Windows Mail

That Windows Mail looks very uggly. No separators between panes. Is there
any way to change the look? Skins or something?

Thank You.

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"Jouni Kolehmainen" wrote:

> That Windows Mail looks very uggly. No separators between panes. Is there
> any way to change the look? Skins or something?
>
> Thank You.
>
>

My Windows Mail wasn't set at "read in plain text" by default. I'm sort of
disappointed about that. In my opinion, little worth that it is, why not
encourage plain text email? It takes less bandwidth, concentrates on the
message, is safer and on and on. HTML email should have been destroyed at
birth anyway. Simply making it not the default could go a long long way to
killing it off forever.

Hi, is it me or Windows Mail doesn't support Hotmail?
With OE6 I can still access my old hotmail account

thanks

In article <32280B68-561C-4C1E-8777-57124F170BF9@microsoft.com>, jvi
says...

> Hi, is it me or Windows Mail doesn't support Hotmail?

Correct. You can set up Hotmail to forward your messages or use an
application such as HotPOP3 which allows pop3 access to Hotmail.


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Same Shit, Different Day.

Every time I close Windows Mail, I get a "No Disk in Drive" error box.
Is there a way to correct this?

1) You can try a restore point to before this behavior started.

2) You can try running SFC--"system file checker" part of the Windows File
Protection system, which would normally be one of my first moves to correct
a banged up .dll or file-scanning the signatures of broken ones and
replacing them with intact ones. But before you do make sure you have a
restore point and use the Backup feature in Vista to back up or the image
feature to make an image. The reason I say this is that MSFT has not fixed
SFC and sometimes it wipes out the registry. They have also been very quiet
about the fact that they haven't fixed SFC to date in any build as well,
preferring to trumpet other things that fit the description, Clear,
Confident, Connected in the Redmond penchant for alliterative concentrated
"C" cascades.

You can run "sfc /scannow" in the run box. Lose quotes. This has been
bugged to MSFT for months but they haven't or won't fix it. The last MSFT
statement I saw on SFC from the Product Manager of Win RE was to run it as
"sfc /verifyonly"--but whoopsie the problem with that is that it's worthless
as a fixer when you do that. It ID's files that need fixin' but it don't
never fix them. Not um good enough MSFT. Not very clear, confident and
connected
http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com.../ms734602.aspx

The MSDN article asks at bottom--How would you rate the usefulness of this
content? Nor very useful since you don't admit SFC doesn't work most of the
time in Vista and can mangle the registry into a no boot situation. The
article ought to be updated to "it no workee" status and then updated when
and if it's fixed.

3) Export the registry key and save it to desktop and try (if you have this
root value--some don't):

In regedit, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail
and remove "\WindowsMail.MSMessageStore" from the Store Root Value, so it
looks something like:

S:\Data\WindowsMail

These two will probably be most effective if SR or SFC don't work:


4) The default path for the message store is
C:\Users\{user account}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail

Try moving (not deleting) all files out of that folder and then start
Windows Mail. It should create a new empty store folder.


5) Simply create a new profile and Win Mail will probably work in that.
Fast user switching to it is an option but not a convenient one, however
after you do it, go back to your original profile, close out all apps and
browswer windows, reboot and see if it now works.


Good luck,

CH









"DCC" <doug@collina.net> wrote in message
news:587812EE-6C27-41F5-BFFE-E35FFF405C3E@microsoft.com...

> Every time I close Windows Mail, I get a "No Disk in Drive" error box.
> Is there a way to correct this?

Menu item "About" in Windows Mail says "Version 6.0.5744.16384
(Vista_rtm_edw.061003-1945)". What exactly does this mean? Is this the
version that goes to manufacturing? Or final? Thanks.