windows 7 mail

There is a link right on the Windows 7 page for the Windows Mail/Messenger install:

Essentials - Windows Live

Windows Live Mail is nearly identical to Windows Mail. Don't confuse it with the web based service. It is a standalone program. There is no need to try and make Windows Mail work on Seven.

A windows mail user (or Outlook Express user) would be very comfortable using Windows Live Mail under Seven. It has basically the same features with an enhanced visual design (subjective I presume).

Mr GRiM said:

You don't need to upgrade to get it to work, you just need to have the Vista files to replace the ones in Seven and I made a tutorial for this Months ago here. Windows Mail

Thank you Mr Grim

I didn't look back that far.

I like that take ownership thingy. I have downloaded it but not tried it yet.

As you can see, I am new to this forum and my only other post was to try and get some help with recovering email histories which seem to be stuck in the Winmail storage folder and are not imported when the folder is??

https://www.sevenforums.com/general-d...tml#post132080

Do you have any ideas about that?

Best regards

Bobthequill

I cant get this to work had no trouble with it on my x86 puter then tried the same thing on my other puter which is x64 and it just froze when i tried to launch the exe any suggestions?I used this tutorial Windows Mail

Worked for me thankyou

It turned out that the culprit was Outlook.

To transfer out of windows mail, you need to transfer to Outlook and then onward to your selected email program. I had a triple boot setup, XP, Vista and Win 7. and was trying to transfer my email histories from Vista into Win 7.

I was running MS Office Home and Student, which does not have Outlook, so I loaded Outlook from my older Office XP Pro disk. I only installed Outlook, not the whole Office files and that was what caused the problem. My email histories transferred OK but were corrupted and I could not open them in Windows mail or Thunderbird under Win 7. In fact, they could not even be viewed.

I went back and loaded the whole of Office XP Pro and Outlook then did its transfer job correctly. I hope this helps someone caught in the same situation.

After dabbling in Thunderbird, I quite liked it and have decided to stay with it.

I perhaps should not be that enthusiastic about transferring everything to Win 7 RC, as shortly, the real Win 7 will be available and I understand an upgrade from the RC version is not possible.

Bobthequill