Vista - Newbie - WLM

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...

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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Hi
I installed WLM and am able to use either one of them. I just designated
the WLM as the default.

Sharyn Mitchell

"PvdG42" <pvdg@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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You sure can. I'm running WM and WLM, and Thunderbird.


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http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

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