Windows Mail

Endeavor,
Thanks for your reply & all your past help in my keeping WinMail going until this Build 1709 came out & broke it for good. My tower has Win 10 Pro Build 1703 on it which I've got Updates Delayed. However, my laptop has Win 10 Home (reverted back to Build 1703 with WinMail re-instated) and set as a metered connection but on next Restart 1709 will get installed again, sigh. Yes, I've had to re-instate WinMail many times since installing Win 10 however to me it's been worth the trouble & only wish I could continue doing that. . I'd had to re-instate WinMail so many times, I'd got to where I no longer needed to use the tuts. But looks like no way now after 1709.
Again, thanks for your past help........................Bill

Endeavor, since I've rolled back to 1703 from 1709, would it be possible on my Win 10 Pro & Home PCs to roll back to Build 1607 (understanding I'd have to re-instate WinMail & disabling Updates in Servicing) by clicking on the 1607 link in your tut or do it as I did for 1709 to 1703 from within Win 10? I to don't need anything in 1703.
Thanks again...............Bill

Well you know me being a big proponent of partition imaging. Creating a partition image before each version change or major update, and save the OS versions backups for years and so can go back to any point in time. I never use the rollbacks, don't like the baggage and file size of Windows.old folders, etc, and prefer to restore the partition image itself. Anyway sorry for digressing, but I take it you don't use imaging software, and so with what you did, I think, you can only go back one version; I've forgotten so would have to research a little but I'll let you do that instead. Also minor things maybe but your Home versions have some limitations over your Pro version, for the active user.

It may just be easier for you just to stay with 1703 if you can't, no problem, and I wouldn't blame you if you don't want to bother with the time/hassle with a fresh install ..but of course much better to do a fresh install but then again if you have yours built up with lots of things installed, then it's a p.i.t.a. to have to reinstall it all again I know.

Just stay with 1703 if you prefer then.

That's why partition imaging is so darn excellent, fast, accurate, and easy, with unlimited possibilities at your fingertips to go back in time as far as you want, in just minutes, to as far back as you had saved backups.

Endeavor, sorry slow getting back to you, been fighting flu bug all week. Anyway, I had a bad experience with partitioning a few years ago thus got it resolved with new PC with Windows 7 subsequently upgraded to 10. My tower PC has Windows 10 Pro Build 1703. I've deferred updates for 365 days.
Might there be an easy way you can talk me through a partition on it (has 1 TB Hard Drive) so that I can put Build 1607 with WinMail on it for strictly email and let 1703/1709 got their merry way on C: ? I suffered a stroke 22 years ago so getting my head to wrap around some things is hard. I've been working with PCs since 85 when they had no hard drives. Had the 1st PC in an office at a nuclear power plant which eventually led me to setting up a LAN all the way through Windows 3.1.
Well, enough of that. You know by now my passion for WinMail so any help if any, would be much appreciated. If you think this is beyond my abilities, I understand. BTW, I have Office 2016 with Outlook on my tower PC. My laptop is to old to think of partitioning & slow & it's Windows Home rolled to the allotted 1 time to 1703 but next restart will install 1709 thus I'll lose WinMail forever on it. Again, thanks for your insight, comments, and past & present help.......................Bill
PS: Have a Blessed day.

I too struggled with the loss of Windows Mail after Windows Update killed any chance of it being re-instated. I needed something that looked & functioned like Windows Mail with the ability to have 'Local Folders' & therefore a hard copy of some emails kept on my hard drive. After extensive searching & testing i can now recommend Mozilla Thunderbird as a suitable replacement. You can of course, stick with Win 10 1703 but is it a good idea to have an out of date operating system? I think not.

Check it out & let me know what you think.......

enigma101 said:

Mozilla Thunderbird as a suitable replacement. You can of course, stick with Win 10 1703 but is it a good idea to have an out of date operating system? I think not.

+1.

I found an email client OE Classic which is free for 2 accounts, $24.99 unlimited. Anyway, OE Classic is much like Windows Mail predecessor Out Express. Only problem I see with it is you can't use Outlook Express' Address Book (*.wab) or Windows Mail Contact List . But I did have to use comma separated values (*.csv) to setup an Address Book in OE Classic. I did import my accounts (*.IAF) & my Windows Mail email (*.eml) into OE Classic and it is so much like the old Outlook Express we had in Windows XP which became Windows Mail in Windows Vista. Be nice if we could have Windows Mail again.

Billg226 said:

I found an email client OE Classic which is free for 2 accounts, $24.99 unlimited. Anyway, OE Classic is much like Windows Mail predecessor Out Express. Only problem I see with it is you can't use Outlook Express' Address Book (*.wab) or Windows Mail Contact List . But I did have to use comma separated values (*.csv) to setup an Address Book in OE Classic. I did import my accounts (*.IAF) & my Windows Mail email (*.eml) into OE Classic and it is so much like the old Outlook Express we had in Windows XP which became Windows Mail in Windows Vista. Be nice if we could have Windows Mail again.

I did try OE Classic, but the problem is, as you said the free version only let's you use 2 email accounts (i have 5) and many people have more accounts than this. Thunderbird is free, you can use any number of accounts AND it is visually very similar to Windows Mail.