I talked to my client and had him install Windows Live Mail. It copied all his folders, account and address book from Windows Mail automatically. He is going to do the Win 7 upgrade tomorrow and from what I can find around the web that should work OK, since it's an in place "upgrade" Worst case he will have to reinstall Windows Live Mail again and since it's already on the PC hopefully there will be no problems.
With other versions of Windows this wasn't an issue since the OS came with an e-mail program.
Windows 7 doesn't have a native email client, and it won't import the version of Windows Mail from Vista, unfortunately. However, from what I have found, Windows Live Mail works fine as an email application, and should be able to import settings and email messages from Windows Mail if you upgrade from Vista to 7.
The client's upgrade went without problems. Installing Windows Live Mail first was apparently the way to go. Win 7 install accepted the Windows Live Mail as an e-mail program, he didn't have to reinstall it.
Geez, you experts are scaring the bejebies out of me! I did not know the Windows OS did not have an email client. I have on order a new desktop with the Windows OS. When receive it, I will be back here asking, begging, for help!!
Geez, you experts are scaring the bejebies out of me! I did not know the Windows OS did not have an email client. I have on order a new desktop with the Windows OS. When receive it, I will be back here asking, begging, for help!!
It is not that bad. Just download and install window live mail. It looks and feels just like windows mail and as fireberd pointed out it will import all your settings from mail.
Mombodog, he did have to export his Windows Mail to a file then import it into Windows Live Mail. When he first installed Windows Live Mail it automatically copied over everything but he later found out it only copied over about half of his address book. As I had him export the address book before installing Windows Live Mail he had the address book file to import and that took care of the missing addresses.
I have an Acer laptop with Vista HP 32 bit that I have MS Office 2003 installed and use the Outlook 2003 e-mail program. I upgraded it yesterday to Win 7 HP 32 bit and there wasn't any issue with Outlook 2003. Win 7 set that as my "default" e-mail program. Actually the upgrade was relatively painless. There were two issues the compatibility scanner found that I had to correct but that was all. All the hardware and Vista drivers were compatible. The Acer enet management program was flagged as incompatible and as I have an iPod and iTunes installed I had to deauthorized the iTunes before I could install. As the Win 7 upgrade runs from Vista, rather than having to boot with the Win 7 disc, I had to fix the two flagged problems, restart the PC and then start the Win 7 upgrade from the beginning - it wouldn't let me fix the problems and continue. It took me about two hours to upgrade the laptop.
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I talked to my client and had him install Windows Live Mail. It copied all his folders, account and address book from Windows Mail automatically. He is going to do the Win 7 upgrade tomorrow and from what I can find around the web that should work OK, since it's an in place "upgrade" Worst case he will have to reinstall Windows Live Mail again and since it's already on the PC hopefully there will be no problems.
With other versions of Windows this wasn't an issue since the OS came with an e-mail program.
Thanks/Jack
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October 23rd, 2009 07:00
fireberd,
I do not know the answer to this right now fireberd but, I will find out. I have been trying to search for information.
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October 23rd, 2009 08:00
fireberd,
Windows 7 doesn't have a native email client, and it won't import the version of Windows Mail from Vista, unfortunately. However, from what I have found, Windows Live Mail works fine as an email application, and should be able to import settings and email messages from Windows Mail if you upgrade from Vista to 7.
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The client's upgrade went without problems. Installing Windows Live Mail first was apparently the way to go. Win 7 install accepted the Windows Live Mail as an e-mail program, he didn't have to reinstall it.
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October 24th, 2009 18:00
Did you get this figured out?
I just did it, you have to export the address book in Windows Mail to a CSV format, then inport the CSV file in Windows Live Mail.
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Geez, you experts are scaring the bejebies out of me! I did not know the Windows OS did not have an email client. I have on order a new desktop with the Windows OS. When receive it, I will be back here asking, begging, for help!!
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Thanks, Dale50, when I get my new puter, I will yell for you! :)
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firebred
I followed this link to put Windows Mail on my Windows 7 Machine
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=34&threadid=2332784&enter
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October 24th, 2009 19:00
no problem were here to try and help
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It is not that bad. Just download and install window live mail. It looks and feels just like windows mail and as fireberd pointed out it will import all your settings from mail.
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October 25th, 2009 05:00
Mombodog, he did have to export his Windows Mail to a file then import it into Windows Live Mail. When he first installed Windows Live Mail it automatically copied over everything but he later found out it only copied over about half of his address book. As I had him export the address book before installing Windows Live Mail he had the address book file to import and that took care of the missing addresses.
I have an Acer laptop with Vista HP 32 bit that I have MS Office 2003 installed and use the Outlook 2003 e-mail program. I upgraded it yesterday to Win 7 HP 32 bit and there wasn't any issue with Outlook 2003. Win 7 set that as my "default" e-mail program. Actually the upgrade was relatively painless. There were two issues the compatibility scanner found that I had to correct but that was all. All the hardware and Vista drivers were compatible. The Acer enet management program was flagged as incompatible and as I have an iPod and iTunes installed I had to deauthorized the iTunes before I could install. As the Win 7 upgrade runs from Vista, rather than having to boot with the Win 7 disc, I had to fix the two flagged problems, restart the PC and then start the Win 7 upgrade from the beginning - it wouldn't let me fix the problems and continue. It took me about two hours to upgrade the laptop.