Get Windows Mail on Windows 7

I had hardly used Windows Mail on Vista. The day I learnt that it’s no longer being supported by Microsoft, I downloaded and installed their new email program (Windows Live Mail) and have been quite satisfied. But not many people share my views – to each his own. Windows Live Mail differs markedly from Outlook Express and Windows Mail in both the layout and the way it organizes messages and that has resulted in a lot of irritated users.

Anyway, I thought wrongly that Windows Mail is absent from Windows 7. Actually the program is very much there… though “hidden”. And fortunately the Vista email program can be made to run on the new operating system. People have been kind enough to post step by step instructions on how to get Windows Mail on your new Windows 7 computer.
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Download Live email

I have been using live.com as my email. I want to download my mail to my computer and work with it there … offline … comfortably. I HATE the way Live has their display set up. I find their “features” slow and cumbersome. Even though most of that is probably because I have a slow connection… and I cannot do anything about it. I have been floundering around for 2 months trying to resolve this problem. Can you give me any direction??? Thanks. (I have VISTA … ughhhhh)
Ruby

Downloading messages from an online account and storing them on your computer requires the use of an email program or an email client in geeky language. Does Outlook Express, Outlook, or Windows Mail ring a bell? These are all email programs. So which one should you use to download Live email? More »

Windows 7 Quick Launch bar

I have a brand new windows 7 computer sitting beside me. Where is the quick launch bar? I had loved this on my old Vista computer but can’t seem to find it on Windows 7. The Quick Launch bar was a really neat feature because it saved so much time (and clicking). Please don’t tell me that Microsoft has done away with it.

The Quick Launch toolbar which was present to the right of the “Start” button in many previous versions of the Windows has been removed in Windows 7! Don’t despair because the Microsoft has come up with an elegant solution. In fact, it’s so straightforward that you’ll wonder why it wasn’t implemented earlier.
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Decrease size of icons in Windows 7 taskbar

Microsoft has done away with the Quick Launch toolbar in Windows 7. The Taskbar stands up to the ‘task’- bad pun, I know… couldn’t help myself! You can place shortcuts to any program in the Windows 7 Taskbar and it works just like the Quick Launch found in earlier versions of the operating system. Obviously, the Taskbar has retained its old functionality – showing an icon of any program window that’s currently open and running on your computer.
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Set up Roadrunner email on Windows 7 – Windows Live Mail

I’ve had Roadrunner for many years. Got a new Windows 7 laptop computer and realized there is no Outlook Express. Is there a way to use Roadrunner email on Windows 7? I’ve read your other article on which you recommend Windows Live Mail. Will this work like Outlook Express?
Stacy Jones

If you’ve had Roadrunner on Outlook Express, you can easily configure the account in your new Windows 7 computer. And though there are many email programs available, I recommend Windows Live Mail for the new operating system because I use it myself.
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Set up BTInternet email account on Windows 7 – Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail is the latest email client from Microsoft and comes as the default email program on Windows 7. FYI, it can be installed on Windows XP and Vista computers too. Even though the program is based on the popular Outlook Express email client (as per Microsoft), message organization and interface of the two are quite different.

To add your BTInternet email account in Windows 7 I recommend using Windows Live Mail – you can actually employ any email client; read the last line in this post. Once the account has been set up on Windows Live Mail, you would be able to download and store email on the local computer. Multiple BT Yahoo accounts can all be added and configured in Windows Live Mail.
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Windows 7 browser program

A good friend of mine advised that I should have Firefox as the Windows 7 browser. But I am kind of used to Internet Explorer. Are there any major advantages in shifting to a different program?
Jonathan Calecas

Jonathan, I’d like to give you unbiased advice but that’s really difficult because nothing in this world is subjective! Anyway, it’s fine to use Internet Explorer as the Windows 7 browser because more than half the world employs this program to surf the web – check the web browser statistics.

Having said that, your friend is not entirely wrong and his advice holds a good bit of value.
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Use Windstream email on Windows 7 – Windows Live Mail

Because of the inadequate space available on the email accounts (just 50MB, at the time of writing), it is a good idea set up the Windstream email on your Windows 7 computer using the free Windows Live Mail program. Once this is done, you don’t need to delete messages to recover space or worry about exceeding the allotted quota, assuming there is enough free space available on your computer’s hard disk.
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Which program to read mail?

Thanks for putting up notes for people like us. A few months back, I was able to make an email address with your instructions. I have another question now. After having used the computer in the town library for months, I have finally mustered enough strength to buy one for myself. I was told it runs Windows 7 and is different from the computer in the library. Which program can read mail for me? I’m a senior citizen, not very computer savvy, and would be really like some detailed advice as to which software to install.
Steve Neu

Email accounts can be accessed with two kinds of programs – web browsers and email clients. And both these applications should already be on your new Windows 7 computer. Which one you want to use depends on the type of email account you hold and how you want to check messages.
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Change file extension in Windows 7

The name of a file on your Windows 7 computer consists of two parts. When you view files in Windows Explorer it displays only the first part, the file extension is hidden. The file extension is used to specify the file type and associate it with a program. Thus, Microsoft Word documents have the extension .doc or the new .docx.

File extensions are generally 3 or 4 characters long. Since these not displayed in Windows Explorer, users come to know of the file type by the file icon. Below is a screenshot of the music folder of my computer. Though most files are .mp3, there are some .mp4 songs too but there is no way to distinguish between the two, unless they were associated with different programs; say, MP3 files with Winamp music player and AAC (.m4a) with iTunes.
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