Vista - window mail

I get error went senting link or doc. ? the wizard pops up and wants me to
set up window mail. I use 2 other emails. Do I have to set up window mail?
and if i do what happens to my other accounts? I do not want them going into
window mail account. So how can I set up my new computer to let me send a
link or doc?

Which 2 other emails do you use? There are two types (for the purposes of
this discussion) of email in the world: local client and web-based.
Outlook Express, Windows Mail, and Outlook are local clients (they run on
your computer); Hotmail and Yahoo Mail are web-based. You will not lose
anything in your Web-based accounts, because they don't reside on your
computer, they reside on a server somewhere else. You probably will not
lose any local data if you set up Windows Mail because even if you
uninstalled a local email client, the data store folder would stay in place.
On my new Vista machine, Windows Mail did not pop up as it did on yours. I
set it up and then imported my data from my Windows XP machine's Outlook
..pst file. I did not lose anything; I could still run my old Outlook or
Outlook Express, with my same old data in place. Then I found a better way,
thanks to the wizards on this newsgroup:
If you are wanting to run your Web-based accounts on a local client, the
best way is to download and install Windows Live Mail. It is much better
than Windows Mail; you can run as many accounts as you want.
Bottom line is you must be careful and know what you are doing when you try
to import/export email data; it's hard to cover all the little problems and
techniques in a brief message. If you know anyone nearby who is good on
computers that can assist I would recommend that method.
I hope this helps you.
Pete

"jackie" <jackie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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thanks,

hotmail and yahoo are who I use.

if I set up window mail, do I have to combine them. Can I just leave them
as they are? will the window mail be the default? right now when I click
internet the yahoo home page comes up therefore that's my main email. I want
to leave this as such. and login into hotmail/window live when i want to
read them. I do not want all email coming to one account. Is this possible?
only reason I was setting it up is to sent documents or link from internet
through email contacts.
"William Peterson" wrote:

Hotmail won't work with Windows Mail. You may want to download and
install Windows Live Mail, which will:

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

WLM will use a separate set of folders for each account. It makes itself
the default email program.

Yahoo in the US costs extra to work with either of them:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mai...op/pop-35.html

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mai...op/pop-08.html

"jackie" <jackie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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