Customize Toolbar

[JamesJ]

Windows Mail doesn't honor the toolbar buttons I add or remove
in Customize Toolbar. The Toolbar returns with the default buttons
after I restart Windows Mail.
I have found that Internet Explorer is fine in this respect.

Any Ideas?
James

 

[Julian]

Hi James,

Not sure, but are you clicking CLOSE and not RESET when done in the
Customize window. I know "duh", just an idea though.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

From what I've seen on this forum I think
that is a perfectly reasonable suggestion.

 

[JamesJ]

I'm clicking Close and I double-checked, anyway. Thr buttons
I want displayed are there when I close the Customize Toolbar
dialog. It's not until I close and re-open Mail that the buttons return
to the defaults.

James

 

[JamesJ]

Explain.

From what I've seen on this forum I think
that is a perfectly reasonable suggestion.

 

[Julian]

Explain.
No.

 

[R. C. White, MVP]

Hi, James.

When I first started using WM, it took me a while to realize that Mail and
News each have their own separate Toolbar settings. What works in one,
won't work in the other sometimes. Some folders also allow specific
customizations. For example, the Not Junk button appears only when I'm
looking in the Junk E-mail folder; when I switch to the Inbox, it
disappears.

The same is true with some column arrangements. I see columns here in
Microsoft Communities (also known as Microsoft Public Newsgroups) that
aren't available for my ISP's news server's newsgroups.

From your description, I'm not sure this is your situation, but you might
want to check.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail desktop beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[JamesJ]

I've been attemptiing to change the toolbar for my Inbox folder
only.

James

 

[JamesJ]

Thanks much,
James

Hi James,

That would explain it then. This is part of the Vista forgetful memory
file & folders view. You make the changes and they're there until you
close the window and poof Vista defaults back to default view. There is
currently no known fix yet for this. However, Microsoft is suppose to
be releasing a new replacement for Windows Mail very soon. Hopefully it
will be better and will remember your settings you want.

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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[JamesJ]

yes

 

[Julian]

yes

Tough luck son.

 

[JamesJ]

Be that way.

Tough luck son.

 

[Julian]

Be that way.

Yes, dear.

 

[R. C. White, MVP]

Hi, James.

Another possibility is that WM encountered some kind of error and exited
abnormally. It apparently doesn't change some (all?) of the settings we've
made until we shut it down with the X in the red box or click File | Exit.
If it aborts because of an error, those changes never get saved and we have
to start over next time. And that might happen even if the abort is hours
after we've changed the settings. To be sure, make your changes, then exit,
even if you are not finished, and then restart WM and see if the changes
"stuck".

That happened to me often in the first weeks of using WM, but it hasn't
happened in a long time now. Sometimes there were hangs that I couldn't
cure except with Task Manager's End Now buttons, and I had to redo my most
recent settings after that kind of exit from WM.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[JamesJ]

No matter how I exit WM the toolbar always reverts back.
It remains fine for the session, though.

James

Hi, James.

Another possibility is that WM encountered some kind of error and exited
abnormally. It apparently doesn't change some (all?) of the settings
we've made until we shut it down with the X in the red box or click File |
Exit. If it aborts because of an error, those changes never get saved and
we have to start over next time. And that might happen even if the abort
is hours after we've changed the settings. To be sure, make your changes,
then exit, even if you are not finished, and then restart WM and see if
the changes "stuck".

That happened to me often in the first weeks of using WM, but it hasn't
happened in a long time now. Sometimes there were hangs that I couldn't
cure except with Task Manager's End Now buttons, and I had to redo my most
recent settings after that kind of exit from WM.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)