Re: Using Windows Mail In Windows 7
- From: "Faith Elizabeth Cummings" <faith.cummings@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:00:10 -0400
Gary, where did you get windows mail for windows 7? I have home premium too,
and am using jaws 12. But I got windows live mail and don’t really like it. I
used windows mail with vista though, and liked it a lot. Thanks. Faith
From: Gary King
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:09 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Using Windows Mail In Windows 7
I finally got Windows Mail going in Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. It does
work well with JFW 12 and is quite similar to Outlook Express. It does have a
few quirks that I don't like though. Moving through the list of folders is a
little tricky since the focus changes rather quickly to the list of messages in
each folder as you focus on it. I have found that Control+U doesn't always
work reliably to go to unread messages. To work around this, I hide read
messages in the Current View and press Home in the message list to go to the
first unread message.
Instead of an Address Book like in Outlook Express, Windows Mail uses Windows
Contacts, which gave me a little trouble at first. I finally got my imported
Outlook Express contacts working with Windows Mail, but I liked the old
Outlook Express Address Book better.
What I really do like about Windows Mail is that it allows me to read email in
the same way I did with Outlook Express, starting with the first unread message
in a folder and, and reading each succeeding message in turn, keeping or
deleting as I go without ever going back to the message list. Since messages
from each email list are filtered into a designated folder, it makes going
through a large amount of email pretty fast. It was reported that message
filtering doesn't work in Windows Mail on a 64-bit system, but this is not
true. It's just that JFW doesn't speak the checked and unchecked status of the
options in the Rules Creation dialog. Since all options are unchecked when you
begin creating a rule, pressing Spacebar will check them. Where the
instructions say to click the underlined value, you can select the option and
press Enter instead.
In summary, getting Windows Mail working in Windows 7 was well worth the
trouble for me. It does require care in following the instructions in Ryan's
Windows Mail Tutorial, creating a Restore Point and backing up the Registry to
be safe, but if you really like Outlook Express and don't like the email
alternatives for Windows 7, it might be worth it to you also.
Gary King
w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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