I want Windows Mail to work in Win-10

I'll need some serious Programmer Help for this one.

Back in Windows 98, and Windows ME, and then in Windows XP, I used Outlook Express to handle my email. I had it set to run on boot and display all my email immediately. It was neat, clean, simple and just what I wanted. I'd turn on my PC, and within seconds my email was on my desktop.

So along came Windows Vista, and Outlook Express morphed into Windows Mail which was Outlook Express on Steroids. But it worked great. I still use it today, on my Windows 7 PC, after some tweaking.

Then I upgraded to Windows 7 and "Aw Shucks!" Windows mail no longer worked, even though it was still installed with Windows.
The fix was to just copy all the Windows Mail files from Vista, over to Win-7 and it worked again.
That even worked with Windows 8.1.

Then along came Windows 10, and the old fix for Windows Mail would no longer work. Grrr!

So what I need, is for some really good programmer to find a way to make the old "Windows Mail" to work in Windows 10.

I'm not completely without an email program on Win-10.... I use O.E. Classic, which I can use, for FREE, but to have a Spell Checker and a few other little features, which I would enjoy, I have to pay $24.95 for the Pro version of the program.

The one thing that MS messed up, so Windows Mail would not run in Windows 7, was the msoe.dll file. With such a simple solution, I'm thinking that some smart programmer could figure out a way to make Windows Mail run from within Windows 10. Eh?

I'd really love a solution to this problem..... either publicly or privately.

Thanks Mates!
TM

People can be touchy about not having their question answered, and so I'm offering this as a perspective vs. a solution. If the OP doesn't like this advice, you were warned.

By switching from 3 decades of Apple to Windows 10 -- I took the opportunity to introduce some pragmatic practices.

In regard to email I tried to make Windows 10 Mail behave like Apple's email client. What a pointless venture that was since one has been refined over a decade and other was brand new. All the more weird when I realized I, like most people, use Gmail.

The reason why I never used the Gmail web page is that it looked like a museum piece. "Don't fix it if ain't broke" sounds cute, but really, until recently it looked like it was from 1994. It said "You've got mail!". Still -- I saw signs at Google that they were aware of this and they've been slowly bringing the look, feel, and functionality into the present.

Why am I going on about this? By using Gmail on the web -- I can use iOS, Android, Windows old and new, and any Mac OS. This adapting issue vaporizes. I also have some disposable Yahoo accounts -- which I use -- online. My syncing headaches are history. By saving these pages as 'web apps' -- they even feel local to me.



Is using the web client that bad a solution for you? (Don't get me wrong, it can be in the right circumstances.) But do you see what I mean? Don't hire programmers. Use the free ones already working for you.

Check post #8 here.
Live Mail 2012 Screwed Up After v2004 Update

How to reinstate WinMail onto Windows 8 or Windows 10 | Windows 8 Help Forums

Additional options for E-Mail that may be of interest:
SeaMonkey browser includes an E-Mail Client
The SeaMonkey(R) Project
OE Classic, a lot like the old Outlook Express
OE Classic - Easy to use Outlook Express replacement
eM Client
eM Client | The Best Email Client for Windows and Mac

pissant said:

That's a brilliant link Ex_Brit and the information contained worked a treat. I now have a working Windows Mail on Windows 10 V1909 and I also see it also works with the new current v20H2

Thank you Ex_Brit
Thank you endeavor
10/10

You're welcome. All the best.