Windows Live Mail and Vista integration
Patrick
I use Vista Ultimate and have some suggestions concerning Windows Live Mail.
I installed beta2 and am very pleased with how it generaly works and looks.
What I do think is absolutely a dubious feature is that it has it's own
addressbook.
The addressbook of Windows Live Mail copies the entries from the Vista
Contacts folder.
This way I end up with 2 Contact collections to maintain!
In the Vista Calendar invitees are selected from the Vista Contacts.
In Windows Live Mail people one uses Contacts from Windows Live Mail.
This is poor integration. If the data of a contact changes I have to edit 2
contacts. One in Vista Contacts and one in Windows Live Mail Contacts.
Futhermore....... once I installed Windows Live Mail it imported my mail
from Windows Mail and now I have 2 sets of mailstore of both over 200MB on
my Vista disk.
As I understand.... in Vista Windows Mail is also indexed in the Windows
search function. Does this also happen with Windows Live Mail?
If so, I will end up with double results if I search!
Again.... poor integration.
Why not use the Vista Contacts folder for the Windows Live Mail contacts?
Why not use the Windows Mail mailstore for Windows Live Mail?
This would be far better. Not only better.... Also very possible since file
formats are or appear the same.
Please MS Live developer team, think this over and make the change.
Grtz,
Patrick
Patrick
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For those of you who just want to use Vista Contacts and don't like the
integration of Windows Live Mail contacts and Vista contacts, you can try
this little trick. This also avoids creation of contacts unnecessary at
"C:\Users\<your-user-name>Contacts" and
"C:\Users\<your-user-name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live
Mail\Contacts" folders and having them at-sync.
- Remove "<your-email-address>" and "Default" folder from
"C:\Users\<your-user-name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live
Mail\Contacts" folder
- Fire up Command Prompt in administrative mode and navigate to
"C:\Users\<your-user-name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live
Mail\Contacts" folder
- Create a symbolic link (directory) called "Default" to your Vista contacts
folder: mklink /d Default "C:\Users\<your-user-name>\Contacts"
- Fire up Windows Live Mail, create a new e-mail, type your contact e-mail
addresses and pat yourself at the back for the success :)
Let me know if it works for you.
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The groups as used in Windows Live Mail are empty when opened in Vist
Contacts, probably because Vista Contacts collects the groups in a different
manner.
If the group thingy is fixable this might just be a nice solution for the
Windows Live Mail developers to get Windows Live Mail better integrated with
Vista Contacts and therefore Vista.
Another solution would be to just use the Contacts in the Vista user profile
as the contacts for Windows Live Mail without any linked folders.
What still needs attention is the Windows Mail store that remains on the
harddrive alongside the Windows Live Mail store.
Why not let Windows Live Mail use the Windows Mail store? or like in the
quick fix used for Contacts here, link to the Windows Mail store?
Patrick
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Richie
workaround a try, but it seems as though it should be unecessary. Windows
Live Photo Gallery did a better job cleanly of replacing the Vista one.