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 | | Subject: Install Windows Mail in Windows 7 Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:32 pm | |
| There are instructions on this page for installing a copy of Windows Mail from a Vista PC in a PC running Windows 7, although there might be problems setting it as the "default" if there are other email programs installed in 7, such as MS Outlook.
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Zante
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| | Subject: Re: Install Windows Mail in Windows 7 Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:17 am | |
| That's interesting Mike, but why would you need it when you can get Thunderbird? But then I am biased toward Firefox and Thunderbird! Cheers, Zante. |
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| | Subject: Re: Install Windows Mail in Windows 7 Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:33 am | |
| Some people experienced problems with Windows Mail in Vista, so the preferred email client was Windows Live Mail.
I believe that Live Mail works fine in W7, so perhaps is the better choice. (Apart from lovers of Thunderbird, of course.) _________________  A day without sunshine is like, well, night.  |
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| | Subject: Re: Install Windows Mail in Windows 7 Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:42 am | |
| | Zante wrote: | | why would you need it when you can get Thunderbird? |
Some users who are familiar with Windows Mail in Vista might want to continue to use it after upgrading to Windows 7, which doesn't have an email program installed. A better option is actually Windows Live Mail.
My criticism of Thunderbird, and the reason I stopped using it, is the inability to specify the font size. Yes, you can make it smaller or larger, but you cannot specify, for example, a 12-point size. I found the resulting sizes to be unpredictable.
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| | Subject: Re: Install Windows Mail in Windows 7 Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:51 pm | |
| inability to specify the font size
Oh I hadn't even realised that - I ony use it for quick messages and never do anything fancy with emails - so long as it ptints and goes is all I care about. Cheers, Zante |
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| | Subject: Re: Install Windows Mail in Windows 7 Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:57 pm | |
| | accordion wrote: | | Some people experienced problems with Windows Mail in Vista, so the preferred email client was Windows Live Mail. |
Just to say many many thanks for this thread, after spending the last day and a half trying to get Windows Live Mail working any where near properly, after following the advice from the link at the top of this thread I finally got a email client working "Windows Mail" which I quite like any way.
I did try Outlook, but could not get that to work any where near properly so that was a none starter also.
As for Windows Live Mail, why on earth Microsoft designed it so each email account had to be configured individually is beyond me.
(But my main problem was that neither the address book or sending mail would work because of a missing wab.dll)
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Just to add to the question being asked on the other site which was how to remove "Windows Live Mail" from the system.
"Go to "Uninstall or change a program" then find the file called "Windows Live Essentials" once selected you will notice on the header bar above is a icon for "CHANGE" once this is selected you will then be presented with a list of Windows Live tools that can be changed or removed/deleted, from hear you can chose remove/delete.
..... Remember...... READ TWICE & click once ..... |
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