Hi, PvdG42.
Yep! You may think that WLM has banished WM, but it only deleted WM's
shortcut and icon. The program is still there. Just click Start | All
Programs | Windows Mail. You can recreate the icon and shortcut, if you
want to, in the usual ways.
WM and WLM will happily co-exist. Each will maintain its own Message Store.
I recommend that, in each program, you go to Tools | Accounts and select
each of your email accounts (don't bother with news; they use different
rules). For each account, select Properties | Advanced and be sure that you
have it set to Leave a copy of messages on server. This way, after you run
WM and download all your mail, you can then run WLM and download them again
into the WLM message store. I set the "delete after ___ days" to 14 days;
so long as I run WM at least every couple weeks and collect my mail, my WM
database will be complete if I decide to go back to it after trying WLM.
(Not likely; I've been running WLM - starting with the beta - since May and
I don't expect to revert to WM.)
Be sure to preserve your Sent Items from each program. WM doesn't even know
about mail sent from WLM - unless it is quoted in some Reply in future
incoming mail.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)
"PvdG42" <pvdg@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm considering giving WLM a try, even though I'm not having any issues
> with WM.
> If I install WLM on a Vista box with WM configured and functional, can WLM
> exist side-by-side with WM?
> I realize one or the other will probably have to be the designated
> default, but if I don't like WLM, I want to be able to uninstall and go
> back to WM without hassles.
>
> Thanks for any advice you may have...