Mail options in windows 7

I have all my business emails on outlook express and now I cannot find them at all because the update has made Outlook 7 the default version. Sharon Whenever you run Outlook it makes itself the default email program. Would you like to make it your default mail client? If you check the box OE will become the default.

But any time you run Outlook it will automatically make itself the default mail client. As for the missing email, perhaps they were downloaded by Outlook and cleared from the server. In that case they should still be in Outlook. I wish to keep Outlook Express on my main XP computer and would like to access it on laptop which is Windows 7, would I need to change my e mail addresses please?

Ivy Smith, The issue is not with your email address, but with the program your computer uses to download the email and with the nature of downloading itself. Downloading email takes it off the online server and saves it locally on your computer. It can then only be accessed on another computer or device with some fancy networking or syncing. AND that networking and syncing will not be possible because Windows 7 does not support Outlook Express anymore.

Your best solution is to contact your email provider and see if they have an online solution for you so you can access your email online. This article would have been much, much more valuable if it just compared… side by side…. Download all my mail from the mail server, onto my local drive? Outlook Express does not work on Windows Vista,Windows 7 or windows 8.

The reason is that is because it is bundled with IE6 which is not compatible with Windows Vista or Windows 7. I now have Windows Mail running on both my Windows 7 and Windows 8 laptops. Andrea Borman. I hope I am not putting a whammy on my success by sharing this. I love Eudora and have been using it for over 14 years. Where is it????? Like Miss.

I tried to copy Win-Mail to the program 86 file and the regular 64bit program file. Neither one worked. So back to square one. I like Win-Vista best. It has only crashed a few times in the last five years. Copying program files from one computer to another rarely works. They normally need to be installed using the installation program.

Can you copy a program file to another computer and run it? My question is this: will I lose my work folders stacked in OE in the process of doing so? Some lost their contact list, horrors, but no mention of folders. What say you, oh wise ones?? Unfortunately, you will have to manually create those folders and move the emails to them. You can then set up your new email to use IMAP to access your emails. What is IMAP? And how can it help me manage my email? How do I move my emails from one provider to another?

Outlook Express is not available for Windows 7. You can get Thunderbird or Windows Live mail , both of which are free. I too bought a new computer , 8. I used to have Windows XP. I have Windows 7 SP1 now and there is constant receiving e-mails to the inbox from October I downloaded Incredimail, incredimail2 and incredimail2. What is going on? In either case you then installed a new email program from scratch, and it now sees and is downloading all the email from the server.

I have a number of email addresses with different providers, for different purposes: gmail, hotmail, live. Any ideas? If I send something from the internet to windows live it will open outlook rather than my windows live.

Because of faithful windows XP being dissolved, I was forced to get into windows 7. Why do I no longer have any Email available to me??? Not the real Outlook Express. Well, I have been running the Outlook Express not real for a while just like I ran windows mail on 7 for years with no problem, any program may give problems, you never know.

There are some real qualified people that install or reinstall for you if you like. But they will run. I have doubts you are running Outlook Express as well. It sounds like another program completely that happens to have the same name, created by some third party.

Perhaps you can share where you got it from? Or how it was installed? That will tell us a lot. It may or may not be a good email program. It may or may not be a reasonable replacement for Outlook Express. It may or may not come from someone we can trust.

The original crashed on me for the last time, lost years of emails in DBX files and managed to recover only some. Recently got refurbished 4K monitor, it worked perfectly on that setup in Windows 10 many older programs still have DPI scaling issues. I had Windows 7 and changed to Windows 10 when computer advised. I can no longer get my e-mail when I went to Windows I do not remember my password.

The solution is probably pretty simple. If you get your email through your internet provider a simple solution would be to contact their tech support. They will be the ones who know how to get you going again. I used OE for years with not one single problem. Not one! I was never the victim of freezes or crashes or anything else. There is beauty and smooth sailing when things are kept simple. There is nothing wrong with simple! And it has nothing to do with being a Luddite. What MS fails to do is make something we can really count on and work with, with pleasure.

There needs to be a way to make what they started out with work well, and keep with it, without making drastic changes in interface and bloating it with features that people are unlikely to use. I tried those features, it just made for more work.

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Does Thunderbird do newsgroups, the way OE does??? I dare say this will be a greater Reply. I is no fair that microsoet is taking them out in wwindows7 Reply. How is that an improvement? I feel like packing the whole lot up and dumping it at Harvey Norman, Be careful with the terminology: Outlook and Outlook Express are not the same thing. Outlook works just fine. Outlook Express is not available. The licsense does not allow for installing on replacement or other machines.

If you have Microsoft Office, you can still use Outlook for your e-mail in Windows 7. It may not be Outlook Express ,but it works much the same Reply. Hope this helps some of the users. Thank you, Ernie Reply. Double check them. You can install Microsoft Office including Outlook on Windows 7, yes. Has nothing to do with recommending. Hi Everyone I use Mozilla Thunderbird always have its better than live mail. Thanks Reply. I am using Incredimail. Try it Reply.

There are hundreds if not thousands by now. I use Thunderbird. Pete Reply. Elizabeth Thanks Elizabeth! Great Article! Accomplish more in less time New, expanded Home Page customization Break long-term goals into manageable daily tasks View e-mail, tasks, notes, and calendar windows all in a single view Customize your home page with the fonts and colors you like Monitor and manage up to four e-mail accounts Expand or collapse windows according to your needs Turn e-mails into tasks by dragging the e-mail to your Task List Includes new applications for BlackBerry Reply.

You cannot. PST files work only with Microsoft Outlook. I used Outlook and was disapointed to learn that it was no longer available. It is very very much like outlook express.

Good Luck To be clear: Outlook is still available. Outlook Express is no longer available. The two programs are not related to each other. Many computer pros such as myself intensely dislike Outlook Express and are happy to see it gone. I do wish that MS had fixed it rather than replaced it, but I can only assume that it was architected so poorly that a total replacement was the only viable cure for its many problems.

Leo — or anyone else. Does this sound right? And can I use it to get Outlook Express back? A program like Thunderbird, Outlook, and perhaps even Windows Live Mail again, a downloadable program that you run on your PC should be able to a filter email as you describe, and b work with almsot any email address you happen to have set up with yoru ISP or email provider.

But can I install Outlook Express in Windows 7? Please re-read the article, it answers this question. Unfortunately, today SP1 has ruined that option. Microsoft has spoilt our fun again. Please read the article you just commented on. It answers this question. Hi well i am using live mail in place of outlook BUT my Lenovo running Win7 is so slow when i sue live email anyone else had this?

Hi, Trend Micro suggested I update my windows so I clicked on the link it suggested and updated Windows from the Microsoft web page. In my program files I can still see a folder called Outlook express and it has icons in it. How can I get my Outlook Express back so I can use it? Thanks Sharon Reply. Is it a lost Cause?? No, they are different, yet similar email programs. What I see people react to are not the featurelists that might show up in a side-by-side comparison but the nuances of how the user interface differs and individuals personal tastes and preferences.

Thank you so Much Reply. If I send a file from windows file explorer it will open windows live. How can I get everything to go to windows live mail program.? Metro Reply. How did you get it in the past? I have Windows 8. Outlook express can be installed on windows 10 Reply. But they will run Reply. I have serious doubts. Leave a reply: Before commenting please: Read the article.

Comment on the article. If your user name is your full email address, you do not need to enter it: Windows Live Mail will automatically try this by default. Under the bottom section of the email account setup screen, 'Outgoing Server Authentication', Windows Live Mail collects information needed to send emails through your mail server:.

Most of the time, the outgoing server will be the same address as the incoming server. Port 25 is the typical port used for SMTP the protocol used to transport emails.

By default, the ' This server requires a secure connection SSL ' and ' My outgoing server requires authentication ' checkboxes are unchecked. Only check them if you know that either is required. SSL encrypts your logon information, and outgoing authentication is increasingly becoming the method of choice to prevent a mail server from being used to relay spam.

Without outgoing authentication, you can logon to any server and send emails through it, even if you do not have an account. Click the Next button: Windows Live Mail should display a successful email account setup message. After that, it will start downloading your emails from the mail server.

You will see appear in the left pane your new email account and its default folders. If you setup an IMAP account, you will also see all the folders you created on the server through a webmail service or another email client.

Setting up an email account in Windows Live Mail for new Windows 7 computers. Windows Live Mail only requires three fields of information to try to automatically setup an email account for you: Enter your email account information Enter your full email address in the first field ' E-mail address '. Windows Live Win7 Configure your email account settings in Windows Live Mail If you chose to manually configure your server settings, or if Windows Live Mail was unable to automatically detect them, you will be presented with a second screen to collect your mail server information and authentication method: Incoming Server Information Windows Live Installer Windows 7 The top portion of Windows Live Mail's email account setup screen, 'Incoming Server Information', collects the information needed to receive emails from your mail server.

Mail server and authentication In most cases, your incoming mail server 's address is mail. Outgoing Server Information Under the bottom section of the email account setup screen, 'Outgoing Server Authentication', Windows Live Mail collects information needed to send emails through your mail server: Most of the time, the outgoing server will be the same address as the incoming server.

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