Windows Mail

Does anyone have a fix that will make Windows Mail the default mail
program in Win7? Not interested in Windows Live Mail. Thanks,
Walt

There is no Windows Mail in Windows 7. Microsoft has stopped
bundling any mail clients in Windows 7. You can only have Windows
Live Mail if you want to remain with Microsoft Products or look
for Thunderbird - another contender for top price.

Please note that companies have stopped developing free email
clients - Even Thunderbird will not develop any new features. You
will need to get used to Microsoft Outlook but that won't solve
your newsgroups problems.

What features are you looking for in a mail client?

Walt wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a fix that will make Windows Mail the default mail
> program in Win7? Not interested in Windows Live Mail. Thanks,
> Walt

Dave Willcox wrote:

> Please note that companies have stopped developing free email
> clients - Even Thunderbird will not develop any new features.

Some might say that's a good thing, they'll still fix bugs, still
release new versions every 6 weeks, and they'll stop adding fancy bells
and whistles that people go out of their way to disable ...

On 24/07/12 22:16, Walt wrote:
> Does anyone have a fix that will make Windows Mail the default mail
> program in Win7? Not interested in Windows Live Mail. Thanks,
> Walt
>

There is a work around but it involves copying files from a Vista
installation AFAIK.
Google is your friend...

On 24 Jul 2012, Gordon <> wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> There is a work around but it involves copying files from a Vista
> installation AFAIK.
> Google is your friend...

I know you can finagle things so as to get Windows Mail running on
Windows 7, but I don't think there's a way to make it the system
default mail client.

"Walt" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Does anyone have a fix that will make Windows Mail the default mail
> program in Win7? Not interested in Windows Live Mail. Thanks,
> Walt



I have it in my Win7, but have not found a way to make it default.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010
Imperial Beach, CA

On 24/07/2012 10:49 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Dave Willcox wrote:
>
>> Please note that companies have stopped developing free email
>> clients - Even Thunderbird will not develop any new features.
>
> Some might say that's a good thing, they'll still fix bugs, still
> release new versions every 6 weeks, and they'll stop adding fancy bells
> and whistles that people go out of their way to disable ...
>

Hear, hear! The current versions is stable, and were it to have nothing
but security fixes from now on, that would be a major advantage.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK


I went for a medical and asked the doctor, "How do I stand?" He said,
"That's what puzzles me too!"

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:57:26 -0700, Bruce Hagen wrote:

> I have it in my Win7, but have not found a way to make it default.

Setting in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:26:53 +0100, Dave Willcox wrote:

> Please note that companies have stopped developing free email
> clients - Even Thunderbird will not develop any new features.

IMHO it doesn't need any new features and it will still be supported.

--
s|b

On 24 Jul 2012, Dave Willcox <> wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> Please note that companies have stopped developing free email
> clients - Even Thunderbird will not develop any new features.

Where did you hear that?

> You will need to get used to Microsoft Outlook but that won't
> solve your newsgroups problems.

He never mentioned Outlook, so why do you?