Thread: Just for fun!

"set up in the past and then to make operate like O.E. 6. "

"I had to really work to make it look anything like the Windows Address Book" (You meant XP, of course)

These two aspects were not actually a consideration in my post. I was only referring to Live mail. If your "customers" wish to continue using OE or something similar, then Thunderbird is the better option.

"Well, it may be simple for you, but not for everyone, especially the novices"
Food for thought there. I would not say it was simpler for the novice to get Windows mail running in 7 or 8, than to install Live Mail.
After reading this post, I started a LIve Mail install from scratch.. Apart from putting in my email addresses in, the op took 2 minutes, without interaction from me, except for the initial mandatory agreement.

Contacts? Not sure where you are going with that. "tales from the crypt" ?? I have had to edit and squash my Live picture, to conceal private info, but the essence is there.

Twice this past week, I've had to install new (Windows 7) computers for customers who had been using Windows XP for the past ten years, and Outlook Express 6 for their email, along with the Windows Address Book.

So, I activated 'Windows Mail' and set it up to look like their old familiar O.E.6
Then I saved their XP address book as a CSV file and imported it into Win-7 "Contacts". Again, I did some adjusting to make that look as much like the Windows Address Book as possible.
It was all totally acceptable to my two customers and they thanked my for my efforts.

It's nice, to make people happy.

Cheers Mates!


* So far, I've not been able to activate Windows Mail in Win-8. So Thunderbird gets the job.