Windows 7 mail help

[scooter]

Just got a new laptop running windows 7. Imported my mail and accounts from vista. Now it seperates all the mail accounts with their own inbox,draft etc. I hate it. I have 8 mail accounts and I don't want them separated. I just want everything to go into the 1 inbox and i can select what email account I want to reply from. (the way it was)

Can I get it back to the same as Vista or am i stuck with this over engineered piece of sh*t


Thanks

 

[The Ferryman]

It doesn't usually do that when using Outlook. Which email client are you using?

Regards

Bruce

 

[scooter]

I never knew it had outlook. All I could see was Windows Live mail. Can you please tell me how to switch on outlook.

 

[WigWam]

I never knew it had outlook. All I could see was Windows Live mail. Can you please tell me how to switch on outlook.

You have to buy it first, then switch it on Windows live mail is the free, toned down version of it.

 

[scooter]

So they gave it away for free as it was their standard email client right up to Vista. (which was the same anyway) now they give you a piece of sh*t and make you buy the old one!

If i knew this i would rather have bought a laptop with Vista running.

grrrrr


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[scooter]

i'm talking about outlook express. Maybe not the same as Outlook?


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[WigWam]

Outlook Express isn't available in Windows Vista or Windows 7—you can't download it or run it on either version of Windows. However, you can install an e‑mail program from another company or use Windows Live Mail—a free program that is part of Windows Live Essentials.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/download-outlook-express

 

[scooter]

Thanks for your help. I just searched for windows mail and got this:

You might have noticed that Windows Mail isn't included in Windows 7
Yes I have. You have replaced it with a piece of over engineered crock of sh*t.

Why don't you give us a choice? If it aint broke and all that. A big step backwards for me.


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[WigWam]

Not used it myself but have you considered using Mozilla Thunderbird

 

[scooter]

Excellent! Displays just like outlook express (windows mail)

Thunderbirds are go.

Thank you!


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[aZooZa]

If you have a Windows installation partition on your drive, why not try Ubuntu? You can always revert to Windows by booting the install partition later.

If you run any Windows-critical software, you can use Wine under Ubuntu, or even install a free Windows VM.

Ubuntu is free, and so is all the associated software. I don't run Windows on any computer, because it's bloated and is fundamentally based on ancient code.

The M$ machine is geared towards making one release more bloated than the previous, on the premise of a 'better' interface and user experience.

More here: http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

[The Ferryman]

On a point of history Dale, have you not got that the wrong way round, would UNIX code, on which Ubuntu is based, not have been around since before Microsoft existed?

...and we are both older then both of them! 8)

Bruce

 

[aZooZa]

On a point of history Dale, have you not got that the wrong way round, would UNIX code, on which Ubuntu is based, not have been around since before Microsoft existed?

...and we are both older then both of them! 8)

Bruce

Bruce

Unix was originally written in C, as was the C++ variant which insanely has a following. C++ is a highly obfuscated (object OOP) version of C and will never really usurp it.

The original MSDOS, upon which Windoze is based, was written to run under CP/M. M$ however, released Xenix to compete but failed miserably.

Happy to share anecdotes!

Dale