Classic skin.

I use XP with a classic skin. Is there any way to get rid of that Vista Aero
skin that comes with Windows Live Mail.
Julian.

I'm not terribly sure what a Vista Aero skin is, but I should think
maximizing the window is about the best you can do. This has the
additional advantage of telling you which folder you're viewing,
which can otherwise be a bit of a challenge. You could also change
the colour to something like #006AFF to approximate to XP blue.
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Noel

"Julian" <NOSPAMusenet555@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uRR8#I1tIHA.4476@xxxxxx

"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:euvLMv1tIHA.5096@xxxxxx ?

Turning off the Folders pane (e.g. switching to its
"compact" view does that for me:

Newsgroup and account show up under the otherwise
useless and unused (except when accidentally typing
too many letters or too fast in other contexts)
"Find a message" input box.

BTW even when I maximize the (WLMail main application)
window I don't see that extra line under the Find box
so it must be a "feechur" unique to the "compact" folders
view . (WLMail's alternative to OE's much more functional
and useful Folder bar?)

ICIM my compact folders view shows only my Outbox
which may be why the newsgroup and account names
get shown separately like that...

Nope. I just switched from my Newsgroups tab to my
Mail tab where Outbox is my only (unexpanded) item
in both views and the (then redundant) line appears
only in the compact view there too.

Are you using a compact folders view too?
Otherwise I can't imagine how you could find an advantage
from maximizing the window. Perhaps that line disappears
if you have your Reading pane on and vertical and too big?...
Ah yes; it gets chopped on the right but expands slightly
when the window is maximized. How useful! ; ]


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"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Ou#7BE3tIHA.5580@xxxxxx You're quite right, of course. I always have the folder pane
uncompacted, ever since they listened to reason and started
right-justifying newsgroup names (although they should have made
these user-definable).
I have the Reading pane at the bottom; if the folder I happen to be
viewing scrolls off the screen and the window is not maximized,
there's no indication anywhere of which folder that might be.
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I can't believe you've given up on Find a message. I use it all the
time and find it extremely useful. There is some characteristic of
the Store folder in its default location that renders it invisible
to some WDS installations; I've asked the WDS people what this might
be, but they don't know. Move your Store folder to a known indexable
location (like the Documents folder) and I bet it'll start working
for you, too.
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Noel