Install Windows Mail on Windows 7

I had a Windows Vista computer and used Windows Mail for checking emails. I bought a new computer for my home-office but I don’t find the email program on it. Can I install Windows Mail on Windows 7? If so from where can I download it?
James Hall

Windows Mail which replaced the popular Outlook Express was the default email program on Windows Vista operating system. However, Microsoft stopped development and support and launched a newer email client – Windows Live Mail; note the similar names. Windows Mail was quite like Outlook Express – email organization and interface were comparable. However, Windows Live Mail is markedly different from its predecessors.
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No email program for new computer

Just bought a desktop yesterday and it has no email program. I am still on a dial-up internet connection and dreading the download time. Would be grateful if you can advise me.
Ellie

I am doubtful of Ellie’s complaint. All Windows based computers come with a default email client, whether it was Outlook Express on Windows XP (and before), Windows Mail on Vista or Windows Live Mail on Windows 7. There is bound to be an in-built email program on Ellie’s new computer too; however, she would find herself quite at sea because of the changes to nomenclature by Microsoft – and that is why I am there to help.
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Email on Windows 7 laptop

I am sure you already know, Outlook Express is not on Windows 7. In fact, it was ‘missing’ from Vista too – replaced with Windows Mail.
So can you use email on the Windows 7 laptop?
Yes, there is an alternative to the popular Outlook Express – Microsoft hasn’t left its users in the lurch. This new program is called Windows Live Mail; it’s actually not new since I have been using it for over an a year now (on Windows Vista). By the way, I bought a new VAIO laptop with Windows 7 and it came with this email client. If yours didn’t, download Windows Live Mail for free from the Microsoft web site.
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Filter Windows Live Mail spam

My OS is XP. I am about to have Windows 7 installed. I’ve discovered Outlook Express will no longer be available. I have 5 email addresses; one with Tiscali, one with Electramail, three with Googlemail. At the moment, all incoming emails are bounced into Outlook Express; some being caught by my free spamfilter, SpamJab.
MY QUESTION:
With Windows Live Mail, will I still be able to filter my incoming emails into one place now that Outlook Express has been discontinued?
If you have time to respond to my query, please explain in words of one syllable as I am an inexperienced computer user!
Flint Quoin

As Flint has correctly mentioned, there is no Outlook Express on Windows 7. Actually, there is no native email client on the latest operating system. Microsoft, however, recommend that people use Windows Live Mail.
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Where can I find the latest version of Outlook Express?

I have all my emails in Outlook Express on my old computer. I purchased a new computer and looks like the software is not loaded. Where can I find the latest version of Outlook Express? Any help would be much appreciated.
Renee

I hate to be the bearer of bad news. Unfortunately, the development of Outlook Express has been stopped – the last version of the email client was 6.

Now for some good (better?) news. Though Outlook Express is long dead, Microsoft hasn’t buried it. The company released a replacement for the popular program on Vista in the form of Windows Mail which was the default email client on that operating system.
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Don’t remember my Yahoo account – email address and password

I don’t remember my Yahoo account – the email address or my password. I have not used Yahoo since it was installed but would like to start using it now.
Marilyn Eberle

Quick answer: If you don’t remember the Yahoo account, it means it the email address was hardly ever used, if at all. I suggest you simply get a new Yahoo email address. Yes, it’s that straightforward. And don’t fret over the account that you’ve lost as the Yahoo! service will delete it due to inactivity after about 120 days.
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Add MP3 song on web page

AudioPlay from StrangeCube.com lets you add an MP3 song on a web page and is so simple and customizable that even people with the most basic web development skills can use it. But before I tell you all the fine details, click on the small ‘play’ symbol below to hear a song.
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Forward emails from Outlook Express

I have a message rule set up to forward all mail sent to our business email address on to my wife’s email account on her computer. The problem is that the email she receives has my account as the “Sender”, and it does not contain the email address of the original sender. Is there any way that she can receive these messages as “Forwarded from me”, rather than From me?
Tom Morgan

As Tom already knows, the easiest way to automatically forward emails from Outlook Express is to use Message Rules. This useful feature of the email client is also available in Windows Mail Vista and the new Windows Live Mail programs. To create a Outlook Express message rule for diverting emails to others, you have to first specify the Condition/s (yes, there can be multiple) and then select the “Forward it to people” Action. – check the screenshot below.
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Stop spam on WordPress blog

I created a ‘blog section’ on this web site a month back. WordPress was an obvious choice because I could install it in less than a minute via the Fantastico script library in the control panel provided by my web hosting service.

As the traffic to the blog section increased, my mailbox was flooded with spam comments. I had earlier been able to curtail spam from the other pages of the site using reCAPTCHA on the feedback forms. Could I use the same to stop spam on this WordPress blog? As luck would have it, I found the reCAPTCHA plugin for WordPress. So if you too are fed up with spam on your blog, here is what you need to do.
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Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail: Windows 7

If I upgrade to Windows 7 from XP I lose Outlook Express and have to use Windows Live Mail. Will everything I have in my Outlook accounts be transferred over to Live Mail or will I lose what I have saved? I have many, many emails and information I have saved that I want to retain.
Barbara Graae

The excitement of purchasing and using a new computer is generally dampened by a flood of questions that come to mind when the package finally is opened and the system is set up. The most troubling issue is often related to email, especially how to transfer email from the older computer to the new one. And Microsoft hasn’t been of much help because they have been changing default email clients faster than releasing new versions of their Windows operating system.
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