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@endeavor

If you and your friend were both using the same email client with the same settings, you would be fine.

Thank you for your reply. I've considered making those changes on my end, but I have to be honest. My friend is older than I am, and I am older than dirt. I'm not sure I could get her to do the same. One of her sons actually takes care of any computer problems and/or upgrades and patches that need to be done. I'm certain he would not be interested in using this "special" version of Windows Mail; and I'm not interested in using Outlook or Windows 10.



I have felt pretty sure that any "fix" of the problem between our emails would be on me, but I thought I'd give it one more chance. OE Classic is okay and it will serve my purposes. But I truly will miss the beauty of Windows Mail.

endeavor said:

Honestly it does not matter if she uses the same client as you, I should not have said that.
Even if she does not make any changes, but as long as YOU do and Send to her in Plain Text, then her Outlook client is set to automatically reply to any sender (you) in the same format as it is received in, and so then, in your case then the problem is solved = just send to her in Plain Text.
You asked a question, I gave you the answer, proceed to make the 2 sec option change. You can put it back any time you want. Or if you want to leave yours default HTML for all else, then just for her after your create your email, do what it shows in screenshot #3 and change that message format, to Plain Text.

Thank you! I may just try it on my end now that you've explained that this should fix the problem on "her" end even if she does nothing to her settings.

Hello to All,
I ran the latest batch file on an old Windows 7 computer. It looked to
work fine, but I am having problems with encoding, blocked images, Message in HTML, and Text Size.
From the main window if I click on VIEW/ Encoding, the program will shut down.
Also some emails will not display images. I have spent considerable time checking settings.
I ran the latest batch file again and no help.
Is there any way to do a fresh reload? Or any suggestions.
Thanks,
Don

Donz said:

I am having problems with encoding, blocked images, Message in HTML
Also some emails will not display images

Hi Donz,

Remember you should save your original settings after your WinMail is all setup the way you want, and you can export that from regedit @
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail
..and then you can use (merge) that reg on each successive new install for convenience.
It contains All Settings for the WinMail GUI Layout ..all Tools> Options Settings, Columns, Rules, etc.
Heck I barley remember all those GUI settings myself, don't want to, and so when installing on a new WinMail installation I just merge my backup reg and it's done.

But if doing for the first time without a backup, then individually of course as far as your Images and HTML, that would be most likely from this setting: screenshot:



As far as text size there a a few places, like from the top tab View> Text Size ...small to large
Otherwise you can set others in Tools> Options> Send ...and you see you have text settings in there too.
When you have WinMail fully setup the way you want to, always always make a backup of all your GUI settings, and of course of your message store folder too as outlined in WinMail Backup/Restore Procedures (scroll down to see the heading) ..which are on the Errata page for Win7 Here

endeavor,

Thanks for the reply.
The check mark in the photo above was one of the first places I looked.

Is there any way to do a fresh reload?
Or any suggestions, as I don't have a backup of the Windows Mail .reg file. (mine may have problems)
I do have copies of original Windows Mail folders from ....Program Files..., and X86.. Before the batch file was run.
Thanks,

Don

Donz said:

Is there any way to do a fresh reload?

Do you mean everything in WinMail totally back to day one as if the the OS was just fresh installed, starting from WinMail scratch? ...Yes there is a way and depending on your skill level, but I'm not going to tell you to do that since it is drastic and I don't want to be responsible if you don't get it, that by deleting that entire folder registry key mentioned, and the entire MSF (neither touches any program/system files) ...so that when you start WM up it's like the first time on a fresh install of the OS and WM recreates itself registry anew, and with having no accounts, no settings, emails, nothing and just a stock MSF ..and you have to set WM up totally from scratch again. Do you really need to do that? Backup that registry key and the MSF first, because if your issue is with something else: other program, malware, whatever, then it'll be all for nothing since it won't fix it - and it takes a long p.i.t.a while to set everything all up in WM again to your liking.
Why not just do a System Restore to the day before it broke, but speaking of what broke Donz, you really are not giving enough information as to what's wrong, so show screenshots of each of your problems and explain in better detail please. Besides it's so easy to do a System Restore, or better yet restore a backup partition image to the last time you created one from when it was working fine

I do have copies of original Windows Mail folders from ....Program Files..., and X86..

x86 folder? ...well you know that x64 users never touch or use that other folder there called: ''Programs Folder (x86)'' Work is only done in the "Program Files\Windows Mail" folder only, besides there is nothing in there before or after running the batch, that is going to cause your problem with html or images since as you know running the batch with typing the line (yours is x64 bit right) ..win64mail... then file-wise it only swaps out the 64bit version of the msoe.dll in the correct folder. Did you do something else? Did you change files out in that ''Programs Folder (x86)'' by mistake, or the standard folder, or did something else? Explain all of what you did Donz

From the main window if I click on VIEW/ Encoding, the program will shut down

That's a first, and I don't get that at all without knowing what was done on this computer you are talking about... seems there is more to this?
Is this Your computer Donz? Please explain more details
Again, show screenshots of each of your problems and explain with full better details for good communication please.

endeavor,

First of all I would like to thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. It is appreciated beyond words.

Regarding my issue, the check mark above was the first thing that I looked at along with many other settings.
Strange thing, when I check and uncheck that box It doesn't trigger an Apply?

The two attached photos show what's grayed out. Main window and message window.



Another strange thing is that I started up an old Vista laptop to verify my so-called problem, and what I found was that the issue existed on it as well. (the original WM) Same stuff grayed out. Same thing when I click on grayed out Encoding, An error message/shutdown of WM, or a restart.
This stuff may have existed forever and it's just that I never paid attention to it. The only reason that I did now was I couldn't view some email images within the message. Just a placeholder. (Both Thunderbird and Gmail show images normally)
Could this be a Windows Update thing? Or something unknown.
Yes, I was considering a total reload of WM, and/or a total reload of Win 7.
Now, I'll just leave things alone and probably keep looking for some setting that is preventing images in some email messages.
It would be interesting to know if there are any other users of WM that would encounter a shutdown and/or a restart of WM when Encoding is clicked on the main WM window.

Thank You AGAIN for your help.
Don