Vista - arranging the layout of hotmail in my live mail?

Hello,

This is probably right there but I'm missing it. I had been using outlook
express to view my hotmail account which I post to in various newsgroups and
forums. In outlook express, I see my local folders, then my hotmail
folders and then the newsgroups I use on a regular basis.

I see my local folders (which I don't use) along with the newgroups I read
in one view but can't figure out how to add hotmail to that view. I can
flip between views and see my hotmail in one and the newsgroups in another
but I can't seem to figure out how to get both in the same view.

Thanks

You can't get email folders and newsgroups in the same view mode.
As a workaround, you should be able to see email in Quick Views
while in the newsgroup mode.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"boe" <boe_d@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23Y6Pf9%23oIHA.3860@xxxxxx

Dang! I hate when they come out with a new app or OS but remove features
available in previous versions.

Thanks for your help.

I wonder if anyone at MS ever thought - gee my old car had AC or electric
windows and they don't offer that feature any more in the new model - but
I'm OK with that because it is a new version Seems to be more and more
things from MS don't have the same features as previous versions.

"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"boe" <boe_d@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OAd6NFBpIHA.1952@xxxxxxWhat do you want boe, blood!! ? :-))


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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP : Mail.
[DTS] UK.

Nahh - but i would really appreciate it if MS thought about their
customers - e.g. if you had a gui management interface for an OS or mail
server - put it in the next one - don't try and convince me using DOS is a
step forward in management - you can have DOS commands but don't take away
the GUI. Don't have an up folder icon in one OS and take it away in the
next. Don't have a simple right click to get to some functions and take it
away in the next OS.

LAZY programming if you ask me. A lack of decent testing or LISTENING to
the testers.

Just my opinion of course.
" mac" <macknever@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I imagine the developers came out with the segregated view modes
when they noticed how 'busy' the folder list pane was with all those
account folders! The amount of scrolling you'd have to do in that
left pane would have been horrendous.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"boe" <boe_d@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OAd6NFBpIHA.1952@xxxxxx

They force me to have my local folders open which I don't use but my hotmail
ones which I do care about aren't visible? Please let me decide what is
busy and not too busy for me.

"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Adding segregated view folders messed up many things, including the ability
to use the program on 800 x 600 screens. In the old days one could get
Microsoft to recover from such blunders and at least make the new feature
something you can get rid of. These days it seems hopeless even to bother
participating in the beta test periods and giving feedback.

It sounds like Thunderbird 2 is now mature enough to be a reasonable
alternative. The beta of Thunderbird 3 is expected in the summer. That may
be a good chance to switch over.

Almost all of my favorite Microsoft programs have now been discontinued or
ruined in the past few years. It is painful to watch what is being done to
a once great company.

"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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