Need to at least "disable" Windows Mail

[Chris]

As an enterprise customer (using Windows Vista Enterprise), we've already
selected -- as most large corportate customers would -- an email system and
client. As such, I really don't understand why, just like with Outlook
Express (until XPSP2), you can't remove this product.

As a corporate customer, clearly we don't want our Vista users to be at all
confused between mail clients and would very much like to see at least some
sort of GPO that could "disable" the Windows Mail client so avoid any
confusion by our less capable users.

Any help/suggestions would be most graciously appreciated... and, no, I
haven't combed through the incredible complexity of available GPOs for Vista
yet -- hoping that if there is some sort of capability like that I've
outlined above, that an expert at MS can direct me to it so that I don't have
to submerse myself in the myriad of detail.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

As an enterprise customer (using Windows Vista Enterprise), we've already
selected -- as most large corportate customers would -- an email system
and
client. As such, I really don't understand why, just like with Outlook
Express (until XPSP2), you can't remove this product.

As a corporate customer, clearly we don't want our Vista users to be at
all
confused between mail clients and would very much like to see at least
some
sort of GPO that could "disable" the Windows Mail client so avoid any
confusion by our less capable users.

Any help/suggestions would be most graciously appreciated... and, no, I
haven't combed through the incredible complexity of available GPOs for
Vista
yet -- hoping that if there is some sort of capability like that I've
outlined above, that an expert at MS can direct me to it so that I don't
have
to submerse myself in the myriad of detail.

Thanks in advance.

Windows Mail is a part of Vista and very hard to remove without also
removing the rest of Vista. However, you can keep it from being able
to do much by removing all the accounts under it. You can also delete
all the shortcuts that make it easy to start.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

As for disabling parts of Vista, that is not within the scope of this forum.
You might try asking in the general Vista newsgroup.

 

[Guest]

I share your pain. I, too, use a very reliable and different email
interface and do NOT want Windows Mail active on my machines. Those
morons at MicroSoft keep bundling their APPLICATIONS into their
OPERATING SYSTEMS, and I don't like it at all!

If you ever find out how to REMOVE Windows Mail client, please share it
with us all!

Thanks very much,
Ed in Columbus, OH

Windows Mail is a part of Vista and very hard to remove without
also removing the rest of Vista. You can, however, remove all
the accounts under it to keep it from doing much if you start it.
You can also delete all the shortcuts that make it easy to start.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Windows Mail is not "active" if you don't run it.
Why the obsession with removing it?