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garysgold · Nov 9, 2008

Glad to hear that. I'm not a big fan of Live Mail although I'll try it again sometime.

Gary

davehc · Nov 10, 2008

That probably explains the mystery of my installation. I have ownership of all the files in the OS.- Makes it easier for testing.
Anyway. I have finally dumped it. insurmountable graphic problems for the moment in my expensive computer. I've run out of budget to upgrade any hardware (yet again) so I'll have to hang loose for a while until something better occurs.

garysgold · Nov 14, 2008

Took 2 tries, but I got it to work.

Gary

garysgold · Nov 15, 2008

I have just tried to set windows mail as the default program for .eml extension. W7 won't allow me to do that. When I browse for a program and select winmail.exe, it is not loaded into the list to select.

Anyone else tried this? The workaround is to drag the file into inbox which will then open.

Gary

chinga69 · Nov 28, 2008

hi all i have dual boot and have my mail folder set on a different drive so which ever system i have booted into i can access the mail.
so i have been able to get mail working in win7 so thought i would use the same mail folder which worked ok
until i booted back into vista where i found mail would no longer work.
so just thought i would post here so someone else doesn't get caught

cheers brad

ps im booting xp /vista32 /vista 64 and now win7

MegaFixer · Nov 29, 2008

chinga69 said:
until i booted back into vista where i found mail would no longer work.

When you are in a Vista, can you run W7's winmail.exe to access your mail folder?

chinga69 · Nov 29, 2008

no i tried that it starts but cant finish it acts the same as winmail in 7 before you apply the fix

MegaFixer · Nov 29, 2008

check this out http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/431-enabling-windows-mail-windows-7-a-2.html#post3888

chinga69 · Nov 29, 2008

thats fine i have fixed it i posted so others dont get caught with the same problem

MegaFixer · Nov 29, 2008

So, now you can run Windows mail from W7 on Vista, right?

chinga69 · Nov 29, 2008

MegaFixer said:
So, now you can run Windows mail from W7 on Vista, right?

no i run them separately
i run win7 mail using a separate storage folder
and vista has its own folder and both folders are on my 1.5 gig active boot partition
so if one of my op systems go south i just reinstall and point to that folder

cheers brad

davehc · Nov 29, 2008

Right on, chinga. Heres mine on my spare disk.

MegaFixer · Nov 29, 2008

Can someone test if W7's Windows Mail is working in Vista/XP?

chinga69 · Nov 29, 2008

MegaFixer said:
Can someone test if W7's Windows Mail is working in Vista/XP?

what do you mean ?

can the win mail exe be copied to vista xp and run from there ?

MegaFixer · Nov 29, 2008

just tried it myself. it doesn't work( the "ocinstallshowoe.exe" runs vista's windows mail, not w7's, and without this patch the w7's winmail doesn't want to start as it thinks it is "disabled" or something like that..

anyway, thanx)

chinga69 · Nov 29, 2008

MegaFixer said:
just tried it myself. it doesn't work( the "ocinstallshowoe.exe" runs vista's windows mail, not w7's, and without this patch the w7's winmail doesn't want to start as it thinks it is "disabled" or something like that..

anyway, thanx)

ok it does work

you have to make the win 7 mail folder first then boot in to vista and change to the win7 mail folder and it will work
the only thing is when you boot into each op system you have to redo your email account and password each time you change from vista or win7

cheers brad

ps when i change vista 32 to use the same location got message there had been a corruption but recovered
all except xp32 are now using same location with no problems
my xp only has outlook ver 6 installed so maybe later on i will update it and try it as well

MegaFixer · Nov 30, 2008

you have to make the win 7 mail folder first then boot in to vista and change to the win7 mail folder and it will work

how do i do that?

here what i do:
1) booted in Vista
2) open Program Files\Windows Mail on W7's drive
3) run winmail.exe and nothing, no Outlook

then I try to run outlook unlocker (ocinstallshowoe.exe) and it shows me Vista's Windows Mail

chinga69 · Nov 30, 2008

have you replaced the win7 mail folder contents with the vista mail folder contents

if not go back to page 2 of this thread and mr grim has posted what you need to do

Mark · Nov 30, 2008

I think you can just change the name of the Windows Mail folder in Windows 7 to Windows Mail (2) and then Just copy and paste the one from Vista and that does the same thing but it's a bit easier. Also just make sure when you rename the folder that you haven't got WinMail running in task manager or it might not let you rename it.

And if that does work then I'm sorry for telling every one else to do it the hard way, but at least it was a good exercise in taking ownership of your files

.

garysgold · Dec 8, 2008

I have gotten WM to work in the 6956 build.

Gary

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