Windows Mail in Win7

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Correct me if I am wrong.
From what I understand, WIN7 does not support Windows mail, only Windows
Live Mail.
However, I also remembered some ones, including one of the MVPs, managed
to "tweek" WIN7 into accepting WM.
t-4-2

 

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I can not say for the said "gadget" but it's possible to assign WinMail
as the default mail client using a Registry hack. Pls see
http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...issing-from-the-default-programs-listing.html


It has been reported by the German MVP Helmut Rohrbeck that WinMail
(imported from Vista) and even OE-Quotefix run fine under the Win7 RTM.

Rainald

 

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I can not say for the said "gadget" but it's possible to assign WinMail
as the default mail client using a Registry hack. Pls see
http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...issing-from-the-default-programs-listing.html


It has been reported by the German MVP Helmut Rohrbeck that WinMail
(imported from Vista) and even OE-Quotefix run fine under the Win7 RTM.

Rainald

 

[marie_thérèse poupin]

No, I could not verify that as at present I do not yet work with this
version (difficulties with getting the RTM version through my university
channels).

I had just reported what I had read.


So am I.
AFAICS there will hardly be any updates/patches if one takes this route.


Nor am I.
But for me it's just the way to go until I find a better instrument
{siiigh}

WLM definitely will not be my news- and mail-client, come what may.
I tested it and ranked it with the category "hardly usable".
It's not usable for *working* in NGs at all.
And its UI is just awful.

Could be that I might make the move to Thunderbird. Forté Agent and
40tude are just too strange with their UIs and do not fit at all into
the look and feel of Win7.

Pls do not misunderstand me. I do not at all want to make propaganda for
using WinMail under Win7.
But I think that it's necessary to comment on the possibilities
remaining when the topic comes up.

Rainald

 

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Gary VanderMolen wrote:
It's not a big deal for me since I only use Windows Mail for
newsgroups.
[Running Windows 7 RTM]

Interesting. It seems that Live Mail really is suffering seriously
if it comes to NGs (AFAICS all of the mistakes from OE have been
taken over and in the German NGs a bang on the head would be
the regular result when having posted with WLM unedited).

Just curious: What are you using for mail?

Windows Live Mail.
To be sure, it isn't ideal, but it had enough positives over WM to
win me over.

Interesting. Thanks for the info.
I for one just want to have mail and news together in one program.

Thanks again
Rainald

 

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Well, you can always install XP as a virtual machine and use OE that way.

BTW, after looking at things a bit, the changes in the registry updating
from Vista to Win7 are massive and the little attempt at restoration with
the reference you gave doesn't begin to fix those changes. WinMail and
all about it have been sucked out of the registry, so that I am surprised
the hack works at all.

steve

 

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I think Steve understands; he probably did not intend to be taken
seriously.

 

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"Gary VanderMolen" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
Are you talking about the virtual XP mode in Win7?
The thing is, there are serious limitations to doing that.
Only the Professional and Ultimate versions of Win7 support it,
so the average Home Premium user will be out of luck.
Also, the processor most support virtualization; many don't,
including the pretty decent Intel Core 2 Duo CPU in my laptop.

 

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Yes, there have been quite some postings in this feature.
But I for one - honestly speaking - never missed that. I hardly ever had
the "address"-pane switched on. Just too many "contacts" for this
feature to be usable for me.

What I really miss, however, is the possibility to use the Outlook data
instead of the WAB/Windows Contacts. But this feature of IE has been
killed by Outlook 2007 anyway so that it's no longer available in OE too
{siiiigh}.
I'm still after a piece of software fir synching the Outlook Contacts
with the Windows Contacts. My addresses being out of synch is an
obstacle which bothers me by the day and the hour {siiigh}.
If any if the alternative mail- and news-clients would offer synching
with Outlook Contacts I would most certainly let WinMail be a thing of
the past for me.

Apart from this major thing I would yet have to come across anything
being "better" in OE than in WinMail.

Rainald

 

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