Home page for Windows Mail
Posted by admin on Jul 26th, 2006
I just got Windows Vista and Windows Mail is on it rather than Outlook Express, same thing really, but my question is in Outlook Express you had a home page of sorts and it would tell you how many messages you had and it had a side bar with tips. Windows Mail does not seem to have it and I don't like who sent me emails showing on my desktop when opened. Is there a way to get the home page? Thanks, Denise
Jul 27th, 2006 at 02:20 pm
I think Windows Mail always opens to your Inbox by default. The only thing that's similar to the old home page is clicking Local Folders at the top of the navigation pane. But I don't recall seeing any option to make that open by default. There may be some other way around it. What don't you want to see when you first open Mail? Just not current messages, no messages at all, or just the sender addresses? "Dee"
Jul 30th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
It's amazing how resistant people are to change! ;)Just think how much more productive you'll be by immediately being able to read and respond to messages. After all, that is the purpose of an email program.FYI, Microsoft does studies of how people actually use their programs, and the findings often get incorporated in the next version of that program.Gary VanderMolen "Dee"
Aug 3rd, 2006 at 07:41 am
LOL I'm pretty sure the reason they had it go straight to the Inbox was because in XP they got 8,543,435 messages like this:HOW CAN I MAKE MY OUTLOOK EXPRESS SHOW INBOX WHEN I FIRST IT OPEN WHAT AM I DOING WRONG PLEEEEEEEZZZZZZZ HELPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!! "Gary VanderMolen"
Aug 8th, 2006 at 06:14 pm
That was removed in WinMail. You can't go to an opening page like that anymore.steve"Dee"