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| Guest | Need to at least "disable" Windows Mail I am cross-posting this in an additional forum to solicit input. ********************************************** As an enterprise customer (using Windows Vista Enterprise), we've already selected -- as most large corportate customers would -- an email system and client. As such, I really don't understand why, just like with Outlook Express (until XPSP2), you can't remove this product. As a corporate customer, clearly we don't want our Vista users to be at all confused between mail clients and would very much like to see at least some sort of GPO that could "disable" the Windows Mail client so avoid any confusion by our less capable users. Any help/suggestions would be most graciously appreciated... and, no, I haven't combed through the incredible complexity of available GPOs for Vista yet -- hoping that if there is some sort of capability like that I've outlined above, that an expert at MS can direct me to it so that I don't have to submerse myself in the myriad of detail. Thanks in advance. |
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| Guest | Re: Need to at least "disable" Windows Mail On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:54:02 -0800, Chris <Chris@xxxxxx> wrote:
Group Policy Object Editor. I don't believe it can be "uninstalled", per se. To do this, 1) Enter "mmc<ENTER>" in the Run dialog (without the quote-marks, of course.) 2) Once the Management Console opens, right-click on "File", choose "Add Snap-in", and select "Group Policy Object Editor", and move it to the Console Root by clicking on the "Add" button on the right side of the sheet. 3) Double-Click on the Console Root (on the Left side of the sheet) to expand it. 4) Double-Click on "Local Computer Policy" (Left side of the sheet) to expand it. 5) Double-Click on "Computer Configuration: (Left side of the sheet) 6) Double-Click on "Administrative Templates" 7) Double-Click on "Windows Components" 8) Choose "Windows Mail" in the list (Let side of the sheet) 9) On its properties sheet (right side of the sheet), Right-Click on "Turn off Windows Mail Application", choose "Properties", and set the property you want for that computer. You can do this for individual users by choosing "User Configuration", rather than "Computer Configuration", in step 5 above, then following the rest of the steps. Don't forget to save your changes. Your Administrator should know how to do this much better than I. I can report that setting this policy on my computer makes Windows Mail not available to use by anyone. If you want to make it unavailable on the top of the Start Menu, follow these instructions: 1) Right-click on the Start button 2) Choose "Properties" from the Popup menu 3) Click on the ""Start Menu" tab 4) Select the "Start Menu" radio-button 5) Click on the "Customize" button 6) At the very bottom, under the "Show on Start Menu" section, select your desired mail client from the Drop-down list beside the current selection. 7) Save your changes. -- Donald L McDaniel How can so many otherwise very intelligent people screw up something so simple so badly? If you stick a computer keyboard in front of most people, they'll suddenly drop 30 points off their IQs. Much like placing a "Pork Barrel" bill in front of a politician: He'll forget all about "cooperation" the minute he counts the zeroes before the decimal point. | ||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Need to at least "disable" Windows Mail Chris, I am using vista home premium, but it cannot be so much diference that my way won't work on your os. 1. Left click on Windows Mail then right click. Choose Properties 1. at the top, find Security , click that 3. look for a box that says EDIT , click that 4. look for the heading Permissions for System , check mark the boxes under DENY Now no one can use it anymore. "Chris" <Chris@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:603DD187-DB7F-4B0A-AFC4-920F5BD43402@xxxxxx
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