I am getting fed up with this awful software Windows mail. I get errors with
it every day. Somtimes I can't delete mail, other times I can't move mail to
other folders. Sometimes a folder cannot be displayed at all. Every time to
get rid of these I have to reboot. Surely Microsoft must be working on
sorting out these problems. One only has to look at this forum to see the
huge number of problems users are having. How much longer do we have to wait ?

I wish I had never gone to Vista and Windows Mail. It is so so slow. Loading
some files on my new Dell laptop with 1gb memory, 120 gb disk & dual core
processor took 4 minutes as against 20 seconds on my wife's less powerful and
much older laptop running XP.

I am seriously thinking of abandoning Vista and going back to XP.

"ajforest" <(E-Mail Removed)> escribió en el mensaje de
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>I am getting fed up with this awful software Windows mail. I get errors
>with
> it every day. Somtimes I can't delete mail, other times I can't move mail
> to
> other folders. Sometimes a folder cannot be displayed at all. Every time
> to
> get rid of these I have to reboot. Surely Microsoft must be working on
> sorting out these problems. One only has to look at this forum to see the
> huge number of problems users are having. How much longer do we have to
> wait ?
>
> I wish I had never gone to Vista and Windows Mail. It is so so slow.
> Loading
> some files on my new Dell laptop with 1gb memory, 120 gb disk & dual core
> processor took 4 minutes as against 20 seconds on my wife's less powerful
> and
> much older laptop running XP.
>
> I am seriously thinking of abandoning Vista and going back to XP.

"ajforest" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9DFCDC12-AE8E-48AC-A0F9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am getting fed up with this awful software Windows mail. I get errors
>with
> it every day. Somtimes I can't delete mail, other times I can't move mail
> to
> other folders. Sometimes a folder cannot be displayed at all. Every time
> to
> get rid of these I have to reboot. Surely Microsoft must be working on
> sorting out these problems. One only has to look at this forum to see the
> huge number of problems users are having. How much longer do we have to
> wait ?
>
> I wish I had never gone to Vista and Windows Mail. It is so so slow.
> Loading
> some files on my new Dell laptop with 1gb memory, 120 gb disk & dual core
> processor took 4 minutes as against 20 seconds on my wife's less powerful
> and
> much older laptop running XP.
>
> I am seriously thinking of abandoning Vista and going back to XP.

I even downloaded the Windows Live mail program to see if it would work any
better with no luck. The best think I did was uninstall McAfee & the
performance increased dramatically but I still have no email on the
notebook. My only hope is that they have it fixed buy the time I take my
trip in the spring.

"ajforest" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9DFCDC12-AE8E-48AC-A0F9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am getting fed up with this awful software Windows mail. I get errors
>with
> it every day. Somtimes I can't delete mail, other times I can't move mail
> to
> other folders. Sometimes a folder cannot be displayed at all. Every time
> to
> get rid of these I have to reboot. Surely Microsoft must be working on
> sorting out these problems. One only has to look at this forum to see the
> huge number of problems users are having. How much longer do we have to
> wait ?
>
> I wish I had never gone to Vista and Windows Mail. It is so so slow.
> Loading
> some files on my new Dell laptop with 1gb memory, 120 gb disk & dual core
> processor took 4 minutes as against 20 seconds on my wife's less powerful
> and
> much older laptop running XP.
>
> I am seriously thinking of abandoning Vista and going back to XP.

I agree, Vista sucks. Took my neighbor to Thunderbird mail, almost like
Outlook Express.

"ajforest" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9DFCDC12-AE8E-48AC-A0F9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am getting fed up with this awful software Windows mail. I get errors
>with
> it every day. Somtimes I can't delete mail, other times I can't move mail
> to
> other folders. Sometimes a folder cannot be displayed at all. Every time
> to
> get rid of these I have to reboot. Surely Microsoft must be working on
> sorting out these problems. One only has to look at this forum to see the
> huge number of problems users are having. How much longer do we have to
> wait ?
>
> I wish I had never gone to Vista and Windows Mail. It is so so slow.
> Loading
> some files on my new Dell laptop with 1gb memory, 120 gb disk & dual core
> processor took 4 minutes as against 20 seconds on my wife's less powerful
> and
> much older laptop running XP.
>
> I am seriously thinking of abandoning Vista and going back to XP.

It has worked properly here since December.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE, OE/WM
I won't answer email.

"Jerry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I agree, Vista sucks. Took my neighbor to Thunderbird mail, almost like
> Outlook Express.
>

Since my Vista mail is corrupted & I don't expect Microsoft to fix it
anytime soon do you think Thunderbird mail will work? I hate to install it
to find the same result as with Windows mail.

"Boomer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Jerry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:470eb2c5$0$19608$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I agree, Vista sucks. Took my neighbor to Thunderbird mail, almost like
>> Outlook Express.
>>
>
> Since my Vista mail is corrupted & I don't expect Microsoft to fix it
> anytime soon do you think Thunderbird mail will work? I hate to install it
> to find the same result as with Windows mail.

I know it works because I installed it on my neighbors new HP with Vista.
The only problem I encountered was trying to bring his address book over
from Vista Mail. I had to export the Contacts list as a text file and then
import it into Thunderbird. Unfortunately it put the persons first and last
name into the first name field and their email address into the persons last
name field. But it was a simple matter of editing then one at a time and
doing some cutting and pasting.

Thunderbird will work. The only problem is that you'll have difficulty
importing anything from Windows Mail, such as account info, settings,
folder structure, saved emails, etc.

You may want to try out Windows Live Mail first, since it will import
almost everything automatically. Importing contacts is not automatic
but requires only a few mouse clicks.
http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas
--
Gary VanderMolen [MS MVP-WLM]


"Boomer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:rcudnb4Iw-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> Since my Vista mail is corrupted & I don't expect Microsoft to fix it
> anytime soon do you think Thunderbird mail will work? I hate to install it
> to find the same result as with Windows mail.

Gary, I installed Windows Live Mail and had the same results as Windows
mail- I can receive but not send. Since I don't really care about my saved
mail on my desktop I'll give it a shot but I'll try & install Widows Live
one more time to see what happens. I just want to be able to receive & send
mail when I'm traveling. That's not asking to much.

"Gary VanderMolen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ORBD$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thunderbird will work. The only problem is that you'll have difficulty
> importing anything from Windows Mail, such as account info, settings,
> folder structure, saved emails, etc.
>
> You may want to try out Windows Live Mail first, since it will import
> almost everything automatically. Importing contacts is not automatic but
> requires only a few mouse clicks.
> http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas
> --
> Gary VanderMolen [MS MVP-WLM]
>
>
> "Boomer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:rcudnb4Iw-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> Since my Vista mail is corrupted & I don't expect Microsoft to fix it
>> anytime soon do you think Thunderbird mail will work? I hate to install
>> it to find the same result as with Windows mail.

Frank
If it has worked properly for you since December, how come so many people
have been complaining about it and getting constant errors ? I get errors
EVERY day. Are you using an updated version not available to the public ?

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

> "ajforest" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:9DFCDC12-AE8E-48AC-A0F9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I am getting fed up with this awful software Windows mail. I get errors
> >with
> > it every day. Somtimes I can't delete mail, other times I can't move mail
> > to
> > other folders. Sometimes a folder cannot be displayed at all. Every time
> > to
> > get rid of these I have to reboot. Surely Microsoft must be working on
> > sorting out these problems. One only has to look at this forum to see the
> > huge number of problems users are having. How much longer do we have to
> > wait ?
> >
> > I wish I had never gone to Vista and Windows Mail. It is so so slow.
> > Loading
> > some files on my new Dell laptop with 1gb memory, 120 gb disk & dual core
> > processor took 4 minutes as against 20 seconds on my wife's less powerful
> > and
> > much older laptop running XP.
> >
> > I am seriously thinking of abandoning Vista and going back to XP.
>
> It has worked properly here since December.
>
> --
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE, OE/WM
> I won't answer email.
>
>