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Comment on Top 10 Annoyances in Windows Live Mail by VanguardLH

VanguardLH — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:15:19 +0000

Have hit many, MANY snags with WLM. First, it doesn’t use a separate database for each newsgroup. The result is that a single message store file is used to record what messages you have downloaded (and e-mails) and this severely slows updating and searching the one database versus the much smaller ones. Also, WLM now actually creates folders on the hard drive for the newsgroup folder and puts files under them for each message. File-based permission is easily circumvented so this degenerates the security of having a database file that could be password protected instead of using text files. WLM is much slower than OE in downloading just the headers. WLM is also much slower in exercising its rules. It takes 6 times longer to run the same rules in WLM against the same number of posts as it does in OE. I don’t have that much time to waste when there are over half a million posts that have been downloaded for a group because of a long retention (and I may want those old posts so limiting the header download to, say, 1000 messages is not wanted nor does it work since the messages are not in ascending numerical indexing order when retrieved from the server, anyway). Rules that WLM’s install imported from OE do not always work. For example, a rule in WLM to color highlight your own posts will only work if you search on your name, not on your e-mail address. So a rule that highlights your own posts using a color will work if you specify in the From clause in the rule but not if you use . If you remember to uncheck everything but “Mail” in the get.live.com site when you only want to get WLM installed, you will still have to go to Add/Remove Programs to get rid of the Windows Live Signin and Windows Live Setup programs (which run as additional processes all the time even when WLM is not running).

Comment on Microsoft Needs the Community’s Help by Adam Reyher

Adam Reyher — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:20:57 +0000

exneo,

Perhaps you should educate yourself on my stance on open source software before you comment. After, all, being on the support team for phpBB for 4 years holds no merit, does it?

I’m a realist. I pay for stuff that’s good quality. I could honestly care less whether it’s open source or proprietary. It irks me that you would be so quick to bash me.

- Adam

Comment on Microsoft Needs the Community’s Help by exneo

exneo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:48:26 +0000

Hey man I can’t stand YOUR ignorant pro propeitary rederick. Why pay for vista if ubuntu is just as good? Sorry but its the truth.

Comment on Top 10 Annoyances in Windows Live Mail by CAR912

CAR912 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:26:18 +0000

About point #5, you can use ctrl+shift+f to open the traditional find dialog, there you can use all of the familiar fancy searching features. It is annoying though that you can’t seem to get rid of their “Find a message” search bar that takes up its own line.

Comment on Top 10 Annoyances in Windows Live Mail by cpemma

cpemma — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:22:13 +0000

“opened the image in Irfanview (set to open original size), copied, pasted into the mail.”

Bad news is I discover it’s pasted in as a bit-map, making a rather large size to send/receive…the annoyance remains.

Comment on Top 10 Annoyances in Windows Live Mail by cpemma

cpemma — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:49:07 +0000

“there is absolutely no way to insert an image into an email with its original dimensions intact.”

I found one way - I opened the image in Irfanview (set to open original size), copied, pasted into the mail. Same trick worked C&P from Paint Shop Pro so give it a try with your favourite image viewer.

The end result was clearly sharper than my best side-by-side attempts to match sizes, so I suspect Live Mail is adding some extra compression with the “official” method.

Comment on Top 10 Annoyances in Windows Live Mail by cpemma

cpemma — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:41:55 +0000

“With all it’s new features for images/photos there is absolutely no way to insert an image into an email with it’s original dimensions intact. WLM insists on resizing it thus severely degrading the image quality.”

A major annoyance I’ve just discovered. Search for a solution led me here.

The images are screen grabs of utility readings, at any departure from true size print is slightly fuzzy; not good. Yes, I can attach them, but then comments are separate to the image.

Another annoyance - I use five outgoing “accounts” identical in every respect bar “From” field (from me (real name), from wife, from both of us, from club secretary, from cpemma) and check one catch-all incoming; easy in OE, but Live Mail insists on showing them all on screen.

For all the fancy GUI and added security of the storage system, I prefer the OE way.

Comment on Tips for Keeping Vista Running Smoothly by Ronatola

Ronatola — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:58:57 +0000

great tip for using my 4 processors on boot - thx.

Comment on Answering Zune Questions by Bobby Yamada

Bobby Yamada — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:51:41 +0000

Adam,

I don’t know if you’ve addressed this before but if you can explain it would be very appreciated.

I just bought my first Zune 30 last week, and noticed immediately that there is a faint but noticeable sound between each track which is quite annoying when listening with complete external silence. I contacted Zune support and was told the unit is defective. I sent it back to Amazon and today recieved the new replacement - but same exact problem. Called Zune tech support again and they will now send me a replacement under warranty. I worry though that the problem will exist on this new one too. Do you know what’s causing this?

Thanks, bobby

Comment on Top 10 Annoyances in Windows Live Mail by darksentinel

darksentinel — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:11:46 +0000

Unfortunately MS is pushing it because of Vista. I’ll expound on THAT piece of you know what in my own blog at a later date. It’s suposed to be the replacement for OE, and does a very poor job at it. As I use Outlook for my email application, for me WLM is used as my newsreader. My list pertains mostly to that side of it.

Rules: Parameters are limited, and cannot be defined as precisely enough to be truly useful.

Views: Same problems that pertain to the rules. I want to be able to set the views up like I want to. Not the way that MS wants me to.

Connector for Outlook: Breaks the rules I have set up.

Remove options that were useful in OE: Block sender in OE was great! Blocked that particular sender, AND killed any messages posted by that user.

The only additions that are moderately useful is the ability to bottom post(anyone that does newgroups KNOW how annoying it is to break the flow of the message by posting at the top), and the Safety Options.

Once again MS is forcing us to do things the way THEY want us to, not the way WE want to…:(

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