Windows Mail

Thanks endeavor for your answer,
you know sometimes small things can drive you mad when there is no explanation ...
i just wanted to be sure i'm doing things fine.
thanks for patience as well.

prukeyhi said:

Windows mail is missing/blank from Open With window
Hi all
after reinstate windows mail into 2 machine (all works fine now )
i noticed in one machine that windows mail is absent from "open with" window,
even though it is present in default program->associate file types or protocol....
How can i fix that?
i think its a registry key but its only a guess
*windows mail is default mail
i really want to avoid reinstate windows mail again...
Thanks!

I want to answer that question this long way around please, just so you will get used to where to post and where to look for answers for WinMail problems on Windows 7
On Page1 of the very First Post in this thread, and up on top one of the very first lines it says:
Please see the Errata post...
Click that Errata link please - which brings to the Errata (Bugs List) post, and scroll down about half the page to where it says:
<~ If for some reason your right click on a file and.....>
...now right after that you will see where it says Screenshot 1 or Screenshot 2 - I think your issue is Screenshot 2 and so click it and follow the detail of what it suggests... ...and then post back here with how you made out.

-i did not install another email application.
-merged the winmailedit.reg did not help...
- i do have have WinMail set as default
-All works fine besides the missing icon in that box (small issue but annoying)
If you'll come up with something pleas e let me know
Thanks for your help
i appreciate it !

~fwiw, a lot if various parameters are set upon first use, I've seen (actually tracked) dozens (sometimes hundreds) of entries get set as each function of WinMail is used for the 'first time' after setup ..and so please just for gp, follow through completely with using the Send To: Mail Recipient
..send to: a file to yourself in an email, but just follow though using the function to see if that position sets.

~Also for gp, take a screenshot on what your pc shows, of what yours shows compared to what the 'bottom' of my 'screenshot 2' shows with those three boxes check marks set (I just want to see it is all)

~Also for gp, do this to check, right click in the open on your Desktop, create New> Text Document ...and rename it something like test.txt, and now rename the extension of it to txt.eml, then if not immediately or about 15 seconds it should now change and show itself with the WM icon, and then when you right click it, and up in the column list, select "Open With" and see if you have WinMail listed in there? ...if it is (or browse it there) and select it, and click OK - I just want to go through with the process to set inner workings .. (no need to open it after since it's not a real email file, but if/when you actually file>save a particular email out of WM to your desktop, is when at that time it will open and you can read it normally (I use that function a lot))

...I can't think of anything else right now, but the answer is simple in this case; however again, and Importantly, if everything is working fine is what matters! ..with this WinMail re-instated on Win7 process, and you can just file this small issue of yours as another one for your post #1762 list ...LoL

screen 1 - upon renaming to .eml the icon is changing.
right click show no menu ,when i hit the line "open with.." from the menu there is no recommended program and i get the list of programs not including windows mail. (So it's the 2nd place where windows mail is not shown in the program box )
in my second win 7 machine -right click show no menu,but upon hit the line "open with.." windows mail is the chosen marked recommended program.
screen 2 - you asked for three boxes check.
screen 3- if i hit twice the icon .eml it opens a mail window as you see.
screen 4 - something totally weird
after right click the .eml i got the list of programs (as in screen 1)i choose "browse" and selected "WinMail.exe" .when i hit it Anydvd was chosen, i tried again to re select WinMail.exe but Anydvd was chosen instead...
* .eml - does not appear in "associate a file type or protocol with a program" in both win7 machine.
At this point i did a system restore back to the point i started .
-i think that WinMail.exe or other component of windows mail is not register as it should be, and i have no clue why Anydvd was chosen....

(..just a fyi, sometimes (but not always) with big or many screenshots, for the forum rendering sake you can just put a link in like i did, and that's why i did it like that..)

prukeyhi said:

screen 4 - something totally weird
after right click the .eml i got the list of programs (as in screen 1)i choose "browse" and selected "WinMail.exe" .when i hit it Anydvd was chosen, i tried again to re select WinMail.exe but Anydvd was chosen instead...
* .eml - does not appear in "associate a file type or protocol with a program" in both win7 machine.

At this point i did a system restore back to the point i started.

Okay to your screenshots, and that's why I had you go through those motions of different things and screenshots so we could visually see what anomalies show up, just like we see there, which is your answer.

Now, that's an old version of SlyFox AnyDVD and not the new RedFox version which is certainly fine! ...but my point is, depending on what version and most importantly where you got it from (it's not my business) ..but my point is that there are versions of SlyFox installers out there that do not 'hash check' or verify to the original, or patches, etc, that have viruses in them that will cause all kinds of havoc. Otherwise if everything is legit well then you have other issues, which are not WinMail thread related.

Anyway you did the right thing to do a restore for sure, but what kind of restore?
Hopefully you have a complete OS backup partition image restore that's old enough to get back to a point Before the offending problems were introduced that will set you free, especially if it's a virus or trojan not identifiable by current methods, then going back is imperative! ..imho

thanks for your screen shot advice,
-Anydvd is fine, the same version is on my 2nd machine so i do not think that's the issue.
- i did system restore(windows build in) and i use backup constantly on ext . hard drive.
-virus or trojan malware are out of the question - i use constantly MBAM, MSE, ESET online 1/month.
so we could not solve the issue unfortunately
though i do wonder why program box (open with) does not including windows mail
maybe it'll fix by itself somehow...
Thanks again for your dedicated help!
Cheers

As for your AV I said not currently identifiable no matter what you have installed, but if your sure it's not that then okay good. Anyway you have something wrong, and so you can not rule anything out so easily.
Your issue is not going to fix itself though. Hopefully it's simple.

A full OS partition backup to a point in time, I'd guess to before you installed AnyDVD, will fix it.

(fwiw to your previous message .eml is not listed in my association list either, but it's Not the problem anyway)

I doubt it, but you also could have corrupted icons fixable by Options 1 on this tutorial:
Icon Cache - Rebuild
..or icons association could be corrupted, but you would think that many would be off.

When I previously said merge the WinMailEdit.reg, I specifically meant the current one dated 6/1/2015 out of the TutReWinMail folder - I'll assume that's the one you did.

I've said this before and I'll say it again that re-instating WinMail is really simple and takes just a few minutes, and when it's done on a fresh install of Windows 7 (or method for 8 or 10) it will Not have any of these problems!
It actually takes longer to type this message than it does to re-instate WinMail

These problems you are having are not caused by WinMail. It's something you inadvertently did as evidenced by what's showing on your last screenshot.