't run as stable as I'd like. So, I'm back to good 'ole Windows Mail. Then I find out it doesn't exist in Windows 7. Great!
I've been through all the threads--this one, this one, and this one--and I can't find anyone else with my problem, so I hope you can help me! I've already replaced my files several times, restored the Windows 7 files, etc. I've tried many things already!
Background, I'm running Windows 7 x64. Although no one has confirmed this, my suspicion about my problem is that I'm trying to run x86 Windows Mail files on a x64 machine.
When I try to run WinMail.exe from the Program Files x86 directory,it starts infinitely opens WinMail.exe *32 for at least 5 minutes. Then, after a climax of between 4000-6000 WinMail.exe *32 processes, it retreats and slowly starts shutting down all the processes.
I tried to quit the process tree but then a small window pops up and say that it's an invalid process to quit.
After a normal reboot (and after waiting for several minutes for my processes to go back down to normal and all the WinMail.exe processes to shut off), I tried it again and the same thing happens.
I also get the same exact reaction from the 64bit WinMail.exe file in the regular Windows Mail folder.
I right-clicked on one of the processes and it produced a dump file called WinMail.DMP that's 37MB big!!
This is nuts!
I found another copy of Windows 7, copied the Windows Mail directory and completely overwrote both x86 and x64 directories with these other files. So I now do not have any Windows Mail files from Vista. I still get the same problem with both directories trying to execute WinMail.exe. I'm baffled.
Maybe I just need to get ahold of original x64 Windows Mail directory files and folder?