About three weeks ago I purchased a new laptop which came with Vista Home Premium installed. As most of you know, Microsoft has replaced Outlook Express with a new email program called Windows Mail. I normally use Windows Mail to download my Gmail email stuff, and usually do not send out any emails from the account.

But last evening I had an occasion in which I needed to respond to an email using Windows Mail. I attempted to run a spell check and received an odd message that stated my language was not supported. I went back into Tools - Spelling and it was set to English. Strange.

So I did some checking and discovered there is a glitch in Windows Mail. The fix is fairly simple.

Go into Tools - Options - Spelling and change the language to something besides English and click the Apply button. Go back and click on English and click on the Apply button. That’s it. Spell check is now working.

I hope this helps anyone who also has experienced this annoying problem.

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