Vista mail and MS Office

Velocity

We just recently installed Office Ultimate on a Vista home edition pc.
Now our regular Vista Mail program is gone and Outlook is installed.
Anyone know the name of the old mail exe file, we lost all out emails that were on the system, but i'm told if we did a search for the old exe file we could open it and retrieve those emails.

kryyst

Is it not Outlook Express? Also normally when you install outlook the first time you start it out it detects any existing Outlook Express programs and asks you if you want to import the data.

stoopid

C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe

primesuspect

Kryyst: Vista no longer uses outlook express. It's called Windows Mail now, it's a different beast altogether

kryyst

Ahhh, I honestly didn't know that. The few vista machines I've had to deal with have been clean installs for work and the first thing I do is throw MS Office on so I've never even had to take a look at what Vista uses for a Mail Client, I just assumed. My bad.

Came across this

No, it's not a .PST, nor is it an OE .DBX. The simplest method is to
install Outlook 2003 on your Vista PC, then use WM to export the messages
and Outlook 2003 to import the addresses. If Outlook 2003 is on an XP
machine, drag all the messages out into a folder on your hard drive; they'll
all have the extension .EML. Copy these to the XP machine and drag them
into Outlook Express folders as required. From there, export messages to
Outlook from OE and import addresses from Outlook. Note that, whatever
method you elect to use, both Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express (or Windows
Mail) must be installed and functional on the machine used to do the
transfer.

stoopid

Looks like M$ is complicating things such that they want to force people into Vista AND Office 2007. No surprise there.

muddocktor

Heh, I'm using Office 2000 on my laptop with Vista. It does everything I need it to do, so why spend money for a newer, more bloated version with features I'm not missing anyways.