Windows Live Mail Desktop issues.....

[bubba]

Ok, for the life of me can't figure out why M$ did this, but if you have an XP box and install Office 2007 it dumps the spell check dictionaries for Outlook Express. They know this and could careless http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974 those boofed are English (US & UK), Spanish, and German... the French are ok.

Now you asking how did I run across this... WELL... buddy decides that he wants a new PC, pays for the XP retrograde, but still gets Office 2007. Gets all his crap moved from old to new, messages, message rules, contacts, ect.. gets a couple days into this and notices that the spell checker is not working the way it should.

Brings the box to me.

I tell him just use Outlook, he says "no can't use that, don't like the way it makes me open every pic attachment in an email"

ok, what about Thunderbird, "tried it, hated it".....

This point I'm ready to tell him to get bent and someone sticking their head in my office suggest Windows Live Mail. So we try that.

Works fairly decent, looks like a stripped down Outlook but shows images in emails the way he wants.

The rub, on installing it pulls everything (rule, contacts, messages) in on its own. He had a pile of message rules set up in OE6 that WLM pulled in. Well one he wants to change some of them, and for the life of me I can not find where this can be done.

So anyone mess with this? know where to edit this?

[bubba]

Never mind.... stumbled onto the answer.

By default the main menu toolbar is hidden, which is separate from the ribbon menu bar, why have both

Leave it to M$ to take something that works and !@#$ it up.