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  1. Donz
    Posts : 49
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64
       New #1780

    4Winner,

    This is just an amateur opinion. I'm by no means an expert on this.

    I have been away from this for a long time, but still enjoying Windows Mail on 7.

    It looks to me that something is wrong with the TutReWinMail folder in your Downloads.
    It shows it as a "Compressed Zip folder" . Should be "File folder".
    Looks to me that it's zipped.

    I suggest right clicking the original downloaded zipped folder Win74umsZip.zip, (in Downloads) and Extract All.
    Making sure it extracts to the same folder that you are in (Downloads)
    You should then see TutReWinMail File folder.

    You may have to delete the existing TutReWinMail Compressed Zip folder or rename it.

    And run the batch file again.

    Again, This is just an amateur opinion. I'm by no means an expert on this.

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  3. Banyarola
    Posts : 127
    Windows 7 64 bit
       New #1781

    I had it running once but gave it up because there are no security updates to it...
    Go with Thunderbird, you'll bet better off and safer too.
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  4. endeavor
    Posts : 313
    Vista/Win7/8/10/11 (x86/x64)
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    4winners said:
    I've followed the instructions on reinstating Windows Mail in Windows 7 numerous times but I'm unable to get past the command prompt "system cannot find the path specified". The file is where it's supposed to be so not sure what the problem is - am I forgetting something?
    First of all 4winners, welcome to the SevenForums !

    I see what the problem is and your mouse actually has it highlighted in your screenshot, which is that ''TutReWinMail'' still shows as a zip file. And so the answer is you never extracted it yet, for the command line process to be able to access the folders contents to do its work - Donz is absolutely right

    As for what Banyarola said, well, they don't use WinMail anymore so consider the source; however their point is well taken and is an understood known factor for us long time WinMail users, who understand all the subtleties of using it as is..

    Anyway, the procedure is foolproof I thought, and as the instructions say in step 2
    "Extract the TutReWinMail.zip into your user Downloads folder"
    If you did that (which it seems you didn't) then the rest would be a success to move forward.
    Remember this procedure is more for advanced users with moderate computer experience, who understand what's said in the disclaimer/warning article on page 1, and have the technical ability to move forward.

    Thank you



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  5. 4winners
    Posts : 2
    windows 7 home premium 64 bit
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    RE: Administrator command prompt can't find path


    Yes that was it - Thanks endeavour and Donz. Appreciate your input.

    I have all my winmail files backed up from a 32bit vista going into a 64bit W7 and I am now learning that may be problematic - so I haven't continued past the command prompt yet. Anyone know if that will in fact be an issue and if so is there a work around?
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  7. endeavor
    Posts : 313
    Vista/Win7/8/10/11 (x86/x64)
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    You need to be much more specific with your general questions for me to understand what your problem is; we can't know what you are thinking, so please detail out the problems better. Remember WinMail is not supported and so you need to be your own research tech for it. Please make sure first you have read and understand all the things listed in the Errata (bug list) link given at the beginning of the Page 1 tutorial, which goes over the problems of using WinMail on Win7 x86 x64

    Otherwise as far as the initial setup of WinMail whether x86 or x64, everything necessary is all taken care of automatically by the tutorial process for each command prompt entry, either winmail32 or win64mail. That's the very easy part of reinstating Vista WinMail on Windows 7 to get it up and running first. Then the hardest part (of any email client) is setting up all the Options and Accounts, which I don't cover in this thread, but it's the same as when You first setup WinMail in Vista yourself.

    Besides that, I would also consider (along with whatever else you saved) is to preserve your original message store folder on your Vista setup, and zip it, so that no matter what you may do wrong or right, that zip file preserves the original store up to the day you saved it; only use its extracted folder to play with - what I'm talking about is zipping the folder:
    C:\Users\...yourcomputername...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail
    ..and saving it aside. Also going forward after it's all setup on Win7, is to occasionally save (zip/rar) that same folder every so often keeping it dated. I can't tell you how many times this can come in handy and save the day. You can never have enough backups, and best yet is a partition backup.

    good luck 4winners



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  8. Collin2011
    Posts : 101
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 / Windows 10 Home x64
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    Or you know...install WLE 2012. I dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 10 and all I did was install the last version of WLE and WLM works like a charm no hacking needed.
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  9. az87aris
    Posts : 1
    windows 10
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    Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having with this.

    A few months ago I followed all the steps with TutReWinMail and it worked perfectly, I'd been using Windows Mail on Windows 10 without any issues until today. I have had multiple reminders popping up saying a new Windows 10 update was ready be installed with new features.

    I kept ignoring these reminders and put it off for a couple of weeks but had one reminder too many today and went ahead with the update to make them stop. Once the update had finished I noticed straight away that Windows Mail had vanished and so had to go through the whole process of adding it again and following this method again to get it to work.

    It's now installed and I've followed all the steps again but it just will not work. When I click the WinMail shortcut nothing appears to happen, it doesn't open but my laptop slowed down really badly and became almost unusable. I opened Task Manager to find that Windows Mail was listed over 100 times as a background app and was still increasing in number so had to shut down and restart the machine.

    I've tried to open it a couple of times and it always does the same. I'll be lost without Windows Mail and hate the Windows 10 Mail app.

    Does anyone have any ideas on why it would do this and how I can get it to work again?

    Many thanks!
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  11. endeavor
    Posts : 313
    Vista/Win7/8/10/11 (x86/x64)
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       New #1787

    Hello az87aris and welcome to the SevenForums,

    Since the Windows 7 tutorial will not work to reinstate WinMail in Windows 8/10, I think you mistakenly posted in the wrong forum but no problem though.
    The answers to your questions have been explained over in the Eight Forums WinMail thread which addresses each one! of your specific questions. (Basically because of your new update, you just need to re-run that tutorial over again, to get it working)

    If you have any further questions please finish asking your questions there since this forum is only for Windows 7 WinMail users.

    Thank you

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  12. erwwwed43
    Posts : 4
    Win 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
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    We have Windows Mail on a Win 7 x64 Pro system. Have had this for about 10 years, works fine, wouldn't be without it. Installed via the instructions here. Thanks for the instructions.

    Recently decided to change system's HD for one of larger capacity. Backed up system with Macrium Reflect. Used cloning software from Apricon. Swapped HDs. Programs that I tested seemed to work, except Win Mail. Received messages as noted below regarding WindowsMail.MSMessageStore ...

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    First message: Windows Mail could not be started. The application was unable to open the Windows Mail message store. Windows Mail was unable to locate its message database. If you've moved the database files to a new location, click OK to reset the database path to that location. Otherwise, click Cancel to proceed, any existing messages found will be available under Orphaned Accounts. (0x00000000)
    Click ok then get....

    Second Message:
    Windows Mail could not be started. The application was unable to open the Windows Mail Message store. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk is full. (0x800700002) Click ok program closes.
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    I know where the messagestore is supposed to be. I copied the bu to the 'regular' location. No help.

    Copied all the Win Mail files from the Macrium Reflect copy to the new HD. No help. It appears that Win Mail deletes what ever I do as it tries to open the program.

    Any ideas? Thanks.
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  13. erwwwed43
    Posts : 4
    Win 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
       New #1789

    endeavor,

    Thanks for the reply

    As mentioned above copying all WinMail folders and files was no help. This includes WindowsMail.MSMesageStore.

    Read post $368, 369, etc. on eightforums. Error msgs seem same. Folders under userprofile\..\..\..\Windows Mail showing as dates are placed there by winmail when it tries to open/find msgstore and dies. Every time i tried to open WinMail on the cloned HD I received a new folder like that.

    I may try a different clone pgm. Will also compare registry settings, although I do not know why that would be affected if clone works.

    FWIW pls fwd copy of wmutil151.zip.
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