Icon for Windows Mail

[Robert Miles]

How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
for Outlook Express is getting old.

 

[Peter]

What? You can't have Windows Mail and Outlook Express on the same
OS....are you talking Vista or XP? Are you talking Windows Live Mail or
Windows Mail?
Start/All Programs.......right-click Windows Mail and "send to" - desktop
(create shortcut).

 

[dean-dean]

In Start Menu > All Programs, right-click on Windows Mail and choose Copy.
Then right-click an empty spot on your Desktop and choose Paste. Or
right-click on Windows Mail and choose Pin to Start Menu. Or right-click on
Windows Mail and choose Add to Quick Launch, witch will put an icon in your
Taskbar's Quick Launch Toolbar.

Or, right-click the Start button, and choose Properties. Click on
Customize. Put a check next to E-mail link, under the section "Show on
Start Menu", at the bottom of the Customize Start Menu window.

 

[Robert Miles]

What? You can't have Windows Mail and Outlook Express on the same
OS....are you talking Vista or XP? Are you talking Windows Live Mail or
Windows Mail?
Start/All Programs.......right-click Windows Mail and "send to" - desktop
(create shortcut).

Windows Mail under Vista. Why would I ask about an XP problem on
a Vista newsgroup?

I don't see a way to get to Start/All Programs either.

 

[Robert Miles]

In Start Menu > All Programs, right-click on Windows Mail and choose Copy.
Then right-click an empty spot on your Desktop and choose Paste. Or
right-click on Windows Mail and choose Pin to Start Menu. Or right-click
on
Windows Mail and choose Add to Quick Launch, witch will put an icon in
your
Taskbar's Quick Launch Toolbar.

Or, right-click the Start button, and choose Properties. Click on
Customize. Put a check next to E-mail link, under the section "Show on
Start Menu", at the bottom of the Customize Start Menu window.

I don't see the Start Menu or the Start button. When I right-click on
Windows Mail, the list I get does not include offer Pin to Start Menu
or Add to Quick Launch.

 

[dean-dean]

Your Taskbar is the bar that runs across the bottom of your screen. On the
far right is a blue orb-shaped "button" with a Windows flag on it. Click on
that Orb, and that will reveal the Start Menu. At the bottom of the Start
Menu is "All Programs". Click on that. Doing that changes the Start Menu,
whereupon you will see shortcuts and folders. Right-click on the Window
Mail shortcut to Copy, Send To, etc...

 

[Chad Harris]

Robert--

I should have added if you aren't just trying to have a shortcut to open
whatever mail program it is you mean on whatever OS you have, (dragging it
from the Start menu by holding down the rt. click and copying as has been
said) but you want the icon as a folder, then just right click the
desktop>new>folder>customize>browse and that's what I meant about going to

C:\Program Files\Win Mail (in Vista) and getting Icons from those folders
and .dlls or

C:\Program Files\Outlook Express (in XP) and doing the same thing.

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

Where are you clicking on Windows Mail precisely, and what are you clicking
on? I'm even more bad worser confused now.

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

Well Robert, I see one way here--but the fundamental question in all this is
what is Robert Miles' objective--tell us (you have not yet in 3 posts) what
you want to get done and we can do it.

This is normally the way I think of using the start menu to go to all
programs, but much of the time I use shortcuts in an IE address bar that
doubles as a run box planted in the task bar. You don't see this?

http://www.powerdonkey.net/images/win_vista/start_menu_2.jpg

As in the context of this?

http://tinyurl.com/2lscb4

Again what are you trying to get done, Robert?

CH

 

[JethroUK]

On the far right is a blue orb-shaped "button" with a Windows flag on it.

That would be he far 'left' actually - just to be clear )

 

[dean-dean]

Your Taskbar is the bar that runs across the bottom of your screen. On

the far right is a blue orb-shaped "button" with a Windows flag on it.
Click on that Orb, and that will reveal the Start Menu.

Yes, that would be an Ooops! It should be "On the far LEFT-hand side of the
Taskbar is a blue orb-shaped button with a Windows flag on it. Click on
that Orb (when you hover your mouse over it, the tooltip says "Start"), and
that will reveal the the Start Menu...

In the long run, using the Start Menu, or creating a Desktop shortcut, would
be easier than searching Help and Support for Outlook Express (which also
works, by the way)...

 

[Robert Miles]

At the far right of mine is the time, with an icon for the speaker volume
next
to it.

 

[Robert Miles]

That would be he far 'left' actually - just to be clear )

I found it at the far left, but Shut Down is at the bottom of mine, with Run
just above it. Run and then Windows Mail doesn't work - it searches for
Windows instead of Windows Mail.

 

[Robert Miles]

It would be easier if it worked. My Start Menu doesn't have Windows
Mail on it.

 

[Robert Miles]

Well Robert, I see one way here--but the fundamental question in all this
is what is Robert Miles' objective--tell us (you have not yet in 3 posts)
what you want to get done and we can do it.

This is normally the way I think of using the start menu to go to all
programs, but much of the time I use shortcuts in an IE address bar that
doubles as a run box planted in the task bar. You don't see this?

http://www.powerdonkey.net/images/win_vista/start_menu_2.jpg

No, I see the Classic Start Menu. My previous operating system was
Windows 98SE and that one looks closer. I don't think I've ever used XP.

As in the context of this?

http://tinyurl.com/2lscb4
No.

Again what are you trying to get done, Robert?

I'm trying to find a faster way to start Windows Mail, preferably a
shortcut on the home screen.

 

[Robert Miles]

I'm clicking on its top bar after I start it. Right-clicking on it in Help
and Support
doesn't bring up anything that helps, and I haven't found anyplace else to
click
on it.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I'm clicking on its top bar after I start it. Right-clicking on it in
Help and Support
doesn't bring up anything that helps, and I haven't found anyplace else to
click
on it.

Open Windows Explorer.
Navigate to C:\Program Files\Windows Mail.
Right click WinMail.exe and you should see Pin to Start Menu and Add to
Quick Launch.
Or you can hold down the right mouse button, drag it to the desktop and
choose Create Shortcut here.

 

[Robert Miles]

Open Windows Explorer.
Navigate to C:\Program Files\Windows Mail.
Right click WinMail.exe and you should see Pin to Start Menu and Add to
Quick Launch.
Or you can hold down the right mouse button, drag it to the desktop and
choose Create Shortcut here.

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Do not send mail.

I couldn't find Windows Explorer, but when I found the WinMail.exe file
under Computer, I was able to create the shortcut. Thanks.