Four Specific Questions (or Complaints?)

[bilglas]

I have not found solutions or answers to any of these four issues, anywhere
in this newsgroup, nor through Google ... would relish anyone else's
thoughts or suggestions:

(1) I have Window Mail set to its default layout ... with the Folder List
down the left side, the Messages pane on top-right, with the Preview Pane
below. When I was still using Outlook Express on XP, I could have any folder
in my Folder List highlighted, and I could use my UP and DOWN keys to scroll
vertically through that list. Can't do that in Vista's new-improved Windows
Mail. You select any folder in your Folder List, and the "focus" ... the
place where your cursor rests ... the place that will be affected by your
next keyboard decision ... is SHIFTED (against my will!) to the first e-mail
in the Message panel. Therefore, no way to vertically scroll through the
folders in your Folder List. This COULD be because I've got something set
wrong; if so, I'd be grateful for some help. Or it COULD be a characteristic
of Aero .... perhaps if I'd set my Windows Appearance to "Classic" format,
this problem would go away. But still....

(2) I have folders and subfolders that I almost NEVER use; they are there
for storage ... letters from former customers, e-mails to friends I haven't
heard from recently. Yet whenever I open Windows Mail, any number of these
UNTOUCHED folders appears EXPANDED in the Folder List, rather than
COLLAPSED, as it should be. I can easily collapse them, manually (I love the
new Aero arrows, as opposed to XP's old boxes with plus-signs) ... but the
next time I get back into Windows Mail, they're expanded again. This does
NOT, however, happen with ALL folders; if it was expanding EVERYTHING, I'd
think it was some setting I need to change. It expands SOME folders, but not
all. And no, there are NOT any unread messages in the folders that expand
.... that would explain it, but that's not it. Any other ideas??

(3) I'm blessed with a great new widescreen monitor, which is at 1920×1200
resolution. When I want to change the relative height of the Message and
Preview panes in Windows Mail, my cursor has to grab the horizontal bar that
separates them, and that bar is only ONE freakin' pixel big! I've gotta have
surgical precision to get poised at the EXACT point at which I can click and
drag that bar. I believe TweakXP solved this issue, but I'm not using XP
anymore. Anybody know a registry hack that would change this? (Or am I the
only one having this problem?)

(4) If this is something I should be able to change, I can't find the
switch, and would be grateful for anyone's help. In the meantime, I hate the
way e-mail addresses appear, now, in the To, From, CC and BCC slots at the
top of each e-mail. Lots of people have complained about the funky way
Windows Mail now handles Auto-Complete when you type names from your Contact
List. But besides that, I hate that it now shows both the recipients' names
AND their e-mail addresses in <angle-brackets> ... I don't NEED this ... I
don't WANT this ... OE7 handled this MUCH better. And if I'm adding multiple
names on the same line, going from one name to the next with a semi-colon
results in a DOUBLE semi-colon ... there's just no CLEAN way to enter names,
as there was with OE.

Okay...... I guess that's enough for one post, eh? Grateful for anyone's
feedback...

Bill

 

[mikeyhsd]

will attempt to answer, may not be all that happy with them.

1. problem with FOCUS was discovered during beta, ms decided it was not important enough to fix.
easy solution. ALT+TAB to bring WM back to focus then TAB again to set the focus. or click on the first message header.
hopefully will be fixed in SP1.

2.irritating isn't it. what I found is to mark all the messages as read.

3.using setting other than standard DPI setting can cause this problem. also found in beta and not fixed.,

4.try turn off auto complete of addresses. see if it is better.



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I have not found solutions or answers to any of these four issues, anywhere
in this newsgroup, nor through Google ... would relish anyone else's
thoughts or suggestions:

(1) I have Window Mail set to its default layout ... with the Folder List
down the left side, the Messages pane on top-right, with the Preview Pane
below. When I was still using Outlook Express on XP, I could have any folder
in my Folder List highlighted, and I could use my UP and DOWN keys to scroll
vertically through that list. Can't do that in Vista's new-improved Windows
Mail. You select any folder in your Folder List, and the "focus" ... the
place where your cursor rests ... the place that will be affected by your
next keyboard decision ... is SHIFTED (against my will!) to the first e-mail
in the Message panel. Therefore, no way to vertically scroll through the
folders in your Folder List. This COULD be because I've got something set
wrong; if so, I'd be grateful for some help. Or it COULD be a characteristic
of Aero .... perhaps if I'd set my Windows Appearance to "Classic" format,
this problem would go away. But still....

(2) I have folders and subfolders that I almost NEVER use; they are there
for storage ... letters from former customers, e-mails to friends I haven't
heard from recently. Yet whenever I open Windows Mail, any number of these
UNTOUCHED folders appears EXPANDED in the Folder List, rather than
COLLAPSED, as it should be. I can easily collapse them, manually (I love the
new Aero arrows, as opposed to XP's old boxes with plus-signs) ... but the
next time I get back into Windows Mail, they're expanded again. This does
NOT, however, happen with ALL folders; if it was expanding EVERYTHING, I'd
think it was some setting I need to change. It expands SOME folders, but not
all. And no, there are NOT any unread messages in the folders that expand
... that would explain it, but that's not it. Any other ideas??

(3) I'm blessed with a great new widescreen monitor, which is at 1920×1200
resolution. When I want to change the relative height of the Message and
Preview panes in Windows Mail, my cursor has to grab the horizontal bar that
separates them, and that bar is only ONE freakin' pixel big! I've gotta have
surgical precision to get poised at the EXACT point at which I can click and
drag that bar. I believe TweakXP solved this issue, but I'm not using XP
anymore. Anybody know a registry hack that would change this? (Or am I the
only one having this problem?)

(4) If this is something I should be able to change, I can't find the
switch, and would be grateful for anyone's help. In the meantime, I hate the
way e-mail addresses appear, now, in the To, From, CC and BCC slots at the
top of each e-mail. Lots of people have complained about the funky way
Windows Mail now handles Auto-Complete when you type names from your Contact
List. But besides that, I hate that it now shows both the recipients' names
AND their e-mail addresses in <angle-brackets> ... I don't NEED this .... I
don't WANT this ... OE7 handled this MUCH better. And if I'm adding multiple
names on the same line, going from one name to the next with a semi-colon
results in a DOUBLE semi-colon ... there's just no CLEAN way to enter names,
as there was with OE.

Okay...... I guess that's enough for one post, eh? Grateful for anyone's
feedback...

Bill

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

1. A Windows Mail "as designed" feature. MS did not want to listen to the beta
testers who complained about it.

2. Make sure you have no unread mail in those folders.

3. You should have seen it when WinMail was first released to beta testers.
The pane divider lines were all but invisible, off-white on white. We finally
got MS to darken those lines somewhat.

4. Actually I like it that both names and email addresses are displayed.
I have multiple email addresses for some contacts, and this allows me
to verify that the right one was picked.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Dennis]

For (2):
Tools -> Options -> General tab
Uncheck "Automatically display folders with unread messages"