Win 7 windows mail

When I copied the file to my wndows 7 laptop. I opened it up to find "winMail. So I had to shut it down and restart the laptow to work right.

What next? The other to things you say to do seem over my head. Thank you Ed. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. The buggy Vista had not have long life and finally gave way to Windows 7. I have often been configuring my customers' computers with freshly obtained Win7, designed to replace the old ones running XP and below, and been transferring an information including OE accounts, messages and addresses.

Most of these customers are unadvanced users otherwise they would manage this task themselves and want to have mailer they were accustomed to over the years of using. Hereby a method of forcible enabling of WinMail in Win7 described in this article might come in handy.

The folder WinMail is present in Windows 7, but the program's user interface msoe. It's required to unlock msoe. First of all you should determine whether you have bit or bit version of the system.

When in doubt - click: How to determine whether my PC is running Windows 7 of 32 bit or 64 bit. Screenshots are clickable. If you've already tried to run WinMail, it can stay in the processes and thus be locked. Before performing the procedure, remove it from the process list if you know how, but if you don't - you'd better restart your computer. Now download and unzip: EnableWinMailWin7. So you can start the process:.

It is very important to do it before you perform steps 3 and 4! Run the command file unhide. This will remove the attribute "hidden" off the file WinMail. Select Take Ownership in the pop-up menu. Windows Mail is now installed. To install Windows Calendar unzip and extract the files to Programs on C drive and make a new folder.

Go to programs and you should see a file named New Folder. Now rename New Folder Windows Calendar. Now open the Windows Calendar folder and look for the file named Wincal. Send this shortcut to your desktop. Windows Calendar is now installed. And there are also additional registry files you can download to both disable or enable the splash screen on Windows Mail, and to set it as the default email program. You could use Microsoft Office Outlook. It contains both Calendar and Mail.

Yes No. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 2. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. And you can set Windows Mail as the default program. And Windows Mail is now part of Windows 7. If you upload both the Windows Mail and Windows Calendar zip installer files onto an online file sharing and storage site like Mediafire.

You will always have the files stored online and can download the zip files onto any Windows 7 computer. Even if you do not have a Windows Vista computer.

And you will also be given a web link to share with your friends and other people. So that they can install the programs onto their computer.

Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. Or Windows Mail will not work. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 1. Windows Mail works on Windows 7 and so does Windows Calendar, if you follow the above instructions.

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